Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's December 26th, 2023, and we're staring down the new year! And you know what that means, right? It's time for our annual roundup, looking at all the latest and greatest in the wild and wonderful world of Springdom. This is This Year in Spring. So, here are some of the biggest themes in the year 2023, and then we'll get to our regularly scheduled roundup.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You've no doubt heard all about the incredible leapfrogging advancements being made in the area of artificial intelligence! It's everywhere! Even before…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to legendary Cloud Native Whitney Lee about cloud infrastructure, that one trick every dev must know, her new operations-centric gameshow, and more. Happy holidays to y'all!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. 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.

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On behalf of the community I am happy to announce Spring Modulith 1.0.4 and 1.1.1. The releases primarily contain bug fixes and dependency upgrades to the latest Spring Boot versions.

Find more information in the corresponding change logs of 1.0.4 and 1.1.1.

Happy holidays!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 81 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. 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.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.9 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.9 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.9 Release Train

This release of Spring Cloud is based on Spring Boot 2.6.15 and is compatible with Spring Boot 2.7.18 and 3.0.13.

This will be last open source release of Spring Cloud 2021.0.x. All projects within this release train have reached end of life. We suggest you upgrade to Spring Cloud 202…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 3.1.1 is generally available now from Maven central.

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.1 GA release.

This patch release contains a few minor features, enhancements and bug fixes. Please see the release notes for more details.

We want to thank all the community members who contributed to this release.

This is the first GA release that we are doing since Gary Russell made the decision to retire. He is the founder of this project. Gary's penchant for software…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.2.1, 6.1.6, and 5.8.9 are available now. In all cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

To learn more, please visit the 6.2.1, 6.1.6, and 5.8.9 release summaries.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring AMQP 3.1.1 is generally available now from Maven Central.

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.1 release.

This patch release contains a few minor features, enhancements and bug fixes. Please see the release notes for more details.

Most notable changes are:

• The documentation has been migrated to Spring Antora site;
• All the synchronized blocks in the code have been replaced with Lock (and Conditional) instances to satisfy virtual threads requirements;
• The JacksonUtils.enhancedObjectMapper() has been introduced to register well-known Jackson modules into an ObjectMapper used in the framework;
• The CI/CD has been migrated to GitHub Actions.
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