This Week in Spring - April 16th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I’m writing this from beautiful Paris, France, ahead of the amazing Devoxx France event. I’ve come to almost all of these events over the years. It’s hard to believe it’s been more than a decade since the show was first announced. I remember when these franchise editions - Devoxx UK, Devoxx FR, Devoxx PL, Devoxx MA, Devoxx UA, etc. - were new and novel. Now, rumor has it, this year edition of Devoxx FR will be even larger than Devoxx Belgium! What a coup. I love Devoxx. I’ve talked about it endlessly, but last year’s Devoxx (the Belgian one) was, possibly, my favorite conference experience (outside of SpringOne and Spring I/O). There was something in the air. It was electric. The conversations, the optimism, the content, etc. Impeccable. And Devoxx doesn’t stop. Did you hear they jsut a new local in-IDE AI plugin called Devoxx Genie? Amazing. All that to say… I’m happy to be here and can’t wait to connect with the community!

Speaking of community… there’s a ton to get through this week, so let’s dive right into it!

• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.5 available now
• Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.1.0-RC1 available now
• Spring HATEOAS 2.1.5, 2.2.2, and 2.3 RC1 released
• Spring Data 2023.1.5 and 2023.0.11 released
• Spring Data 2024.0.0 goes RC1
• Spring Framework 6.2.0 M1: all the little things
• Kicking off the Spring Framework 6.2 milestone phase
• Spring Framework 6.1.6, 6.0.19, and 5.3.34 available
• In last week’s A Bootiful Podcast I talked to JetBrains Developer Advocate Marit van Dijk
• Spring Academy Pro Content is now free to Access
• in last week’s installment of Spring Tips, I look at the Spring Expression Language
• this looks interesting - full line code completion in JetBrains IDEs
• WireMock 3.5.2 Released