Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been yet another amazing and exciting week and with it a bevy of new releases. And of course, in about a week's time, we will find ourselves at Spring IO, ready to show a lot of these new things. Will you be there? I will! Anyway, let's dive right into it. There are a ton of new releases!

• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.6 is available now
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.0 is available now
• Spring AMQP 3.0.14 and 3.1.5 available now
• Spring Web Services 4.0.11 is available now
• Spring Data 2024.0 goes GA
• Spring Data 2024.1.6 and 2023.0.12 available now
• Spring Framework 6.2.0-M2 available now
• In last week's exciting installment of a A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Oleg Šelajev, of Docker and Testcontainers legend
• Spring Framework 6.1.7, 6.0.20 and 5.3.35 available now
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On behalf of the team and everyone in the community who contributed, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring for Apache Kafka 3.2.0.

Spring for Apache Kafka 3.2.0

Th 3.2.0 GA version includes new additions, feature enhancements, bug fixes, and documentation updates. For more details on all the changes in the 3.2.0 release, please see https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.2.0.

The upcoming Spring Boot 3.3.0 will include the 3.2.0 version of Spring for Apache Kafka.

Since this is the first GA version in the 3.2.x line, here is a recap of all the…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring for GraphQL 1.3.0. In addition to the M1 and the RC1 releases, the final release adds the following features:

• Virtual thread support for controller methods.
• GraphQL over WebSocket authentication via "connect_init" message.
• Interceptors in WebSocketGraphQlTester.
• Kotlin Flow as controller method return value.

See the Versions page on the wiki for a list of features.

On behalf of the Spring Security team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Security 6.3.0 from Maven Central!

The 6.3 release brings several compelling features including

• Long-term JDK serialization backward compatibility
• New method security annotations and capabilities
• Compromised password checking, and
• OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange support

To find out more about what’s new, see the what's new section of the documentation.

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3 GA release. We'd like to hear from you, so…

May 21, 2024, at 9 AM PST

You can now use Azure Spring Apps to effectively run Spring Batch applications with adaptive cost control. You only pay when batch jobs are running, and you can simply lift and shift your Spring Batch jobs with no code change.

Spring Batch is a framework for processing large amounts of data in Java applications. It provides reusable functions for logging, transaction management, job statistics, job restart, skipping errors, and resource management. It also supports high-performance tasks through optimization and partitioning. Introduced in March 2008, Spring Batch is…

On behalf of the Spring Session team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Session 3.3.0 from Maven Central!

The 3.3 release brings:

• Spring Session Backed implementation of ReactiveSessionRegistry (docs)
• Add ReactiveRedisIndexedSessionRepository (docs)
• Allow PlatformTransactionManager to be specified using @SpringSessionTransactionManager (docs)
• Improvements in the JDBC documentation

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3 GA release. We'd like to hear from you, so keep the feedback coming.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce Spring AMQP 3.0.14 and 3.1.5 are generally available now from Maven Central.

These patch releases contain a few minor features, enhancements and bug fixes. Please see the release notes 3.0.14 and release notes 3.1.5 for more details.

The 3.0.x branch has reached its End of Life for Open Source support. The next 3.0.15 version will be released only under Commercial license in August.

We also are looking to start 3.2 generation for upcoming November release train based on work-in-progress Spring Framework 6.2.

Cheers, 
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.3.0 release.

This release includes numerous enhancements, documentation improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

• Support for Transactions

Please see the release notes for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2023.1.6 and 2023.0.12 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.2.6, respective 3.1.12 will pick up the above releases by next week.

2023.1.6

• Spring Data Commons 3.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.2.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - …