On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 includes 12 fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 later this week!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 is available now.

Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 includes fixes and improvements to the documentation. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 later this week!

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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to RabbitMQ engineer Arnaud Cogoluègnes (@acogoluegnes) on the new and novel in RabbitMQ

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second and final release candidate of Spring Batch 5 is now available from our milestone repository.

In this release, we worked on the following items:

• Full MariaDB support
• Native support improvements
• Observability improvements

This blog post walks through these changes in details. For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Full MariaDB support

Up until v4.3, Spring Batch provided support for MariaDB by considering it as MySQL. In this release, MariaDB is now treated as a separate database product with its own DDL script and DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've been busy this last week! I've been visiting with customers and talking to the community here in South East Asia. I was in Malaysia last week, and now I'm in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm near the end of my time here in SE Asia, which makes me sad. I'm dearly going to miss the food and the weather, but time waits for no person, and it's almost time to go home.

And with time comes a jam-packed roster of new things we can read and learn from. So, without further ado, let's dive right into it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion, legend, and prolific open source contributor Andres Almiray
• CVE Report Published for Spring Tools
• Can a Java Application Use More Memory than the Heap Size?
• JUnit – Testing Methods That Call System.exit()
• Spring Authorization Server 0.4.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.0.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Data 2022.0.0-RC2 available
• Spring Modulith 0.1 M2 released
• Have you tested your application against the upcoming Spring Boot 3? There's a ton of amazing new features arriving in this release and you should definitely be kicking the tires now. Remember: Spring Framework 6 is due in about a week's time and Spring Boot 3 is due less than a few weeks after that! And you know where to go: …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.5 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.5 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.5 Release Train

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Function

• Add support for Azure Timer Trigger in spring-cloud-function-azure

• Enhancement to AWS Function Invoker in spring-cloud-function-aws to programmatically inject function definition

• Add support for Azure Timer Trigger in spring-cloud-function-azure

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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the second Spring Data release candidate 2022.0.0-RC2. This release candidate ships with numerous fixes and a refined observability integration through Micrometer for MongoDB, Redis, and Apache Cassandra modules.

For your convenience, Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 is going to pick up this release in the upcoming days.

You can find the full release notes in the wiki. We continue looking for feedback to incorporate any last minute changes in our upcoming 2022.0.0 GA release later this month.

Finally, here are the links to the documentation of each…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Java Champion, legend, and prolific opensource contributor Andres Almiray (@aalmiray)

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC3 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC3 includes 22 fixes and improvements. This is the last release candidate expected before the general availability of Spring Framework 6.0.0 currently planned mid-November.

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