The Spring Framework 6.2 release notes provide a much more detailed look at all the new features. I won’t rehash all of them here, but here are some of the features that caught my eye:

• Improved generic type safety in auto wiring sorting.
• Smarter, more optimized Spring Expression Language expressions.
• More efficient handling of resources in web applications, as well as in the WebJars support.
• Refinements to Spring’s JMS support and STOMP-over-WebSocket support.
• Improved testing support with the new HTMLUnit dependency, AssertJ-style MvcTester for Spring MVC tests, and much improved mocked beans in tests.
• Support the concept of @Fallback beans, essentially the mirror image of @Primary beans.
• Background bean initialization.
• Improved binding of data to constructors.
• …

After half a year of development, Spring Modulith 1.3 GA has been released. It is packed with new features, improvements, and – best of all – community contributions. Let me walk you through some of the most interesting ones.

Baseline Upgrades

As usual, a new minor version of Spring Modulith upgrades to the latest releases of both Spring Boot and Spring Framework, 3.4 and 6.2 respectively. That said, we still remain compatible with the previous generations of each of them so that you can selectively upgrade to Spring Modulith 1.3 without having to the latest Boot and Framework versions.

The…

On behalf of the community, I am delighted to announce the avability of Spring Modulith 1.3 GA. After 6 months of development, the release ships with the following highlights:

• Upgrades to Spring Boot 3.4 and Spring Framework 6.2.
• Support for nested application modules and external application module contributions.
• Optimized integration test execution via a JUnit Jupiter extension.
• New deleting and archiving event publication completion modes.
• By-ID event publication completion significantly improving performance.
• Support for MariaDB, Oracle DB and Microsoft SQL Server in the JDBC-based Event Publication Registry.
• Event externalization into Spring's MessageChannel abstraction to, for example trigger Spring Integration flows.
• …

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 3.4.0 release day to those who celebrate! Today I'm joined by both Terence Lee, from Heroku, and my friend DaShaun Carter, and we talk about platforms, buildpacks, and more. #heroku #paas #buildpacks,

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.23, 3.0.18, and 3.1.14 have been released for support customers. The releases are available from https://packages.broadcom.com.

• Spring Boot 2.7.23 ships with 15 bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.
• Spring Boot 3.0.18 ships with 28 bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.
• Spring Boot 3.1.14 ships with 34 bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

The next 2.7.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x releases for support customers are planned for 3 months' time. The first 3.…

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 3.4

The highlights of the 3.4 release include:

• Structured logging
• Support for defining additional beans of the same type as those that are auto-configured
• Expanded virtual thread support
• Improved support for Docker Compose and Testcontainers
• Numerous Actuator enhancements, including info and health information for SSL certificates
• Improved image building capabilities, including out-of-the-box support for ARM
• Auto-configuration for MockMvcTester, an AssertJ-based alternative to MockMvc
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On behalf of the Spring Cloud team, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Cloud 2022.0.9 Release Train is available for support customers. The release can be found in https://packages.broadcom.com.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.9 Release Train

• This release is compatible with Spring Boot 3.0.18 and 3.1.14.
• Spring Cloud Contract 4.0.9 has dependency upgrades.
• Spring Cloud Netflix 4.0.7 has dependency upgrades.
• Spring Cloud OpenFeign 4.0.8 has dependency upgrades.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 46 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 37 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of open source support for Spring Boot 3.2.x

Spring Boot 3.2.12 marks the end of open source support for Spring Boot 3.2.x. Please upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3.x or 3.4.x as soon as possible. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Boot 3.2.x is available…