On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.10.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release contains an update of the Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and Spring Cloud versions. See the release notes for more information.

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This blog gives an update on the Schema Registry support that is part of Spring Cloud Stream version 4.0.x.

Many enterprises use a schema registry for schema evolution use cases, such as the Confluent Schema Registry. Starting with version 1.1.x of Spring Cloud Stream until 3.0.0, we provided a schema registry server and AVRO-based schema registry client converters that can reconcile the schema from the schema registry server. Spring Cloud Stream version 3.0.0 moved the Schema Registry components into a top-level spring-cloud project, and Spring Cloud Stream included those in its BOM for the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 116 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This is the second release candidate and so doesn't include much in the way of new features. It does, however, bring a migration to Jakarta EE 10 APIs and a few changes to /actuator endpoints. Our final release is scheduled for November 24, 2022 so this is your last chance to provide feedback or raise issues for…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 includes 12 fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 later this week!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 is available now.

Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 includes fixes and improvements to the documentation. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 later this week!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to RabbitMQ engineer Arnaud Cogoluègnes (@acogoluegnes) on the new and novel in RabbitMQ

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second and final release candidate of Spring Batch 5 is now available from our milestone repository.

In this release, we worked on the following items:

• Full MariaDB support
• Native support improvements
• Observability improvements

This blog post walks through these changes in details. For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Full MariaDB support

Up until v4.3, Spring Batch provided support for MariaDB by considering it as MySQL. In this release, MariaDB is now treated as a separate database product with its own DDL script and DataFieldMaxValueIncrementer…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've been busy this last week! I've been visiting with customers and talking to the community here in South East Asia. I was in Malaysia last week, and now I'm in Bangkok, Thailand. I'm near the end of my time here in SE Asia, which makes me sad. I'm dearly going to miss the food and the weather, but time waits for no person, and it's almost time to go home.

And with time comes a jam-packed roster of new things we can read and learn from. So, without further ado, let's dive right into it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion, legend, and prolific open source contributor Andres Almiray
• CVE Report Published for Spring Tools
• Can a Java Application Use More Memory than the Heap Size?
• JUnit – Testing Methods That Call System.exit()
• Spring Authorization Server 0.4.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.0.0-RC1 available now
• Spring Data 2022.0.0-RC2 available
• Spring Modulith 0.1 M2 released
• Have you tested your application against the upcoming Spring Boot 3? There's a ton of amazing new features arriving in this release and you should definitely be kicking the tires now. Remember: Spring Framework 6 is due in about a week's time and Spring Boot 3 is due less than a few weeks after that! And you know where to go: …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.5 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.5 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.5 Release Train

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Function

• Add support for Azure Timer Trigger in spring-cloud-function-azure

• Enhancement to AWS Function Invoker in spring-cloud-function-aws to programmatically inject function definition

• Add support for Azure Timer Trigger in spring-cloud-function-azure

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