Hi, Spring fans! It's here! It's finally here, at long last! Spring Boot 3!! And of course with Spring Boot 3.0 comes a whole portfolio of integrated projects that have also been updated! Remember, a huge theme in this release is support for GraalVM native images, and that's now supported across the board. You know what to do: start.spring.io.

I put together a Spring Tipds video introducing some of the major themes of Spring Framework 6 / Spring Boot 3.

I also did an in-depth look at the new GraalVM support powered by Spring's ahead-of-time (AOT) engine.

There's so much else to talk about this week, but I really can't stress this enough: Spring Boot 3 is here! In some ways, it feels like this release has been more than four years in the making! It's amazing, and I can't wait for people…

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Vault 3.0 is now generally available, and 3.0.0 can be found in Maven Central.

This release ships with several refinements and new features. Highlights of the new release include:

• A Java 17 baseline

• Support additional HTTP Clients, including the reactive JDK HTTP Client

• Support for Vault Repositories using versioned Key/Value secrets engines

There are far too many features to list them all here in detail, so head over to the release notes page in our wiki to find out more.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed…

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 3.0 is now generally available and 3.0.0 can be found in Maven Central.

This release is the culmination of 12 months work and over 5700 commits by 151 different individuals. A massive thank you to everyone that has contributed, and to all the early adopters that have been providing vital feedback on the milestones.

This is the first major revision of Spring Boot since 2.0 was released 4.5 years ago. It's also the first GA version of Spring Boot that provides support for Spring Framework 6.0 and GraalVM.

Highlights…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.14 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of life

It's just over a year since the release of Spring Boot 2.6.0 which means that, as per our open source support policy, 2.6.14 is the last release that's planned in the 2.6.x line. Releases may be made in the future, but only in response to a commercial support…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.2 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.2 includes 4 fixes and documentation improvements.

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It is finally here! Spring Batch 5.0 is now generally available from Maven Central. Spring Batch 5 is the culmination of two years of work, including dozens of improvements, features, and bug fixes by more than 50 contributors! On Behalf of the team, I would like to thank ALL contributors who had a role in this huge release!

This blog post walks through the major highlights of this new generation of the framework. You can find the details of all the changes in the release notes and the upgrade instructions in the migration guide.

What's new?

• New Java version baseline
• Major dependencies upgrade
• Full GraalVM native support
• Introduction of the new Observation API from Micrometer
• Execution context Meta-data improvement
• New default execution context serialization format
• SystemCommandTasklet enhancements
• Add support to use any type as a job parameter
• Improved job parameters conversion
• New Annotation Attributes in EnableBatchProcessing
• New Configuration Class for Infrastructure Beans
• Transaction Support in JobExplorer and JobOperator
• Automatic registration of a JobOperator with EnableBatchProcessing
• Test utilities configuration updates
• …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 44 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 | …

Hot on the heels of Spring Boot 3.0 GA, it's my pleasure to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 0.1. The release concludes the integration of the Moduliths project into the Spring ecosystem. I want to especially thank Dmitry Belyaev and Björn Kieling who helped a lot during the migration and contributed significant new features to the project, the event publication repository implementations for JDBC and MongoDB in particular.

For a general introduction into the project, please check out the original announcement and this InfoQ article.

Changelog | Reference documentation

Hi, Spring fans! Spring Boot 3 is here (or will be tomorrow, on the 24th of November, 2022, to be more precise!), bringing a fantastic new Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation engine that supports GraalVM native images. Join me, and we'll dive deep into the engine and its interactions with the Spring component model.

This video is a detailed masterclass on the new AOT engine. It starts by examining the everyday usecases of an application developer and delves deeper and deeper into the engine, treating concerns that library and framework developers will care about.

Enjoy!

Also, Happy thanksgiving…