Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

• Sam Brannen shares some good news: a null-safe Index operator for the Spring Expression Language (SpEL) is coming to Spring Framework 6.2!
• This is interesting, and a nice application of AI (do I even need to spell out "artificial intelligence" anymore?): localize applications with Spring AI
• this is a neat guide by community member Wim Deblauwe over on InfoQ: A Practical Guide to Building an API Back End with Spring Boot - version 2
• James Ward, founder of the WebJars project and a legend in his own right, invites folks to contribute feedback on the new webjars-locator-lite module, created by the good, the great, the amazing and inimitable Dr. David Syer
• the Java Techie Youtube channel has a nice video looking at Spring Boot for Apache Pulsar
• I love this talk from Voxxed Days Zurich from community member Maciej Walkowiak on Performant Spring Data JPA
• Speaking of Dr. Syer, he's got a great post, Reflectionless templates with Spring, up on the Spring blog
• Spring Modulith 1.2 M3 has been released
• Spring Boot 3.3.0-M3 is available now
• On the last episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Stuart Marks, Java's famous "Dr. Deprecator" - do not miss this installment!
• Spring Shell 3.1.10 and 3.2.3 are now available](https://spring.io/blog/2024/03/21/spring-shell-3-1-10-and-3-2-3-are-now-available)
• Spring Boot 3.2.4 is now available now
• Spring Boot 3.1.10 is available now
• Spring Integration 6.3.0-m2, 6.2.3, and 6.1.7, are available now
• Spring Session 3.2.2 and 3.1.5 are available now
• Spring Session 3.3.0-M3 is available now
• in last week's installment of Spring Tips, I looked at the Kotlin Exposed ORM library and its integration with Spring Boot