Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, my first since I returned from two blistering hot but super fun months in Asia, I talk to Spring Cloud cofounder and lead Spencer Gibb (@SpencerBGibb) about the new Servlet-friendly Spring Cloud Gateway project.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2023.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.0-M1 Release Train

See all issues and pull requests here.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Initial support for MVC Server. See PR 2949 and Issue 36.

Spring Cloud Stream

• Initial support for runtime Kafka Streams binder error handling via a special processor
• Kafka binder health check improvements
• Partition handling improvements
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I am happy to announce the release of Spring Modulith 1.0 RC1. The first release candidate is likely to be the last before our GA release and contains quite a few new features and improvements.

• Event re-publication on startup is now configurable and defaults to false to avoid problems in cluster deployments. GH-240
• More efficient database access in the Event Publication Registry. GH-251
• The Clock instance used by the Event Publication Registry can now be customized. GH-206
• Improvements in ApplicationModuleExporter to support the structural verification in the editor of STS4 GH-227, GH-229
• A lot of minor improvements and documentation updates.
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm baaaaack in the USA for the first time in more than two months, and it feels great to be home!

I just concluded a tour of Asia, visiting

• Taipei, Taiwan
• Sydney, and the Blue Mountains, in Australia
• Seoul, S. Korea
• Singapore
• Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia
• Kuala Lumpur, Bali, and Penang, Malaysia
• Tokyo, Japan

i did public appearances in most of these cities, and it was a lot of fun. Thank you everyone that came out, and I can't wait to see you again soon!

I feel like I time-traveled. You remember during lockdown there was…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.19.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

updates to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• early-access builds available for early Eclipse 2023-09 milestones (via the Eclipse Marketplace or the corresponding update site)

selected fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Experimental validation support for Spring Modulith (#953)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: duplicates of symbols showing up (#10056)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Let show optional: prefix for spring.sql.init.schema-locations and spring.sql.init.data-locations (#1067)
• (Eclipse) fixed: class loading exception: SpringModelLanguageServer cannot be found (#1060)
• (Documentation) fixed: Use Theia Blueprint in the documentation? (#1073)
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Hi, Spring fans! I just crossed 13 years on the Spring team! I just got to spend a lovely day in the presence of one of my heroes and friends, UL Systems founder and chairman, Shigeru Urushibara-san (@ulsystems), here in Tokyo, Japan, and in this episode, we sort of flip the script. We had a brief discussion where he interviewed me. If you want a great discussion where there's a ton to learn... then you might want to check out this episode where I interviewed him in 2021! Otherwise, listen on. Thank you, Urushibara-san! And thank you, everyone. Here's to another amazing 13 years!

Hi, Spring fans!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already August 1, 2023??? Me either.

As I write this, I'm preparing some of my contributions for SpringOne at VMWare Explore 2023, happening next month in lovely Las Vegas, NV. Have you registered yet?

I'm working at the VMWare Tokyo office as I write this; I'm here for meetings and a JJUG appearance. My friends, there's a ton to get done today, so let's dive right into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring team legend Dr. David Syer on view rendering technologies, the latest-and-greatest, SpringOne 2023, and more
• The best way to use Testcontainers from your Spring Boot tests! ? info.michael-simons.eu
• Spring Cloud Kilburn (2022.0.4) is now available](https://spring.io/blog/2023/07/28/)
• Spring Shell 2.1.12, 3.0.7 and 3.1.3 are now available
• Hi Spring fans! I was lucky enough to do a (mostly virtual) Japanese Java User Group appearance last night here in the land of the rising sun, Tokyo, Japan! You can watch it here .
• Baeldung's updated their coverage of Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, too…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0.4 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2022.0.4 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.4 Release Train

This release is based on Spring Boot 3.0.9.

A complete list of issues resolved in this release can be found in this GitHub project.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Support for retry-aware load-balancing for ServiceInstanceListSupplier delegates has been added (1221)

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Upgraded OpenFeign/Feign 12.4 (878)
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to the legendary Dr. David Syer about view rendering technologies, SpringOne, and more.

Have you registered for SpringOne yet?

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