Hi, Spring fans! It's the 20th of December, 2022 as I write this, which means that by the time we meet again, here on this humble blog, Tuesday next week, Christmas will already have come and gone. Chanukah is already here! Time is sure flying! So, to those of you who celebrate: Happy Chanukah, Merry Christmas, and happy holidays!

There's arguably nothing better than the gift of knowledge, so let's dive right into this week's roundup:

• A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Brian Benz on the state of Java, Microsoft, Azure, and so much more
• Spring Framework 6.0.3 available now
• Spring Security 6.0.1, 5.8.1, 5.7.6 and 5.6.10 available now
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 0.1.0 available now
• Spring for GraphQL 1.1.1 released
• Fixing the No Main Manifest Attribute in Spring Boot
• Oracle has a nice post: Go Native with Spring Boot 3 and GraalVM
• Baeldung has an interesting tutorial on Pinpoint, which looks to be a large APM suite with some interesting capabilities.
• Stream Large Byte[] to File With WebClient
• …

I'm pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 1.1.1 is now available on Maven Central.

This first maintenance release in the 1.1.x generation includes 19 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.1, to be released later this week.

How can you help?

If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-graphql tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.0.1, 5.8.1, 5.7.6 and 5.6.10 are available now. In all cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes and documentation improvements.

To learn more, please visit the 6.0.1, 5.8.1, 5.7.6 and 5.6.10 release summaries.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2022.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.0 Release Train

Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 is a major release that builds upon Spring Framework 6.x and Spring Boot 3.x. This includes compatibility with Jakarta EE and requires a Java 17 baseline. See here for the issues included in this release. Below are highlights from all of the 2022.0.0 milestone, release…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.3 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.3 includes 48 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.1, to be released next week.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Microsoft's Brian Benz (@bbenz)

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 0.1.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This is the initial GA minor release of the framework. The full 1.0.0 GA release is expected mid Q12023 and will contain many more features. Although it still lives in the experimental Spring projects it is expected to move into the main Spring projects as part of the full release.

Notable Changes

We have been busy adding features since our last blog. Notable new features include:

• Reactive support
• GraalVM Native Image Support
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A critical piece of infrastructure, the Spring Artifactory instance lies at the heart of the Spring portfolio development work. Since 2013, JFrog, Inc., has generously sponsored the instance for the Spring developer community.

In October 2020, we announced some permissions changes to our Artifactory instance to restrict anonymous access to the platform for third-party dependencies.

At that time, we asked the Community to source Spring releases from Maven Central. Today, we are announcing some changes to our infrastructure in alignment with that request so that we can better position repo…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I truly, absolutely, can not believe that we're nearly done with the year already! Have you made your new years' resolutions? Submitted your expense reports? It's that time of the year when I'm going to start focusing on staying warm and avoiding undue work for a while :-) I hope you do too. This is why I'm glad I write these roundups: I hope they save people from extra, undue work! So, with that... let's dive into the roundup!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg on rich UIs, Spring Boot 3, GraalVM native images, and more
• A Guide to Spring CredHub
• Do more with Azure Spring Apps – scale to zero and enhance productivity
• Form Login and Basic Authentication in springdoc-openapi
• Getting Started with Blaze Persistence
• Guide to Java PriorityQueue
• Java Generics PECS – Producer Extends Consumer Super
• RSocket Security with Spring Boot via Spring Security | VMware Tanzu Developer Center
• Rate Limiting With Client IP in Spring Cloud Gateway
• Reinitialize Singleton Bean in Spring Context
• a very important release - v3.0.0 - of the rickroll-security-spring-boot-starter · TomCools/rickroll-security-spring-boot-starter…