Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to Oracle Java Developer Advocate Nicolai Parlog on the latest and greatest in Java.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.4, 6.0.17 and 5.3.32 are available now.

Spring Framework 6.1.4 ships with 106 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.3, to be released next week.

Spring Framework 6.0.17 ships with 17 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.1.9, to be released next week.

Spring Framework 5.3.32 ships with 19 fixes and documentation improvements.

The releases address CVE-2024-22243 for URL Parsing with Host…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Friends, tomorrow is Valentine's day, and I love Spring. So, it's a very exciting thing indeed to be able to share this week's jam-packed roundup. Let's dive right into it!

• Spring Tools 4.21.1 is now available
• In the latest installment of a Bootiful Podcast, I talk to the good, the great Dr. Venkat Subramaniam
• In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at the new Spring AI project
• In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at the new Spring Boot Testjars project
• our friend Siva has a nice video on using Java 17 and 21 with Spring Boot and Testcontainers
• I loved working with the Flowable team to bring AOT native image support to their project, and its' finally landing
• ACM Members: the "Spring Boot in Practice" audiobook, which is a cookbook-style guide to Spring application development, is now available. …

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.21.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot, VSCode) Log Levels viewing and editing is available in VSCode for live running Boot apps if enabled on the the app via Spring Boot Actuators
• (Spring Boot, VSCode) Ability to show "Refactor Preview" in VSCode before applying the changes from OpenRewrite recipes

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early access builds available for Eclipse 2024-03 milestone builds

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.21.…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we look at the brand new Spring Boot Testjars project, which greatly simplifies standing up and reusing satellite Java-based services like other Spring Boot-based microservices or infrastructure like the Spring Authorization Server.

#springboot #java #java21 #testjars #oauth #docker #architecture #softwaretesting #microservices

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new Spring AI project, which provides convenient integrations with LLMs (like the one behind ChatGPT) and tools to support the RAG (retrieval augmented generation) pipeline.

#ai #springboot #artificialintelligence #java #graalvm #cloud #java21 #postgresql

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment the good and the great Dr. Venkat Subramaniam rejoins the show, live from the fantastic VOXXED DAYS CERN event, to talk about some of the amazing features in Java 21

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of the rip-roarin' adventure that is This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at, as usual, so let's dive right into it!

• in last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Gunnar Morling, who created the 1BRC (1 Billion Row Challenge) that asks people to - using nothing but barebones JDK Java types - load one billion rows of weather station telemetry data. This was a race to the bottom as hundreds of entries flooded in and we eventually got implementations that loaded and analyzed and processed thirteen gigabytes of data in less than 1.5 seconds. It's a very cool effort and Gunnar was kind enough to share some of the learnings we can take from the results
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at the fantastic new Spring AI…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to fellow Java Champion Gunnar Morling, and we look at how his 1BRC challenge helped the community eek out some of Java's best performance numbers