Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm trying to wind down some threads and take some vacation with my family. It's going to be an amazing time, indeed! But that doesn't stop the deluge of novelties and news in the wide world of Springdom, so we've got a lot to cover this week. Let's get to it!

Before I go, though, I have a new "Spring Tips" episode dropping Wednesday morning, at midnight, so be on the look out :)

• A Bootiful Podcast: Nate Schutta: The Thinking Person's Architect, My Friend, and Teammate
• Blog: Kubernetes Gateway API Graduates to Beta
• JWT Authentication with OAuth2 Resource Server and an external Authorization Server
• Kotlin & Spring Boot: Building a Rest API
• Release v1.5.1 · toedter/spring-hateoas-jsonapi
• Spring Boot – Keycloak Integration Testing with Testcontainers
• Spring Boot – Testing Redis With Testcontainers
• Spring Data 2022.0.0-M5 2021.2.2 and 2021.1.6 released
• Spring Data Rest – Serializing the Entity ID
• Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5 and 5.3.22 available now
• …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 5.8.0-M1 and 6.0.0-M6 are available now.

This release includes dependency upgrades, bug fixes, and enhancements. Here are a few noteworthy changes:

• Deferred SecurityContext lookup

• SecurityContextHolderStrategy Bean lookup

• AuthorizationManager support

• SHA-256 RememberMe support

• Release automation improvements

See the 5.8.0-M1 and 6.0.0-M6 release notes for more details.

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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the 5th Milestone of Spring Data 2022.0.0 as well as service releases 2021.2.2 and 2021.1.6. The service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. One notable upgrade in 2022.0.0-M5 is the move to Hibernate 6.

For your convenience, the next Spring Boot releases are going to pick up 2021.2.2 and 2021.1.6 in the upcoming days. To round things off, here are the links to the individual modules, changelogs, and documentation:

2022.0.0-M5

• Spring Data Commons 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5 and 5.3.22 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.22 includes 45 fixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5 includes 85 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend, teammate, and architect extraordinaire, Nate Schutta (@ntschutta)

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Native 0.12.1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/release.

This release includes 15 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades to Spring Boot 2.7.1 and Native Build Tools 0.9.13. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? This week I'm writing you from sunny Seattle, Washington, where we're having our next installment of the SpringOne Tour series. It's been a ton of fun seeing all these fun and friendly faces again and getting to see people, many of whom I haven't seen since before the pandemic! I've also had a lot of fun seeing some friends from some of the big cloud companies here, Microsoft and AWS. It's always interesting to learn how people are using the latest and greatest from Spring to build amazing systems and software…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

Please see the release notes for more details.

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

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I am pleased to announce that the release candidate Spring for Apache Kafka 2.9.0 is now available (2.9.0-RC1) in the Spring Milestone Repo.

This version is not provided by Spring Boot dependency management, but it can be used with Boot 2.7 (or 2.6), as long as you override the Kafka dependencies as described in this appendix, especially if you are using the embedded Kafka broker.

Notable Changes

• This version uses the 3.2.0 kafka-clients version

• Non-blocking retry bootstrapping is now more robust

• New Error Handler Mode

By default, after an error, the DefaultErrorHandler performs seeks on the remaining records from the last poll and re-fetches them from the broker on the next poll. With high error rates and large max.poll.records, this can cause unnecessary strain on the network. For this reason, the error handler has a new property seekAfterError, when set to false, instead of seeking the records, the remaining records are retained in memory and the consumer paused for the next poll (or multiple polls if the error handler is configured to use the ContainerPausingBackOffHandler…