Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.24.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Visual Studio Code, Eclipse and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) SPEL syntax highlighting and validation inside Java and embedded Spring Data queries.
• (Spring Boot) MySQL and PostgreSQL queries syntax highlighting and validation.
• (Spring Boot) Improvements around Content Assist, Navigation and/or Find References for @Profile, @Resource, @Qualifier, @Value annotations.

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.24.0.RELEASE

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I am excited to announce the releases of Spring Modulith 1.3 M1, 1.2.2, and 1.1.7. The former ships with the following new features:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.4 M1 and Spring Framework 6.2 M6 – GH-737
• Improvements in the documentation creation – GH-644, GH-638
• @ApplicationModuleTest can now be used outside a module folder – GH-466
• A configuration property to define the schema of the Event Publication Registry tables for JDBC – GH-685

These features are surrounded by a few bug fixes that have all been backported to the 1.2 and 1.1 generations of Spring Modulith. Here you can find the full change logs for the releases 1.3 M1, 1.2.2, and 1.1.7…

Shortly after our fifth milestone, we have released Spring Framework 6.2.0-M6. This milestone is mostly about addressing a binary backward compatibility with previous 6.x generations.

Spring Framework 6.2.0-M6 is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now, check out the detailed release notes for this version.

6.2 features recap

Check out our What's New page for details about the new features available at this point.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 39 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.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I talk to Java ecosystem legend Scott Davis

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 50 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 118 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Structured Logging
• AssertJ support for MockMvc with auto-configuration of MockMvcTester
• Improved support for Testcontainers and Docker Compose

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.8 and 1.1.2 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.8 and 3.3.2 releases, respectively.

This release includes numerous dependency upgrades.

Please see the release notes (1.0.8 and 1.1.2) for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the first Milestone for Spring Integration 6.4.0 generation.

In addition the regular bug fixes and dependency upgrades were release as Spring Integration 6.3.2 and 6.2.7.

Here are some notable improvements and new features in Spring Integration 6.4:

• The distributed LockRegistry implementations now throw a ConcurrentModificationException on unlock() operation if ownership of the lock is lost in DB.
• Since LobHandler API has been deprecated in Spring Framework 6.2 for removal, we also deprecated respective API in JDBC message store components in favor of internal byte array handling by the JDBC drivers.
• The ZeroMqMessageHandler can now also bind port.
• The subscription identifier has been improved for MQTT v5 channel adapters.
• The Reactor context is now propagate to the reply CompletableFuture.
• The ClientSession is now closed by the SftpSession…