Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the core framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that the first Spring Framework 6.1 milestone release is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now. This release introduces the main themes for the 6.1 generation, with initial features for all themes present in 6.1.0-M1 already:

• Embracing JDK 21 LTS
• Virtual Threads (Project Loom)
• JVM Checkpoint Restore (Project CRaC)
• Data Binding and Validation, revisited

Note that Spring Framework 6.1 provides a first-class experience on JDK 21 and Jakarta EE 10 at runtime while retaining a JDK 17 and Jakarta EE…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 3.0.4! This release includes only dependency updates.

You can find the complete details in the release notes.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.28 and 6.0.10 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.28 ships with 17 fixes and documentation improvements, including 3 fixes for regressions. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 2.7.13, to be released next week.

Spring Framework 6.0.10 ships with 64 fixes and documentation improvements, including 7 fixes for regressions. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.8 and 3.1.1, to be released next week.

The next Spring Framework releases are scheduled for July 13th, with…

This Month in Spring - June 13th, 2023

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in beautiful Taipei, eating delicious food and meeting amazing people in the sweltering weather. How're you doin'? I've got to join a meeting, so I'll make this quick. One quick thing though: Microsoft's Mark Heckler and I are doing a webinar later today - register now and join us - looking at how to take Spring Boot applications to production on Microsoft Azure and with Microsoft technologies. This is going to be a ton of fun, don't miss it!

• I love Matt's latest tutorial, Getting Started with Spring Boot and SAML - YouTube
• Securing Spring Boot Applications With SSL
• Spring Boot Application Testing and Development with Testcontainers
• Spring Security Kerberos 2.0.0 available now
• Why Is Field Injection Not Recommended?
• Thomas Schuely just announced the latest iteration of his project Spring ViewComponent
• I'll be speaking in Seoul, register now and join me!
• I'll be speaking in Singapore, register now and join me!
• I'll be speaking here in Taipei, register now and join me!
• I'll be speaking in Sydney, register now and join me!
• It was great to …

Spring Shell 3.0.5 and 3.1.1 are now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.0.5 and 3.1.1 has been released and are now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 3.0.5 and release notes 3.1.1 for more details.

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

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I'm happy to announce that a Spring Security Kerberos 2.0.0 is now available from maven central.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Hi, Spring fans! In this (relatively quick) installment, recorded live from the lovely Spring I/O 2023, Josh Long talks to Microsoft's Sean Li about some of the latest and greatest in the Azure ecosystem for Spring developers.

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are key components of securing communications between systems in a layered or service-oriented architecture. Spring Boot applications in such an architecture often accept incoming network connections or create outgoing connections, and developers are tasked with configuring applications to work in such a secure environment.

If you've ever worked with the Java security and SSL APIs, you're probably aware that this is not a particularly fun task. It often involves multiple trips to stackoverflow.com to copy and paste code. There are a…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what an insane week it's been! Long story short, I've spent 10-12 hours a day over the last five days migrating a dozen differnet applications and services from one GKE cluster to another, taking the time to update things as much as possible. In the case of at least one Vue.js application, this meant some major reworking of the codebase. It's also meant rewriting lots of Github Actions with the new best-practices and patterns, which I confess has been painful.

Once everything's fully migrated (soon, I hope!), I think a…