This Week in Spring - May 27th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it will be! I’m in Venice, Italy, on a little vacation, but tomorrow I begin a quick journey to beautiful Sofia, Bulgaria, where I’ll be speaking at the amazing JPrime software show (it’s my first time speaking there, though not even my 20th time speaking in Bulgaria!). I’m so looking forward to it.

Then, I turn right back around and head to Barcelona, Spain, for the not-to-be-missed Spring IO event! I love Spring IO, and you should too! It is, in my estimation, the premier Spring event in EMEA and an amazing opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest in the wide and wonderful world of Springdom. Will you be there? I hope so!

As always, it’s that time of year when we have a ton of new releases leading up to and including the latest Spring Boot installment, Spring Boot 3.3, which just dropped a few days ago! It has a ton of exciting features, including:

• Jersey observability
• Flyway 10
• Infinispan 15
• CDS support
• Observability improvements: for example, support for Micrometer’s @SpanTag, a process InfoContributor, and Prometheus 1.x support
• Spring Security improvements
• Virtual threads-aware WebSocket support
• Base64 resources
• SBOM Actuator Endpoint
• Bitnami container images
• Service connections for LDAP, ActiveMQ, Artemis
• Embedded web server SSL with SNI
• Much improved documentation!
• A ton of new dependency upgrades

For more, obviously, feel free to check the release notes.

Of note, of course, is that Spring Boot 3.1 and earlier are now no longer under open-source support, so be sure to upgrade!.

I feel like this super cute dog that my partner Tammie found in Sicily must feel: happy to be in the mix!

So, as you can imagine, we’ve got a ton of things to get into, so let’s dive right into it! It all just makes me so happy!

• Spring Boot 3.3 was released!
• Spring Modulith 1.2, 1.1.5, and 1.0.8 released. This latest release, 1.2, depends on Spring Boot 3.3
• Spring Boot teammate Moritz Halbritter has a nice post on the new SBOM (software bill-of-materials) support in Spring Boot 3.3
• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to JetBrains’ Tagir Valeev, a fellow Java Champion and IntelliJ IDEA Java legend
• I love this blog by community legend Simon Verhoeven on the top seven (yes, it’s a listicle, but it’s really good!) observability improvements in Spring Boot 3.3
• Also, there’s a new service release of Spring Boot, 3.2.6
• Spring Boot 3.1.12 is also available
• Spring Framework 6.2.0-M3 is available now. Be sure to check out the What’s New page here
• Spring Framework 6.1.8, 6.0.21, and 5.3.36 are also available now
• Spring Integration 6.3, 6.2.5, and 6.1.9 are available
• Spring Batch 5.0.6, 5.1.2 available now
• Spring Authorization Server 1.3 Goes GA
• Spring Session 3.3 goes GA
• Good stuff for Azure Spring Apps users in this new blog: Deploy and Scale Spring Batch in the Cloud - with Adaptive Cost Control
• Spring Security 6.3.0 goes GA
• Spring for GraphQL 1.3.0 Released
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.2.0, 3.1.5, and 3.0.17 available now
• The documentation for HashiCorp Vault now includes a section on reloading passwords with Spring Cloud @RefreshScope
• This JetBrains blog by Aleksey Stukalov and Catherine Edelveis offers a nice look at IntelliJ IDEA’s insights from the Spring Boot point of view