Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Integration 6.1.0-M2 is now available from Spring Milestone repository.

In addition bug fixes versions 5.5.17 and 6.0.4 have been released. They also include upgrades to the latest point versions of dependencies with their bug fixes.

The Spring Integration 6.1 version is a natural evolution of 6.x generation with fixes and improvements which didn't make it into 6.0. Plus we listen to community and make some possibly but convenient for target projects breaking changes.

Some highlights of this new version…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 40 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Java 20 Support

Following the GA release of Java 20 earlier this week, Spring Boot 3.0.5 adds support for Java 20.

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…

I am excited to announce the releases of versions 1.5.4, 2.0.3 and 2.1 M1 of Spring HATEOAS. The bug fix releases primarily ship dependency upgrades, including one to the latest Spring Framework 5 and 6 releases which include fixes for a CVE. The 2.1 milestone includes a couple of new features, such as:

• Property metadata for forms now also considers JSR-03's @Size annotation – #1920
• Introduction of SlicedModel, a simplified version of PagedModel to navigate slices but not calculate a total – #1856

For more information, please check out the full changelogs on GitHub.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 34 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Java 20 Support

Following the GA release of Java 20 earlier this week, Spring Boot 2.7.10 adds support for Java 20.

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…

We are launching a new way to pay for Azure Spring Apps -- the consumption pricing plan. This plan is now in public preview so you can start creating and deploying apps today. This new plan is super-efficient because you can start from zero and scale to zero vCPU. You get more straightforward pricing across your containerized applications since it costs the same as Azure Container Apps, but with added value for Spring apps.

How does this work? With the new plan, you can deploy apps that don’t need to run all the time or apps that have bursts of traffic and only pay for the resources used…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip roaring installment of This Week in Spring! It's March 21st and today they announced Java 20! It's an exciting time to be a Java developer. Java 20, of course, is just another amazing installment before Java 21, which comes out in six short months, including Project Loom. And, of course, Spring Framework looks set to provide integrations with it in Spring Framework 6.1. It's an amazing time to be a Java and Spring Boot developer!

• In my latest installment of Spring Tips, I look Vaadin Flow and Spring Boot 3
• I did a video introducing Spring Boot 3 for the fine folks over at Jetbrains a few weeks ago. People seem to love it. Maybe you will too?
• In the comments for this video, a viewer from Columbia asked me to do a video introducing Spring Webflux and I remembered I've done a ton of videos on reactive programming with Spring Boot, including this one, that people seemed to like from 2019
• …

I am pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring for GraphQL 1.2.0 is now available from our Milestone repository. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.1.0-M2 due for release this Thursday.

This first milestone raises the baseline to GraphQL Java 20.0 and we will align with the new GraphQL Java release policy in the future. We are also upgrading to the next generations of Spring Framework, Spring Data and Spring Security.

Pagination Support

When it comes to navigating large result sets with GraphQL, the Cursor Connection Specification is very popular. With the features…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 1.1.0-M2.

The main feature delivered in this release is support for OAuth 2.0 Device Authorization Grant (gh-1106).

See the release notes for complete details.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the Getting Started chapter of the reference documentation and the samples to become familiar with setup and configuration.

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The Problem

One of Spring Data JPA’s handy features is letting you plugin in custom JPA queries through its @Query annotation.

This allows some flexiblity because you are still able to offer sort parameters to the consumers of your app. Check out the example below:

interface SampleRepository extends CrudRepository<Employee, Long> {

    @Query("select e from Employee e where e.firstName = :firstName")
    List<Employee> findCustomEmployees(String firstName, Sort sort);

}

Spring Data JPA will turn this custom query into a JPA query when provided not just with a criteria (firstName) but also a custom sort via findCustomEmployees("Alice", Sort.by("lastName"))…