On behalf of everyone involved, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the sixth and final milestone of Spring for GraphQL on the way to 1.0. Our next stop is RC1 in 4 weeks, followed by the GA on May 17.

GraphQL Client

A GraphQL client is something we identified as a goal quite early on. It's issue number 10 from 336 at present in the issue tracker, but we viewed testing support as higher priority and so the GraphQL Tester came first and has been available from the start.

The Tester did prove valuable and popular, but we knew we had to fully explore the client before 1.0 as the two are…

Those of you who know the Spring Native experimental project are aware that the Spring team has been working on native image support for Spring applications since 2019. After a first beta in March 2021, we shipped an extensive revision of our Spring Native efforts in December 2021.

We’ve also announced at SpringOne last year that we intend to promote this work to Spring Framework 6.0 proper in the course of 2022. Following the release of our third milestone, this blog post walks you through what has been included already and what is coming next.

Ahead-Of-Time Processing

Processing the…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2021.1.3 and 2021.0.10. Both releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot 2.6.5 respective 2.5.11 are going to pick up these releases in the upcoming days.

Along with the service releases, we released the next milestone 2021.2.0-M4 of the 2021.2 release train. Spring Boot 2.7.0-M3 will pick up this release soon. We have summarized the new and noteworthy changes in our 2021.2 release notes.

We have also released the next milestone 2022.0.0-M3 of the 2022.0 release train. Spring Boot 3.0.0-M2 will pick up this release. We have summarized the new and noteworthy changes in our 2022.0 release notes…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Elastic's Felix Barnsteiner about APM for Spring developers.

• make log onboarding easier. Start here.
• use this to make slow methods show up in traces

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 and 5.3.17 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.17 includes 17 fixes and improvements as well as a fix for CVE-2022-22950: Spring Expression DoS Vulnerability and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 includes 33 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch.

This milestone brings a first batch of migration of our AOT (Ahead Of Time) efforts from Spring Native, paving the way for Native support in the wider Spring ecosystem. See the follow-up blog post…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.14.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2022-03 release (new and noteworthy)

fixes and improvements

• (VSCode) fixed: VSCode Spring boot tools 1.30.0 error trying to find JVM (#726)
• (VSCode) fixed: vscode "Problems" diagnostic entries lack "source" field (#725)
• (VSCode) fixed: orphan vscode extension processes left running (#704)
• (VSCode) fixed: deadlock in language server process avoids process to be shutdown (#741)
• (VSCode) fixed: Outline View is broken again on Windows (#742)
• (VSCode) fixed: boot-java.live-information.automatic-tracking.on is not working on vscode (#733)
• (VSCode) fixed: Java 17 is mis-identified as Java 8 (#713)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Deadlock with Spring LSP in Eclipse 4.23 with STS 4.23 nightlies (#729…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the joy of writing fast, native CLI applications with Spring Boot, Spring Shell, GraalVM, and Spring Native

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a good amount of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• Introducing Spring Cloud Alibaba 2021.0.1.0
• In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at Hilla, an amazing new web framework from Vaadin
• A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft Azure Developer Advocate Mark Heckler
• OG Cloud-Native Cora Iberkleid put together a really nice look on how to get resources in Kubernetes to "explain themselves"
• Kai Tödter announced that he's released version 1.3.0 of JSON:API for Spring HATEOAS
• I'm honored to be counted among many amazing folks in this list of The Top 100 Influencers in #DevRel
• Binaries for #OpenJDK 11.0.14.1 are out. This release addresses an issue with the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former fellow Spring Developer Advocate at Tanzu, and current Java Developer Advocate at Microsoft, friend, ally, and altogether amazing human being, Mark Heckler (@mkheck).