Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring - Java 21 edition!

The big news, indeed, the biggest news, is that Java 21 is now available here! You should use SDKMAN to install it, like this: sdk install java 21-graalce && sdk default java 21-graalce. This install givews you both the new Java 21 OpenJDK distribution and the new GraalVM native image support for Java 21. It works just fine with existing versions of Spring Boot, but the real payoff will be with Spring Boot 3.2, where you'll be able to plug in virtual threads with nary but a flick of a property: spring.threads.virtual.enabled=true. Spring Boot 3.…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce the second Spring for Apache Pulsar milestone release 1.0.0-M2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

The most noteable features of this release are:

• Integration with Spring Boot 3.2.0-M3
• Updates to Pulsar 3.1.0

Please see the release notes for more detail.

A great place to get started is the Quick Tour in the reference docs.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, look for open issues in the Github repository. If you have general questions, please ask on Stack Overflow using the spring-pulsar tag…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Security 5.8.7, 6.0.7, 6.1.4, and 6.2.0-M1 are available now which fix CVE-2023-34042.

Please refer to the releases page for more detail on what is included in each release.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2023.0.4, 2022.0.10, and 2021.2.16 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes and improvements. Along with the fixes, we adressed two regressions introduced in the previous service releases to the JPA module.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases.

We expect the next set of Spring Data maintenance releases to ship next November, along with the new and exciting 3.2 we have been working on the last few months.

2023.0.4

• Spring Data Commons 3.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.1.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the third Spring Data milestone release 2023.1.0-M3.

The most notable features of this release are:

New Features

• Migrate Documentation to Antora
• Support for Postgres UUID arrays through Spring Data JDBC. Also, refined conversion support for Single Query Loading
• Add suport for Mongo's replaceOne operation
• Refinements to Lazy and PersistentEntity mapping metadata

What's next

Check out our Release Notes page for details about the specific features shipped so far.

The third Spring Boot 3.2 milestone will be released next week. This is a good opportunity to test existing applications with it and report any wrinkle in the upgrade…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.30 and 6.0.12 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.30 ships with 20 fixes and documentation improvements, including 5 fixes for regressions. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 2.7.16, to be released next week.

Spring Framework 6.0.12 ships with 75 fixes and documentation improvements, including 7 fixes for regressions. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.11 and 3.1.4, to be released next week.

We expect the next set of Spring Framework maintenance releases to…

On behalf of the Spring Framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that the fifth and final Spring Framework 6.1 milestone release is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now. We initially planned for this release to be the first release candidate, but decided to release another milestone and shorten the release candidate phase.

Spring Framework 6.1.0-M5 ships 99 fixes and improvements.

New Features

This new milestone ships new interesting features, such as:

• Support for one-time @Scheduled tasks
• The new RestClient has now its own section in the reference documentation and is instrumented for Observability
• Jetty 12 upgrade
• Context Propagation support for @Async and @Scheduled invocations
• Declarative ContextCustomizer support with @ContextCustomizerFactories in Spring Test
…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.20.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2023-09 release (new and noteworthy)

important highlights

• (Spring Boot): 5x-10x faster Java Reconciling support to show Spring specific validations re-built from the ground up tuned for high performance to work seamlessly in large code bases
• (Eclipse): No more rogue "Boot Language Server" jobs, forever calculating completion proposals and other stuck Java/Spring tooling features

more…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you this fine 12th of September? I'm doing alright, elated, even. I've just returned from beautiful Oslo, Norway, and I've got a busy 30 days or so ahead, starting today. I'm visiting Seattle, WA; Mexico City, Mexico; Dallas, TX; Singapore (SpringOne Singapore); Antwerp, Belgium (Devoxx BE!); London, United Kingdom; Amsterdam, Netherlands; and (maybe) parts of Germany. Keep an eye on my socials and videos for details as those dates and duties become clearer. Anyway, we've got a ton to look into this week, so…