This Week in Spring - November 7th, 2023

Engineering | Josh Long | November 07, 2023 | ...

Hi, Spring fans!

Can you believe we've already turned the calendar page to November? Time sure is a swift developer, deploying months as if they were minor versions in an ever-evolving application. As we adjust our clocks to fall back, waving a reluctant goodbye to daylight savings time, the encroaching evening arrives with a brisk efficiency. Yes, it's dark outside, a bit too early for my liking, if I'm honest. The shortened days remind us that while we may not be in control of the celestial clock, we do have the power to harness the hours we're given. This is the perfect time to settle in…

SSL hot reload in Spring Boot 3.2.0

Engineering | Moritz Halbritter | November 07, 2023 | ...

In Spring Boot 3.2.0, we're adding the ability for embedded web servers to hot-reload SSL certificates and keys. That means you can rotate your SSL trust material without restarting your application. Hot reloading is supported for Tomcat and Netty embedded web servers.

Let's see that in action!

First, we're going to create our SSL private key and matching certificate using OpenSSL:

mkdir certs
cd certs
openssl req -x509 -subj "/CN=demo-cert-1" -keyout demo.key -out demo.crt -sha256 -days 365 -nodes -newkey rsa 

This creates a private key stored in certs/demo.key and a matching (self-signed) certificate with the common name "demo-cert-1" in certs/demo.crt

Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC2 available now

Releases | Phil Webb | November 03, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 69 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This release attempts to fix a few issues that were found with RC1. Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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

Spring Modulith 1.1 RC2 released

Releases | Oliver Drotbohm | November 03, 2023 | ...

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.1 RC2. We took the chance to incorporate feedback from the community to tweak a few internals of features newly introduced in the 1.1 generation. We have also managed to sneak a few new ones into the release:

  • Support for AWS SNS / SQS in event externalization (contributed by Maciej Walkowiak) GH-344
  • Allowing to define a listener identifier via @ApplicationModuleListener GH-346
  • Re-instantiated, general compatibility with Spring Boot 3.1 and Framework 6.0 GH-357
  • Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.2 RC2 GH-354

Find the full release change log

Spring Cloud 2023.0.0-RC1 (aka Leyton) Is Now Available

Releases | Ryan Baxter | November 02, 2023 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2023.0.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.0 Release Train

This release is based upon Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC1.

You can find a complete list of issues addressed in this release by viewing the release project.

Spring Cloud Stream

All the notable changes introduced in Spring Cloud Stream 4.1.0-RC1 can be found here.

The following modules…

Spring Tools 4.20.1 released

Releases | Martin Lippert | November 01, 2023 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.20.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

  • (Spring Boot) Completions for Spring Properties show up 10 times faster initially (as fast as on the consecutive invocations)
  • (Spring Boot) Various performance optimizations around symbols scanning and Java reconciling
  • (Eclipse) Early access builds available for upcoming Eclipse 2023-12 release

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.20.1.RELEASE

downloads

To download the…

This Week in Spring - October 31st, 2023

Engineering | Josh Long | October 31, 2023 | ...

Hi Spring fans, and Happy Halloween from the Spring team to those who celebrate!

I hope your evening is fun and your day free of scary bugs!

My friends, we've got some interesting stuff to look at this week so let's dive right into it.

What new is coming in reactor-core 3.6.0?

Engineering | Oleh Dokuka | October 31, 2023 | ...

Reactor 3.6.0 is coming and going to be GA on November 14. This blogpost describes new features that are included in this upcoming release!

Virtual Threads support

Today, everyone talks about Java 21 and Project Loom. The Project Reactor team hears that and sees value in that project within our ecosystem. With this upcoming release, we introduce support for the VirtualThread implementation.

Why is it handy?

Let's consider the following code sample:

package io.projectreactor.samples;

import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

import reactor.core…

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