This Week in Spring - June 18th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I’ve just come from Paris, France, and now I’m in equally beautiful Krakow, Poland, for the amazing Devoxx PL event. We’ve got a ton of good stuff to dive into, so let’s get going!

• In last week’s installment of Spring Tips, I looked at Spring Boot 3.3’s new Software Bill of Materials support.
• Spring Tools 4.23.0 released.
• In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Google’s Cloud legend Abdel Sghiouar.
• Spring Framework 6.1.9, 6.0.22, and 5.3.37 available now.
• Spring Framework 6.2.0 M4 available now.
• Spring Data 2024.0.1 and 2023.1.7 released.
• Spring Tools 4.23.1 released.
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.7, 1.1.1 now available.
• Spring Security 5.8.13, 6.2.5, and 6.3.1 are now available.
• Spring for Apache Kafka 3.1.6 and 3.2.1 available now.
• A quick, but awesome, discussion of Spring Cloud AWS between Oleg Šelajev and Maciej Walkowiak.
• I love the nice new time-related debugging facilities for Spring applications in this new IntelliJ IDEA release!.
• Daniel Garnier-Moiroux has a nice blog on OAuth 2 and OpenID token expiration.
• Our friend Thomas Vitale has a nice blog on text classification with Java, Spring AI, and LLMs.
• Another amazing blog on Spring AI (this time incorporating Llama3 and pgvector).
• JetBrains Developer Advocate Anton Arhipov and Kerry Beetge have a great blog on static code analysis for Spring with Qodana.
• Nice! Apache Maven ships with a Maven Daemon (mvnd) that is shipped as a GraalVM native image.