This Week in Spring - May 5th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's May 5th, 2026, and I'm in Mainz, Germany, for the legendary JAX conference! It's been infinitely far too long since I've been at this amazing show, and I'm oh-so happy to be back here! Tonight, after my two talks here, I...

This Week in Spring – March 18th, 2025

Hi, Spring fans! I just got back from the amazing JavaOne show held in Redwood Shores. It was a fun, uproarious event and a great chance to reconnect with tons of friends, old and new. I love this community! One of the central highlights of this show? Java 24 is here, finally! And, as usual, we'v...

This Week in Spring - November 26th, 2024

This Week in Spring - November 26th, 2024 Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Happy Spring Boot 3.4 release month to those who celebrate! And, also, Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! Spring Boot 3.4 brings with it long-anticipated updates to the entire...

This Week in Spring - Tuesday, April 23rd, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've had a really busy, wonderful week, as always, so let's dive right into it! We want you! ...to submit a talk to SpringOne 2024, in sunny Las Vegas! Hurry, the CFP closes May 3rd! Spring Shell 3.1.11, 3.2.4, and 3.3.0-m1...

Introduction to Transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Applications

We are starting a new blog series that focuses on working with transactions in Spring Cloud Stream Kafka applications. This blog series covers many low-level details of writing transactional applications with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka. By the end of this blog series, we hope to give yo...

GHSA-CRQF-Q9FP-HWJW Spring-Kafka has Java Deserialization vulnerability When Improperly Configured

In Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.9 and earlier and versions 2.9.10 and earlier, a possible deserialization attack vector existed, but only if unusual configuration was applied. An attacker would have to construct a malicious serialized object in one of the deserialization exception record headers...

PT-2023-4776 · Spring · Spring For Apache Kafka

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Spring for Apache Kafka versions 3.0.9 and earlier Spring for Apache Kafka versions 2.9.10 and earlier Description: The issue is related to a deserialization attack vector in Spring for Apache Kafka. An attacker would have to construct a...