This Week in Spring - February 20th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you this fine 20th of February, 2024? I’m doing alright on this rainy 20th of Feburary here in San Francisco, and I hope you are too! We’ve got a ton of things to get into this week so let’s dive right into it!

• Have you checked out the Spring Health Assessment report? It’s a great way to give your project’s dependencies a health checkup. Spring Health Assessment
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.3 is now available
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.0.14, and 3.2.0 M1 are now available
• The first milestone of Spring Data 2024.0.0 available
• [Spring Data 2023.1.3 and 2023.0.9 available](<https://spring.io/blog/2024/02&gt;

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• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Java Developer Advocate at Oracle, Nicolai Parlog. A Bootiful Podcast
• Spring Framework 6.1.4, 6.0.17, and 5.3.32 are now available
• Have you heard of OpenFGA before? It’s an interesting way to model authorities in a secure system, and it looks like we might see an integration with Spring Security. Check it out and sound off. We’d love to get your feedback
• The New Relic state of the Java ecosystem report is out and it, like a Shakespearean tragedy, is a well-written but sad story. 2023 State of the Java Ecosystem. People: this is why we can’t have nice things! Let’s please try and use Java 21? All together now. Ready? One, two, three… go!
• Have you tried Wim Deblauwe’s amazing error handling library for Spring Boot? It’s dope.
• I liked this video looking at some trends in modern Java and Spring Boot. Nice job, Siva! Modern Java and Spring Boot

I’ve been busy the last few weeks! I did a bunch of videos you might want to see.

• Here’s a relatively popular video I did at Voxxed Days CERN talk looking at Spring Boot 3
• All Spring Tips installments. There are some good videos there. Recently, I did a video on Spring Boot 3.1, and Java 21, and Spring Boot 3.2, and Spring’s event subsystem, and Spring Data JDBC, and the humble DataSource, and CQRS with the Axon Framework and Spring Boot, and the new Spring AI project, and Spring Boot TestJars, and the Spring Authorization Server