On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 5.1.0, 5.0.4 and 4.3.10 are now available from Maven Central repository.

Versions 5.0.4 and 4.3.10 are drop-in replacements for their respective previous patch releases and come with bug fixes, documentation improvements and dependency updates. You can find the complete list of changes in the release notes: 5.0.4 and 4.3.10.

This blog post is more about Spring Batch 5.1, which includes a number of improvements and new features:

• Dependencies upgrade
• Virtual Threads support
• Memory management improvement in the JpaItemWriter
• New synchronized decorators for item readers and writers
• New cursor-based MongoItemReader
• Bulk inserts support in MongoItemWriter
• New item reader and writer for Redis
• Automatic configuration of JobRegistryBeanPostProcessor
• Ability to start a job flow with a decision
• Ability to provide a custom JobKeyGenerator
• MongoDB Job Repository (Experimental)
• Composite Item Reader (Experimental)
• New documentation based on Antora
• Revamped samples
• Enhanced issue reporting guide
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Hot on the heels of Spring Framework 6.1, I am pleased to announce the 3.1 releases of Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring AMQP (Spring for RabbitMQ).

See the release notes for the 3.1.0, 3.1.0-RC1 and 3.1.0-M1 releases of each project - Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring AMQP for detailed content.

Also see the What's New documentation sections for highlights: Spring for Apache Kafka Spring AMQP.

I am pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 1.2.4 is now available on Maven Central.

This release closes 23 issues. Thanks to community feedback, there are several bug fixes, some minor improvements, and documentation updates that help us evolve 1.2.x specific features such as pagination support, and exception handling with annotated controller methods.

The 1.2.4 version will ship with Spring Boot 3.1.6 and 3.2.0, to be released later this week. As a reminder, we are not releasing a new minor version with Spring Boot 3.2, and intend to release 1.3 with Spring Boot 3.3 in May, next year…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Authorization Server 1.2.

See the release notes for complete details.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the Getting Started chapter of the reference documentation and the samples to become familiar with setup and configuration.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another epic installment of This Week in Spring! As amazing as the week's already been, it's all leading up to this Thursday - Thanksgiving day! - when we release Spring Boot 3.2! (and yes, I am very grateful). This release is stuffed to the gills with a ton of new features:

• reloadable SSL support
• the new JdbcClient and the new RestClient, from Spring Framework 6.1.
• Java 21 virtual threads (project Loom)
• Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC)
• observability improvements
• a ton of new and updated dependencies, like the newly integrated Spring for Apache Pulsar starter and autoconfiguration, the new Testcontainer support for ActiveMQ, and so much more.
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On behalf of the Spring Security team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Session 3.2.0 is generally available from Maven Central now! The 3.2 generation comes with some key improvements:

• Introduce SessionIdGenerator to allow custom session id generation
• Allow safe deserialization of Redis sessions

You can check the related documentation on the What's New section of the reference docs. This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2 GA release. We are looking forward to hearing your feedback.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.0 is generally available from Maven Central now!

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2 GA release.

Please see the release notes for more detail.

A great place to get started is the Quick Tour in the reference docs.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out open issues in the Github repository. If you have general questions, please ask on Stack Overflow using the spring-pulsar tag.

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On behalf of the Spring Security team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Security 6.2.0 is generally available from Maven Central now! The 6.2 generation comes with improvements that you can check on the What's New section of the documentation.

Spring Security 6.2 has upgraded its Spring Framework baseline to 6.1 along with Project Reactor 2023.0.0 and Micrometer 1.12.0 while requiring Java 17 as minimum platform version and supporting up to Java 21 for Virtual Threads support.

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2 GA release. We'd like to hear from you, so keep…

On behalf of the Spring Data engineering team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Data 2023.1 (Codename: Vaughan) from Maven Central! This release comes with several infrastructure themese as well as refinements in individual store modules.

Spring Data 2023.1 has upgraded its Spring Framework baseline to 6.1 along with Project Reactor 2023.0.0 and Micrometer 1.12.0 while requiring Java 17 as minimum platform version and supporting up to Java 21 for Virtual Threads support.

Virtual Threads can be used in various components by configuring an Virtual Threads-enabled Executor. Prominent examples for these components are Redis' MessageListenerContainer or Mongo's MessageListenerContainer…