Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed, fun-filled, rock'em sock'em installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 18th of January and I'm feelin' great because I just got back from a three-day weekend. Here in the US, we celebrated on Monday the life of the good Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist who advanced the plight of African American civil rights. Dr. King is another one of my favorite doctors, along with Drs. Syer, Strange, Who, Subramaniam, and Pollack.

How're you? We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Sabby Anandan
• First Spring Data 2022.0.0 and 2021.2.0 milestones released
• Michael Coté on Twitter
• the Oracle Java team's Sharat Chander (@sharat_chandler) recently took time to thank me, along with my heroes and Bootiful Podcast guests Dr. Venkat Subramaniam (@venkat_s) and Matt Raible (@mraible), for our contributions to the Java ecosystem. I want to return the favor, Sharat, here on this very large platform: thank YOU for all you've done for the community. You're an inspiration.
• Spring Data 2021.1 SR1 and 2021.0 SR8 released
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.6.RELEASE has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 18 bug fixes and documentation improvements. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.0.0-M1 and 5.7.0-M1 are available now.

This initial 6.0 milestone covers the baseline upgrade efforts, in particular requiring JDK 17+ and migrating to the Jakarta EE 9 APIs, required by Spring Framework 6, as announced in this blog post.

For the release changes, please refer to the releases page.

Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-M1 this week!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring REST Docs 3.0.0-M1 is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This initial 3.0 milestone contains 13 enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. It covers the baseline upgrade efforts, in particular requiring JDK 17 and Spring Framework 6 and migrating to the Jakarta EE 9 APIs as announced in this blog post.

Please note that support for REST Assured has been removed temporarily as it is not yet compatible with Jakarta EE 9. We hope to reinstate support in a…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the first round of milestones of the Spring Data 2022.0 and 2021.2 release trains.

2021.x vs. 2022.x

You might now ask why is there a new release in the calver 2021.x version and why is there already a 2022.x release?

In parallel to working on Spring Data 3.x, aka 2022.0.0, we continue to invest in the support of the Spring Data 2.x development line. We already expect Spring Data 2.7 and 2.8 releases. So, if you want to continue using Spring Boot 2 for an extended period of time, stick to the 2021.x release trains (which are based on Spring Framework 5.3 and Java 8). That's the reason we chose to continue with calver 2021.x, which, hopefully, makes understanding version compatibilities easier. Our Spring Data 3.x development line will be based on Java 17 and Spring Framework 6 and be compatible with …

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2021.1.1 and 2020.0.8. Both releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up the artifacts with its upcoming releases.

To round things off, here are the links to the artifacts, changelogs, and documentation:

2021.1.1

• Spring Data Commons 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.3.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.3.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.2.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.3.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M2 and 5.3.15 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.15 includes 17 fixes and improvements as a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios. Spring Framework 6.0.0-M2 includes 6 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch.

Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-M1 next week!

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Sabby Anandan (@sabbyanandan).

Hi, Spring fans! How're you? I'm fresh off my three weeks respite and this is my first blog back on the clock officially! It's so good to be back. I've been busy over the break, working on updating my blog and on updating the Reactive Spring book. Fun, fun! Anyway, we've got a fun week to recap, so let's get right to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb (and happy new year!)
• Blog: Kubernetes is Moving on From Dockershim: Commitments and Next Steps
• My talk from the last Brighton Kotlin session of 2021 is up: Bootiful Kotlin with Josh Long
• Improving Micrometer's Build with Gradle Enterprise | Gradle Enterprise
• Introducing the Spring Integration Groovy DSL
• JDK 18 Early-Access Builds
• Spring Framework CVE-2021-22060 has been published
• Uploading Media in Spring Boot Programmatically With Cloudinary - DEV Community
• There's a new release of Project Reactor, …