Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Oracle vice president Thomas Wuerthinger about the project he created and leads, GraalVM. This was recorded live from Devoxx Belgium 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…

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.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Mr. Spring in Action, Craig Walls
• Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2022.0.0 available now
• Spring Statemachine 4.0.0-M1 is now available
• laech/java-stacksrc: Decorates stack traces with source code snippets. - this is super cool. It's a way to decorate stack traces with source code snippets.
• Blog: Introducing ingress2gateway; Simplifying Upgrades to Gateway API
• Blog: Plants, process and parties: the Kubernetes 1.28 release interview
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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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0-M1 is now available from Spring repos.

Please see the release notes 4.0.0-M1 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Hi, Spring fans! This week, I'm joined by one of my longtime heroes and fellow Disney fans, Craig Walls (@habuma). He wrote the most popular book on Spring, Spring in Action, while helping the world stay connected with efforts like Spring Social.

This episode was recorded live at SpringOne 2023, in sunny Las vegas, NV! Did you miss it?

On behalf of the Spring Framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that the second Spring Framework 6.1 release candidate is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now.

Spring Framework 6.1.0-RC2 ships 51 fixes and improvements.

This is our last stop before the official 6.1.0 release mid-November!

What's next

Check out our What's New page for details about the specific features shipped so far.

The second Spring Boot 3.2 release candidate will be released next week.

Hi, Spring fans! This week I'm in Lisbon, and Porto, Portugal, ahead of the Porto Tech Hub event in Porto, and my tour bus is about to leave! So, let's dive right into it!

• Spring Authorization Server 1.1.3, 1.0.4 and 0.4.4 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.2.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Boot 2.7.17 available now
• Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Modulith 1.1 RC1 and 1.0.2 released - this is quickly turning into one of my favorite new projects and is well worth your attention, too. It's a structured way to build well-designed, elegant, modular monoliths (or moduliths), but it…

Other parts in this blog series

Part 1: Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Part 2: Producer Initiated Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Part 3: Synchronizing with External Transaction Managers in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

Part 4: Transactional Rollback Strategies with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka

Part 5: Apache Kafka’s Exactly-Once Semantics in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

In this last part of this blog series, we dive into a relatively new design pattern first proposed by Chris Richardson but seeing it from the perspective of Spring Cloud Stream. We will see what the outbox pattern is, how it works, and a few strategies to adapt when using Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka. See the descriptions here…