Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.11.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2021-06 release (including support for Java 16) (new and noteworthy)
• early-access builds for Apple Silicon platform (ARM M1) available

reminder

• the Eclipse-based distribution of the Spring Tools 4 requires a JDK11 (or newer) to run on
• the Eclipse-based distribution ships with an embedded JDK16 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Azure Developer Advocate Rory Preddy (@rorypreddy).

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm silly stoked! This week saw the release of Spring Native 0.10.0 and it is awesome! You absolutely have to check this release out. I put together an episode of Spring Tips, the most comprehensive of its kind, introducing (almost) everything you'll need to know about Spring Native and Spring Native 0.10.0 in particular. Start here. Spring Native is awesome and this is the comprehensive introduction I wish I'd had at the start.

The next time we meet in this humble column, next week, will be June 22nd, and by then we'll have passed summer solstice - the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Native 0.10.0 has been released. It is based on Spring Boot 2.5 and GraalVM 21.1.

This release is packed with features, highlights include:

• Introduction of native testing.

• A new official Gradle plugin from the GraalVM team.

• Introduction of ahead-of-time proxies usable on classes.

It also includes 43 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Josh Long has crafted a great video to present those new…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.12.RELEASE has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 26 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 36 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes about 70 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Mikiel Agutu, technical lead for the Flyway team at Redgate software about database migrations and continuous delivery.

Hi, Spring fans! What's shaking? It's one of those weeks where, even though the thing I wanted to happen - a vacation with the family - didn't happen, what did happen - accidentally lots of free time with no meetings - has turned out wonderfully. It was all I could do to pry myself from the IDE to pull together this week's roundup, but I am glad I did! There's a ton of great stuff there. Let's dive into it.

• I love this post by the good Dr. David Syer: "Wiremock" for RSocket
• In this week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, JHipster creator and Microsoft Java Developer Advocacy manager Julien Dubois
• Kotlin 1.5.0 Release Community Event
• This is super interesting: OpenJDK on RISC-V - an update from Alibaba
• To all the readers of my little book so far: Thank you! Schiko on Twitter: "Reactive Spring" by @starbuxman is without a doubt the best programming book i've ever read. Thanks Josh! https://t.co/nAzdK4kNyn #springboot #Java" / Twitter
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