Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the core framework team, it is my pleasure to kick off the Spring Framework 6.2 milestone phase: 6.2.0-M1 is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now.

This milestone contains several enhancements in the core container, including a revision of the autowiring algorithm (e.g. for consistent generic type matching and for faster resolution of name-based matches) and a revision of singleton locking (e.g. for background bootstrapping), as well as a range of new features in Spring's testing support. Check out our What's New page for details about the new features…

The Spring Framework team has been busy reviewing the issue tracker in anger and reducing the number of opened issues. This was long overdue, with a number of issues being invalid or superseded in the meantime. This helped the team focusing on a more manageable amount of issues and we used the opportunity to look at long standing issues that we haven’t had the time to address yet.

In this post, I’d like to walk you through a collection of those relatively small issues, sometimes highly voted, that are finally available in this milestone.

Support for escaping property placeholders

Property placeholders are a way to replace a property from the environment in an arbitrary String. Assuming that customer.name is set to "John Smith" in the Environment…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.6, 6.0.19 and 5.3.34 are available now:

• Spring Framework 6.1.6 ships with 41 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.5, to be released next week.
• Spring Framework 6.0.19 ships with 14 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.1.11, to be released next week.
• Spring Framework 5.3.34 ships with 10 fixes and documentation improvements.

The releases address CVE-2024-22262 for "URL Parsing with Host Validation (3rd report)". Important CVEs on popular projects, like the original CVE-2024-22243, often get attention from the security community. We received many reports and helpful feedback about new attack variants over the last weeks. The security of Spring applications is…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I look at the excellent Spring Expression Language, an embedded language for resolving simple expressions that is built right into the Spring Framework.

We’re excited to share some great news! Spring Academy Pro will no longer require a paid subscription. It will be available here to everyone who registers a work, vocational, or educational email address.

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Spring Academy is a comprehensive online learning platform for Spring developers. Created by the stewards of the Spring portfolio, Spring Academy courses ensure that you learn the most accurate and up-to-date information, with a hands-on learning experience that allows you to apply what you've learned and gain the skills necessary to create robust, scalable, and…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Las Vegas, NV, at the moment, preparing for my part in the huuuuuge Google Cloud Next keynote. I'm so excited! And then it's off to the amazing and glorious Devnexus event! If you're at either event, please say Hi!.

• Full Line Code Completion In Jetbrains Ides: All You Need To Know
• WireMock 3.5.2 Released
• A nice article on Tracing in Spring Boot 3
• I know I've probably mentioned this, but I really dig this post: How Spring and Java Shaped Internal Developer Platforms
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Netflix's Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan on scaling Spring Boot and Spring GraphQL at Netflix
• Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0.M1 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0.m1 Available
• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look the new and novel Java 22!
• Introducing Spring AI, …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I'm thrilled to be joined by Netflix's Paul Bakker and Kavitha Srinivasan, who explain how they're integrating and evolving Spring for GraphQL in their own GraphQL stack and how they're managing, growing, and evolving thousands of services written in Spring Boot

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!