In the early versions of Spring Security, a deliberate decision was made to avoid providing any guarantee of compatibility for serialized classes (via JDK serialization) between different versions of the project. This decision primarily took into account the context of RMI, with the recommendation being that both the server and client should use the same version of Spring Security.

As more apps depend on persistent sessions and technologies like Spring Session, the problem with inconsistent serialization becomes a bigger deal. Persistent sessions mean saving user sessions by turning them into…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 105 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Observability Improvements
• Spring Security Improvements

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

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 53 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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I'm excited to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.0.5, 1.1.2 and 1.2 M1. The releases primarily ship bug fixes and minor improvements regarding the event publication registry, event externalization and general configuration.

Beyond that, 1.2 M1 contains advanced dependency updates such as the one to Boot 3.3 M1 but remains generally compatible with previous 3.x versions of it.

More details about what went into which release can be found in the change logs linked above.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to programming language archaeologist Ted Neward

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.2 is generally available from Maven Central now!

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.2 GA release.

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, check out open issues in the Github repository. If you have general questions, please ask on Stack Overflow using the spring-pulsar tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Session 3.3.0-M1 is now available.

This milestone brings a Reactive Redis Indexed implementation of ReactiveSessionRepository with support for session events and find sessions by principal name.

This new implementation takes a slightly different approach on how to store and retrieve the secondary indexes information, as well as the session expiration strategy. Check out the documentation and give it a try, we are looking forward to receiving your feedback.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-M1.

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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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 16th of January already! We're closer to February than not! I can hardly believe it.

As always, we've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it.

• the Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-m1 is now available
• this is such a cool project: it lets you use the Spring Boot programming model for TestContainers - as dependencies that get spun up for you automatically - but for other Spring Boot projects, like other services. It's super common to spin up multiple JVMs to test an entire application. One such use case? Spinning up an instance of the Spring Authorization Server, or the Spring Cloud Eureka Server, or the Spring Cloud Config Server, or even just collaborating microservices.
• Spring Session 3.3.0 M1 is now available
• …