Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.22.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Support JPQL syntax in Java sources and Named Query properties files (Java sources not supported yet in Eclipse)
• (Spring Boot) Spring Symbol indexing has order of magnitude smaller memory footprint allowing for indexing very large Spring Boot projects
• (Spring Boot) New UI in VSCode to show/hide/refresh Live Data for running Spring Boot apps
• (Spring Boot) .properties <-> .yml conversions available in Eclipse and VSCode
• (Spring Boot) Show active profiles for running spring boot applications in Eclipse and VSCode with Boot Dashboard extension
• (Eclipse)…

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0-RC1 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from Spring Milestone Repo.

This release updates the stream apps to use the updated version of the Spring Functions Catalog.

Release notes are available:

• Spring Functions Catalog
• Stream Applications

We welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or Spring Functions Catalog - GitHub or Stream Applications - GitHub.

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Welcome to yet another amazing installment of This Week in Spring!

As usual, we've got a ton of stuff to get into, so let's dive right into it!

• Chris Bono announces the new versions of Spring Functions Catalog and Spring Cloud Streams Applications
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring Cloud Services and security guru Daniel Garnier-Moiroux about the nascent world and support in Spring Security of Passkeys.
• Spring Modulith 1.0.7 and 1.1.4 have been released! This introduces an updated ArchUnit 1.1.1 release, which in turn includes a fix to now support the new fat .jar format of Spring Boot. Spring Modulith applications that were using the runtime, actuator, and observability modules had been affected and should now properly…

I am happy to announce the release of Spring Modulith 1.0.7 and 1.1.4. it primarily ships an upgrade to ArchUnit 1.1.1 which in turn includes a fix to now support the new fat JAR format of Spring Boot. It had been improved in 3.2 but unfortunately broke ArchUnit's class scanning. Spring Modulith applications that were using the runtime, actuator and observability modules had been affected and should now properly work.

Find more information about the releases in the full change logs for 1.0.7 and 1.1.4.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've had a really busy, wonderful week, as always, so let's dive right into it!

• We want you! ...to submit a talk to SpringOne 2024, in sunny Las Vegas! Hurry, the CFP closes May 3rd!
• Spring Shell 3.1.11, 3.2.4, and 3.3.0-m1 are now available
• Spring Modulith 1.2 RC1 has been released
• I love this post by prolific Spring AI contributor Christian Tzolov: Spring AI: Multimodality - Orbis Sensualium Pictus
• Spring Boot 3.3.0-RC1 is available now. That's right, RC1! Spring Boot 3.3 will soon be upon us! Now's the time to kick…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.1.11, 3.2.4 and 3.3.0-M1 has been released and are now available from Maven Central and Milestone Repo respectively.

Please see the release notes 3.1.11, release notes 3.2.4 and release notes 3.3.0-M1 for more details.

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

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