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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Vault 3.1.0-RC1 release is available now.

Spring Vault 3.1.0-RC1 ships with numerous enhancements.

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It is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Modulith 1.1 RC1 and 1.0.2. While the latter primarily ships bug fixes and upgrades to Spring Boot 3.1.5, the former packages quite a few new features, such as:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.2 RC1 / Spring Framework 6.1 RC1 GH-329
• Verification of references in code located in the application root GH-317
• @ApplicationModuleListener now located in ….modulith-events in spring-modulith-events-api GH-322
• Stricter filtering of bean definitions in application module tests GH-320
• Moments now implements Now GH-335

For more information consult the full change logs for 1.1 RC1 and 1.0.2…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 128 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Support for reloading of SSL trust material when using Netty and Tomcat
• Improved nested jar support
• Support for configuring RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka using SSL bundles

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.17 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 32 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 team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 48 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 team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 62 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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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to VMware vice president Betty Junod about VMware, its amazing ecosystem, and so much more.