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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, we are very excited to announce the 2.10.0 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow is now available from Maven Central.

Spring updates

Updates to the following versions:

• Spring Boot 2.7.6
• Spring Framework 5.3.24
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.5

Spring Shell

Spring Shell has been updated to 2.1.4.

Documentation Updates

Container images for ARM.

Spring Cloud Data Flow and Skipper, and Stream Application projects contain scripts to use in creating containers when running on an ARM platform. The Reference Guide has a section describing the use of the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Vaadin's Marcus Hellberg (@marcushellberg) about rich UIs, Vaadin Flow, the new Hilla Framework, GraalVM native image compilation, and so much more

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.17.0 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 2022-12 release (new and noteworthy)

early access to new experimental features

Among a number of bug fixes and minor improvements, this release introduces experimental support for:

• Spring Boot version validations: The IDE will tell you when there is a newer major, minor, or patch version available for your Spring Boot project
• Spring Boot upgrade support: The tooling will help you upgrading your existing projects to newer Spring Boot versions, including upgrades to newer patch and minor versions, as well as newer major versions (e.g. upgrading to Spring Boot 3)
• Spring specific validations and refactorings: The…

In 2020, Spotify coined the term "Golden Path” to refer to a supported approach and set of components to build and deploy software. Having these paths simplifies the development process, lets developers focus on their applications instead of infrastructure and speeds time to production. Microsoft and VMware have partnered to make Azure Spring Apps a golden path for deploying and scaling Spring applications in the cloud. And with new capabilities like the scale to zero and developer productivity enhancements, Azure Spring Apps now offers an even more economical and optimized route to get your…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? You know what I've wanted to do? See my friends on the Spring team in person since the pandemic descended. And, I'm overjoyed to relate, I've just had the privilege of a nice meeting with several of them last night. And I'm going to see more of them today! Seriously. I feel like I won the lottery. I've missed my friends. Hug your friends and family, friends. You never know when the next pandemic (or life in general) will put distance between you and them. So, in order to close that distance, I'm going to go…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.4 and 3.0.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/release, Maven Central and https://repo.spring.io/milestone respectively.

3.0.0-M3 is first milestone which builds on Spring Boot 3.0.0 GA version.

Please see the release notes 2.1.4 and release notes 3.0.0-M3 for more details.

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

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

With the recent announcement of Spring Boot 3.0 going GA, some of you may be interested in upgrading your Spring Web Services-based applications to take full advantage of this. The Spring WS team has upgraded our set of sample apps to help you carry that out.

The main branch now tracks the version of samples with all these updates. (The prior version of samples built on Spring Boot 2.7 are now on that repository’s 1.0.x branch.)

Some of the highlights are covered below.

A LOT of our tools have moved!

Back in the olden days, much of our XML processing tools were inside the JDK. But ever since…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2022.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.0 RC3 release

Click here to see all issues in this release.

Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-RC3 requires Spring Boot 3.0.0.

Spring Cloud Contract

• Removes Gradle's support for src/test/resources/contracts checking (#1848)

Check the latest migration guide entry for more information.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Added the possibility to disable global CORS configuration (#2779)
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