On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 58 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Including one noteworthy change relating to Tomcat APR support. 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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 58 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.5.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 100 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Task decoration for scheduled tasks
• Vibur connection pool DataSourceBuilder support
• SSL bundle metrics

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.2 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 53 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 80 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 46 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 37 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of open source support for Spring Boot 3.2.x

Spring Boot 3.2.12 marks the end of open source support for Spring Boot 3.2.x. Please upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3.x or 3.4.x as soon as possible. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Boot 3.2.x is available…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 52 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.

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Logging is a long established part of troubleshooting applications and one of the three pillars of observability, next to metrics and traces. No one likes flying blind in production, and when incidents happen, developers are happy to have log files. Logs are often written out in a human-readable format.

Structured logging is a technique where the log output is written in a well-defined, often machine-readable format. This format can be fed into log management systems and enables powerful search and analytics capabilities. One of the most commonly used formats for structured logging is JSON.

With Spring Boot 3.4, structured logging is supported out of the box. It supports the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and Logstash…