Yesterday we announced a Spring Framework RCE vulnerability CVE-2022-22965, listing Apache Tomcat as one of several preconditions. The Apache Tomcat team has since released versions 10.0.20, 9.0.62, and 8.5.78 all of which close the attack vector on Tomcat's side. While the vulnerability is not in Tomcat itself, in real world situations, it is important to be able to choose among multiple upgrade paths that in turn provides flexibility and layered protection.

Upgrading to Spring Framework 5.3.18+ or 5.2.20+ continues to be our main recommendation not only because it addresses the root cause…

Spring Tips: Brave, Bold, and Boring YugabyteDB

Engineering | Josh Long | March 31, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we dare to be boring with YugabyteDB, a distributed database that just works. It's a database that feels like PostgreSQL but scales like Apache Cassandra.

Spring Framework RCE, Early Announcement

Engineering | Rossen Stoyanchev | March 31, 2022 | ...

Updates

[04-13] "Data Binding Rules Vulnerability CVE-2022-22968" follow-up blog post published, related to the "disallowedFields" from the Suggested Workarounds
[04-08] Snyk announces an additional attack vector for Glassfish and Payara. See also related Payara, upcoming release announcement
[04-04] Updated Am I Impacted with improved description for deployment requirements
[04-01] Updated Am I Impacted with additional notes
[04-01] Updated Suggested Workarounds section for Apache Tomcat upgrades and Java 8 downgrades
[04-01] "Mitigation Alternative" follow-up blog post published, announcing Apache Tomcat releases versions 10.0.20, 9.0.62, and 8.5.78…

Spring Boot 2.5.12 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | March 31, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

The Spring Framework version in this release includes a fix for CVE-2022-22965, check the dedicated blog post for more details.

This release includes 5 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

Spring Boot 2.6.6 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | March 31, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

The Spring Framework version in this release includes a fix for CVE-2022-22965, check the dedicated blog post for more details.

This release includes 6 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes cofounder and vice president of R&D at VMware, Craig McLuckie

Engineering | Josh Long | March 31, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Kubernetes cofounder, all-around nice person, and vice president of R&D at VMware, Craig McLuckie (@cmcluck).

Spring Cloud Azure 4.0 is Now Generally Available

Engineering | Josh Long | March 30, 2022 | ...

NOTE: Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post from Sean Li, our friend at Microsoft

I am pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Azure 4.0 is now generally available. With this major release we aim to bring better security, leaner dependencies, support for production readiness and more. Version 4 represents a significant milestone in our product roadmap that we couldn’t have delivered without the collective wisdom of the Spring community and customer feedback. On behalf of the Spring on Azure product team, thank you for making this happen!

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This Week in Spring - March 29th, 2022

Engineering | Josh Long | March 29, 2022 | ...

Aloha, Spring fans, from beautiful Maui, Hawaii, where I am with my family on a bit of vacation. It's our daughter's Spring break and so we're enjoying the family time while we can get it! I wanted to take a brief interlude in between the never-enough time on the beach and all the rum to get this week's installment out for y'all, so let's dive right into it!