Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Look, I'm going to level with you. This is the view from where I'm staying on holiday right now in tropical Lankawi, Malaysia:

I'm super interested in this week's roundup, as always, but I'm also very interested in that oh-so-blue water. Let's get this show on the road!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Java legend Simon Martinelli on Vaadin, JavaOOQ, and so more
• Jul 20 - How VMware RabbitMQ Can Help You Build Tomorrow's Enterprise IoT Applications
• MQTT 5.0 support is coming in RabbitMQ 3.13
• Spring Framework 6.1 M3 released
• Spring Security 5.6.12, 5.7.10, 5.8.5, 6.0.5, and 6.1.2 are available now, including fixes for CVE-2023-34034 and CVE-2023-34035
• Want to know what VMWare can do to help you with Spring? Spring Solutions | VMware Tanzu
• This article looks at relative energy efficiencies across different JVMs. Among other things, we can see that GraalVM native images are very energy efficient. Java, writ large, …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Security 5.6.12, 5.7.10, 5.8.5, 6.0.5, and 6.1.2 are available now.

Please refer to the releases page for more detail on what is included in each release.

Those versions fix the following CVEs:

• CVE-2023-34034: WebFlux Security Bypass With Un-Prefixed Double Wildcard Pattern
• CVE-2023-34035: Authorization rules can be misconfigured when using multiple servlets

It is also important to remember that the 5.8 version of Spring Security is a special release designed to help you to migrate to Spring Security 6.0, therefore if you are planning to upgrade your applications, using that version combined with the special migration guide…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.14 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 27 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 49 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 60 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 141 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Initial support for virtual threads when running on Java 21
• Auto-configuration for Spring Framework's new RestClient
• Logging changes for improved observability
• Numerous dependency upgrades, including new milestones of several Spring projects

Please see the release notes for more…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Java legend Simon Martinelli about Vaadin, Spring, JavaOOQ, and more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful Barcelona, Spain at the amazing Spring I/O show!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Batch 5.1 is now available from our milestone repository.

This milestone release comes with the following features:

• Dependencies upgrade
• Virtual Threads support
• Memory management improvement in the JpaItemWriter
• New synchronized decorators for item readers and writers

This blog post walks through these features in more details. For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Dependencies upgrade

This milestone release upgrades Spring dependencies to the…

I am happy to announce the availability of Spring HATEOAS 2.0.6, 2.1.2 and 2.2 M2. All releases solely ship a fix for a regression in our AOT reflection metadata generation so that applications building native images continue to work on the upcoming Spring Boot releases.