On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.8 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.8 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.8 release

Spring Cloud Commons

• Spring Cloud LoadBalancer - allow chain filtering of instances based on requests (#1227 )

The following modules were updated as part of 2021.0.8:

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Elastic's Philipp Krenn, live from Spring IO 2023 in beautiful Barcelona, Spain!

Spring Shell 2.1.11, 3.0.6 and 3.1.2 are now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.11, 3.0.6 and 3.1.2 has been released and are now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 2.1.11, release notes 3.0.6 and release notes 3.1.2 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Introduction

This is a guest blog post by Gerrit Meier from Neo4j who maintain(s) the Spring Data Neo4j module.

A few weeks ago version 1.2.0 of Spring (for) GraphQL was released with a bunch of new features. This also includes even better integration with Spring Data modules. Motivated by those changes, more support in Spring Data Neo4j has been added, to give the best experience when using it in combination with Spring GraphQL. This post will guide you on creating a Spring application with data stored in Neo4j and GraphQL support. If you are only partial interested in the domain, you can…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Seoul talking to developers about the latest-and-greatest in Spring Boot 3! There's so much great stuff coming, and so much great stuff already. There are a few things I'm super excited about.

First, yesterday I did a joint presentation with my friend the one the only the amazing Trustin Lee, creator of Netty and lead of the Armeria Project over at LINE corporation. LINE is a super popular social messaging application used a lot in Korea and in Japan. It was a ton of fun collaborating with, and copresenting with, him…

I am happy to announce the release of Spring Modulith 1.0 M1. This is an important milestone for the project and the first step on the road to promote it from an experimental to an official Spring project. This means that we ship a couple of breaking changes

• The group identifier is now org.springframework.modulith (previously org.springframework.experimental).
• The Spring Boot baseline of the project is 3.1 (previously 3.0).
• The name of the actuator endpoint exposing the application module structure is now application-modules (previously applicationmodules).
• The previously deprecated configuration properties in the JDBC-based event registry have been removed.
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There's been support for Testcontainers in Spring Boot for some time now, and Spring Boot 3.1 improves it further. But first, let's take a look at what Testcontainers is and how it's usually used.

Testcontainers is an open source framework for providing throwaway, lightweight instances of databases, message brokers, web browsers, or just about anything that can run in a Docker container.

If you have used Testcontainers in the past, there's a high chance that you have been using them in integration tests:

@SpringBootTest
@Testcontainers
class MyIntegrationTests {

    @Container
    static…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 89 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 3.0.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 51 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 | …