Hot on the heels of Spring Framework 6.1, I am pleased to announce the 3.1 releases of Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring AMQP (Spring for RabbitMQ).

See the release notes for the 3.1.0, 3.1.0-RC1 and 3.1.0-M1 releases of each project - Spring for Apache Kafka and Spring AMQP for detailed content.

Also see the What's New documentation sections for highlights: Spring for Apache Kafka Spring AMQP.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another epic installment of This Week in Spring! As amazing as the week's already been, it's all leading up to this Thursday - Thanksgiving day! - when we release Spring Boot 3.2! (and yes, I am very grateful). This release is stuffed to the gills with a ton of new features:

• reloadable SSL support
• the new JdbcClient and the new RestClient, from Spring Framework 6.1.
• Java 21 virtual threads (project Loom)
• Coordinated Restore at Checkpoint (CRaC)
• observability improvements
• a ton of new and updated dependencies, like the newly integrated Spring for Apache Pulsar starter and autoconfiguration, the new Testcontainer support for ActiveMQ, and so much more.
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On behalf of the Spring Security team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Security 6.2.0 is generally available from Maven Central now! The 6.2 generation comes with improvements that you can check on the What's New section of the documentation.

Spring Security 6.2 has upgraded its Spring Framework baseline to 6.1 along with Project Reactor 2023.0.0 and Micrometer 1.12.0 while requiring Java 17 as minimum platform version and supporting up to Java 21 for Virtual Threads support.

This release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2 GA release. We'd like to hear from you, so keep…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2023.0.6, 2022.0.12, and 2021.2.18 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.1.6, respective 3.0.13 and 2.7.18 will pick up the above releases by next week.

We expect the next set of Spring Data maintenance releases to ship in mid-December.

End of Life

With today's releases, Spring Data development lines 2021.2.x ("Spring Data 2.7") and 2022.0.x ("Spring Data 3.0") are going end of life as per our open source support policy, with 2022.0.12 and 2021.2.18 being the last planned service releases. Releases may be done in the future, but only in response to commercial support. Please upgrade to Spring Data 2023.0.6 ("Spring Data 3.1") or 2023.1.0…

On behalf of the Spring Data engineering team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Data 2023.1 (Codename: Vaughan) from Maven Central! This release comes with several infrastructure themese as well as refinements in individual store modules.

Spring Data 2023.1 has upgraded its Spring Framework baseline to 6.1 along with Project Reactor 2023.0.0 and Micrometer 1.12.0 while requiring Java 17 as minimum platform version and supporting up to Java 21 for Virtual Threads support.

Virtual Threads can be used in various components by configuring an Virtual Threads-enabled Executor. Prominent examples for these components are Redis' MessageListenerContainer or Mongo's MessageListenerContainer…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the core framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.0 is generally available from Maven Central now! The 6.1 generation comes with several key themes:

• Embracing JDK 21 LTS
• Virtual Threads (Project Loom)
• JVM Checkpoint Restore (Project CRaC)
• Resource Lifecycle Management, revisited
• Data Binding and Validation, revisited
• New RestClient and JdbcClient APIs

Virtual Threads are a perfect fit for Spring MVC on a lean Servlet stack (typically on Tomcat), providing a new degree of scalability with imperative programming in common web…

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!

Have you tried out Spring Boot 3.2? It comes out NEXT week on the 23rd! Get the bits and try them out now! https://start.spring.io

This week I am joined by Google Developer Advocate, Java legend, Alexis Moussine Pouchkine

Updates

• [11-27] The 6.0.14 release includes a fix for CVE-2023-34053

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.31 and 6.0.14 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.31 ships with 18 fixes and documentation improvements, including 1 fix for a regression. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 2.7.18, to be released next week.

Spring Framework 6.0.14 ships with 38 fixes and documentation improvements, including 4 fixes for regressions. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.13 and 3.1.6, to be released next week…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 14th, and you know what that means? NINE MORE DAYS until Spring Boot 3.2 drops (on the day of the US holiday of Thanksgiving, no less)!

Some key features include:

• virtual threads
• initial CRaC support
• more sophisticated observability with Micrometerio
• JdbcClient, RestClient
• ActiveMQ Testcontainers/ Docker Compose support
• Kotlin 1.9.0

I can't wait for the next release. I've been playing with it for months. It builds on the strenghts of Spring Boot 3.0 and 3.1. 3.0 brought GraalVM native images, and 3.…