Kotlin is a beautiful language that makes it trivial to take old Java libraries and make them much more concise, just by virtue of the Kotlin syntax itself. It shines, however, when you write DSLs.

Here's some inside baseball for you: the Spring teams do their level-headed best to be cohesive, to align on core themes, and to make Spring better than the sum of its parts. You see this in every major release: XML namespaces in Spring Framework 2.0. Java Config in 3.0. Conditionals and autoconfiguration when Spring Boot 1.0 first shipped alongside Spring Framework 4.0. Reactive programming with…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.18.0 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 2023-03 release (new and noteworthy)

important highlights

• (Spring Boot): new and vastly improved content-assist for Spring Data repository query methods (thanks to contributions from @danthe1st)
• (Spring Boot): the additional reconciling of Spring Boot projects to show Spring specific validations, outdated versions and more, now reports progress, runs faster, and uses less memory - please consider using this and tell us about your experiences and if you hit issues while having this feature enabled
• (VSCode): fixed an extremely annoying issue that caused regular Java content-assist in VSCode to stop working after a short while
• (Eclipse): a bug in m2e got fixed and is included in this release, which caused resource files (e.g. application.properties) to not be copied into the target folder anymore. This works again and automatically copies your changed application.properties…

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Pi (π) day! And, welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's pouring cats and dogs here in San Francisco! The news is talking about atmospheric rivers; I don't know what that means but I don't know that I want to find out. Anyway, all that to say: I'm glad as always for an opportunity to stay indoors and learn. We've got a lot to review this week so let's dive right into it!

• I did a video for our friends at Jetbrains on the IntelliJ IDEA Youtube channel and people seem to like it. Perhaps you will too? Bootiful Spring Boot 3 - YouTube In it, I look at just some of the amazing new features in Spring Boot 3.
• The SpringOne@Explore Calls for Paper is Open!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Google Cloud Java Advocate Aaron Wanjala
• API First Development with Spring Boot and OpenAPI 3.0
• Announcing Spring Cloud GCP 4.0 | Google Cloud Blog
• Build a CRUD Rest API in Java using Spring boot, Hibernate, Postgres, Docker and Docker Compose
• Did you know Java now has records? And that records are amazingly flexible? …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Google Cloud Java advocate Aaron Wanjala (@ AaronMDubya) about Spring Framework for Google Cloud

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, we are very excited to announce the 2.10.2 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow is now available from Maven Central. Release Notes

Spring updates

Updates to the following versions:

• Spring Boot 2.7.9

Stay in touch...

Project Page Data Flow Mini-site

As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub.

I am excited to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 0.5. The most relevant features the release ships are:

• #152 – A dedicated starter to ease inclusion of actuator and observability features
• #163 – The renamed property to trigger JDBC database initialization. (spring.modulith.events.schema-initialization.enabled -> spring.modulith.events.jdbc-schema-initialization.enabled)
• #149 – Default to await termination of task executors unless configured not to
• #150 – Scenario should run stimulus in new transaction
• #162, #154 – The usual dependency upgrades (Spring Boot 3.0.4, jMolecules 2022.2.4)
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Hi, Spring fans! The Spring community is everything. Without your voice, there is no Spring. And we love to hear from you. Make your voice heard and submit a talk for the SpringOne@Explore conference being held in tandem with VMWare Explore in Las Vegas August 21st to 24th, 2023.

See you in Vegas!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's an amazing week, and this week we've got a lot to look at. Let's dive right into it.

• Spring Cloud Function for Azure Function
• Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9 released
• Spring R2DBC for Reactive Relational Databases in Reactive Programming | Gökhan Ayrancıoğlu - Software Engineer, Blogger
• I'll be joining Mark Thomas, legendary contributor to Apache Tomcat, live at 9am here . Join us, bring your questions, etc.
• JRebel has a nice look at the New Features in Spring Framework 6 | JRebel by Perforce
• Authenticating Users with AzureAD in Spring Boot
• Debugging Spring Method Annotations Using Lightrun
• Migrate Application From Spring Boot 2 to Spring Boot 3
• …

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of Spring Data 2022.0.3 and 2021.2.9 service releases. These releases ship with improvements, including fixes for regressions. Some of them were important enough that we decided to release this version early, outside of the usual schedule.

The upcoming Spring Boot 3.0.4 release is going to pick up Spring Data 2022.0.3 for your convenience. If you want to upgrade your Spring Boot 2.7.x application to use Spring Data 2021.2.9, then use the version property mechanism to specify the Spring Data BOM version:

Maven POM:

<properties…