On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.5 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.5 includes 39 fixes and improvements and covers support for JDK 16 (which is scheduled for GA today), in preparation for JDK 17 LTS in September.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases later this week.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get to so let's dive right in!

• Announcing Spring Native Beta!. This is by far the most important bit to come out of the last week! There is SO MUCH good stuff to ponder here. Spring Native is a set of hints that help GraalVM's native-image facility turn your dynamic Java code into a lightning fast, super lightweight, machine architecture-specific binary that you'll definitely want to invite to your next Docker container party. Tons of stuff just works out of the box. Native compilation is even supported on the Spring Initializr - just add Native to the selections! You can use @NativeHint…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.0-M3! You can find the complete details in the release notes and the highlights below:

OAuth 2.0

gh-8975 - Add BearerTokenAuthenticationConverter

SAML

gh-9317 - Add setMetadataFilename method to Saml2MetadataFilter

gh-9310 - Throw Saml2AuthenticationException in Saml2AuthenticationTokenConverter on deflation or decoding error

ACL

gh-9425 - Allow ACL to be owned by GrantedAuthoritySid

Kotlin

gh-9319 - Kotlin DSL extension for rememberMe

Web

gh-9387 - Improve HttpSessionSecurityContextRepository performance

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Deploy Spring Boot applications by leveraging enterprise best practices – Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture. You can get started by deploying the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture to accelerate and secure Spring Boot applications in the cloud at scale using validated best practices.

Over the past year, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios including thoughts on scaling properly, security, deployment, and cost requirements. Many of these customers…

Today, after one year and half of work, I am pleased to announce that we’re launching the beta release of Spring Native and its availability on start.spring.io!

In practice, that means that in addition to the regular Java Virtual Machine supported by Spring since its inception, we are adding beta support for compiling Spring applications to native images with GraalVM in order to provide a new way to deploy Spring applications. Java and Kotlin are supported.

Those native Spring applications can be deployed as a standalone executable (no JVM installation required) and offer interesting…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to FF4J project creator and DataStax Astra SDK engineer Cedrick Lunven (@clunven).

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Tomorrow is the day of Spring One Tour - do not miss this event! We've also got a lot to get into this week so, without further ado...

• In last week's installment of a A Bootiful Podcast, I talk Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling on API Gateways, Microservices, Spring Cloud and more
• Tanzu Observability for Wavefront (formerly Wavefront) delivers scalable observability as a service where Spring developers can build analytics-driven dashboards based on multi-sourced data including metrics, traces…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling (@csterwa) about API Gateways, Microservices, Spring Cloud, and more.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've finally managed to get my joshlong.com/feed.html page working again so if you're curious about what I'm doing, check this feed out.

We've got a really great roundup this week, so let's get into it.

• Check out our very own Mark Heckler’s new book “Spring Boot Up and Running”!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring legend Greg Turnquist on Spring Data REST, HATEOAS, CI, and so much more.
• Check out this first new installment of Spring Tips in which I revisit Spring Cloud Gateway. This episode features a long, detailed look at all things Spring Cloud Gateway and features interviews with Spring Cloud cofounder and Spring Cloud Gateway creator Spencer Gibb and an interview with Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling.
• Congrats to Jacques Chester on his new book KNative in Action
• …