Can you believe Spring is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year? We could not have gotten here without our millions of Spring developers across the globe, thank you! Spring has been an essential tool for Java developers, and it continues to grow and innovate at a fast pace. From the onset, Azure and VMware Tanzu have been trusted partners to customers for running mission-critical Java and Spring workloads. Our commitment and fondness for the Java Spring developer community have never wavered.

Microsoft and VMware Tanzu Collaboration Continues

Microsoft collaboration with the Spring team…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.20.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release adds a number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! This week Josh Long talks to Jetbrain's developer advocate Anton Arhipov, recorded live from the amazing Spring IO show in Barcelona, Spain!

Active health check strategies with Spring Cloud Gateway

Nowadays, applications are built as a collection of small independent upstream services. This accelerates development and allows modules to be focused on specific responsibilities, increasing their quality. This is one of the main advantages of using a microservice approach. However, jumping from one service to another can add extra latency, and this latency can be dramatically higher when the services are not responding.

If you run microservices, you want to prevent your upstream services from being called when they are not working…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in sweltering, but lovely, Singapore, where I'm meeting with customers and just finished presenting at the SpringOne Tour Singapore stop.

If you're in Singapore, I hope you'll join me tonight for Bootiful Spring Boot 3.x with Josh Long, Tue, Jul 4, 2023, 6:00 PM. It's going to be a ton of fun!

I'll be doing a SpringOne Tour event next week in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the 13th of July. Don't miss this!

We've got a crazy busy roundup to get to so let's dive right in!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Elastic's Philipp Krenn
• Blog: Verifying Container Image Signatures Within CRI Runtimes
• Building intelligent Spring Apps with Azure OpenAI
• Get started with Spring Boot and Auth0
• The IntelliJ IDEA Blog has a nice post titled Reactive Programming Made Easy?
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.8 (aka Jubilee) Is Available
• Spring Shell 2.1.11, 3.0.6 and 3.1.2 are now available
• Want to learn more about what makes Axon and Spring work so well together? Join Allard Buijze and I as we delve into it in this AxonIQCon 2023 keynote: register now!
• Sébastien did a nice demo looking at Spring Boot and CRaC: …

Note from Josh: Hi, Spring fans! I wanted to cross post this article looking at using Spring and Azure OpenAI from Microsoft's Sean Li because it's interesting: enjoy!

Integrating cutting-edge artificial intelligence into apps has become a new trend in today's technological landscape. Spring is the most popular Java framework in the market, known for its simplicity, design patterns and focus on productivity for developing enterprise-grade applications. In this blog, we delve into the exciting realm of leveraging Spring with Azure OpenAI to unlock a new realm of possibilities. You can…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.8 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.8 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.8 release

See all issues and pull requests for this release here.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Spring Cloud LoadBalancer - allow chain filtering of instances based on requests (#1227 )

Spring Cloud Config

• Support for profile specific config data (#2260).

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Support looking up the config server via DiscoveryClient (#1354)
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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Elastic's Philipp Krenn, live from Spring IO 2023 in beautiful Barcelona, Spain!

Spring Shell 2.1.11, 3.0.6 and 3.1.2 are now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.11, 3.0.6 and 3.1.2 has been released and are now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 2.1.11, release notes 3.0.6 and release notes 3.1.2 for more details.

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

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