Welcome, welcome, welcome, to another installment of This Week in Spring! You know, we've come a long way since you and I last spoke. It's April already! A new month! How bizarre. And, with the dawning of a new month, we're also more than 25% through this year! I sure hope you're paying attention. That little tidbit's blowing my mind!

Yesterday, by the way, was the first of April, and the tenth birthday of the first generally available 1.0 version of Spring Boot, released on the 1st of April, 2024. Happy birthday, Spring Boot!

Tomorrow, by the way, I'll have a brand new not-to-be-missed video on Java 22 over on our humble YouTube channel, do not miss that…

Hi, Spring fana! In this installment, I look at the amazing, just-released, Java 22!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0-M1 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Spring Milestone Repo.

This release updates all of the applications to use Spring Functions Catalog. Release notes are available:

• Spring Functions Catalog
• Stream Applications

We welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or Spring Functions Catalog - GitHub or Stream Applications - GitHub.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0-M2 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Spring Milestone Repo.

This release updates all of the applications to use Spring Functions Catalog. Release notes are available:

• Spring Functions Catalog
• Stream Applications

We welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or Spring Functions Catalog - GitHub or Stream Applications - GitHub.

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode I'm joined by Java luminaries and Apress' Beginning Spring 6 authors Joseph Ottinger and Andrew Lombardi

I am pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 1.2.6 is now available on Maven Central.

This release closes 8 issues. It is a bit off our usual cycle but we wanted to fix particular issues a give an early chance to external integrations to release against this version.

The 1.2.6 version will ship with Spring Boot 3.1.11 and 3.2.5, to be released next month.

How can you help?

If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-graphql tag.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0.1 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2023.0.1 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.1 Release Train

Based on Spring Boot 3.2.4.

See the GitHub project for all changes made in this release.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Add support for selective namespaces in Fabric8 LoadBalancer implementation (#1604)

Spring Cloud Function

• Added native support for deploying and processing WEB Workloads as AWS Lambda with sample provided here
• Fixed filter registration in WEB support for AWS Lambda
• Fixed SNapStart processing in WEB support for AWS Lambda
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

• Sam Brannen shares some good news: a null-safe Index operator for the Spring Expression Language (SpEL) is coming to Spring Framework 6.2!
• This is interesting, and a nice application of AI (do I even need to spell out "artificial intelligence" anymore?): localize applications with Spring AI
• this is a neat guide by community member Wim Deblauwe over on InfoQ: A Practical Guide to Building an API Back End with Spring Boot - version 2
• James Ward, founder of the WebJars project and a legend in his own right, invites folks to contribute feedback on the new webjars-locator-lite module, created by the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 70 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Support for CDS archives
• Base64 Resources
• SBOM Actuator Endpoint

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

NOTE: We are in the process of migrating the Spring Boot documentation to Antora. The docs for this release will be a little delayed.

Thanks to…