Spring Security 6.4.1 is your one-stop shop for authenticated and authorized items, and this release is a doozie! The release notes brim with the possibilities!

The release notes are a lie!

I mean, they’re not a lie. They just don’t do a good job of capturing and conveying how awesome this release is. There are more user-facing toys in this release than in many previous releases. This might be my favorite Spring Security release since at least it sprouted a Java configuration DSL!

Look at those release notes. See those puny sections on Passkeys and One-Time Token Login? Yah. That’s the lie…

The Spring Framework 6.2 release notes provide a much more detailed look at all the new features. I won’t rehash all of them here, but here are some of the features that caught my eye:

• Improved generic type safety in auto wiring sorting.
• Smarter, more optimized Spring Expression Language expressions.
• More efficient handling of resources in web applications, as well as in the WebJars support.
• Refinements to Spring’s JMS support and STOMP-over-WebSocket support.
• Improved testing support with the new HTMLUnit dependency, AssertJ-style MvcTester for Spring MVC tests, and much improved mocked beans in tests.
• Support the concept of @Fallback beans, essentially the mirror image of @Primary beans.
• Background bean initialization.
• Improved binding of data to constructors.
• …

The new release of Spring Batch 5.2 has a ton of features! Spring Batch is a compelling way to handle large but finite sequential data access. Think: reading from an SQL database and writing to a CSV, or reading from an FTP server and writing out an analysis of a MongoDB - batch processing. You know what this is. Half the job (pardon the pun!) is the integration of various sources of data and multiple sinks of data. The other aspect, as you can imagine with workloads that take a long time and could fail, is maintaining durable and extensive metadata related to each batch job’s run. Again, I…

Hi, Spring fans! Happy Spring Boot 3.4.0 release day to those who celebrate! Today I'm joined by both Terence Lee, from Heroku, and my friend DaShaun Carter, and we talk about platforms, buildpacks, and more. #heroku #paas #buildpacks,

Hi, Spring fans! How are you? Can you believe we're already staring at the end of the month? It's that time of the year when we see new releases, and the new releases reflect that frenzy! Soon: Spring Boot 3.4.0! Are you updated? Make sure you're updated!

Remember: Spring projects leave open source support after a year. So, roughly, when Spring Boot 3.4.0 drops, Spring Boot 3.2.0 and earlier won't be supported anymore. If you want to know where you stand, check the support windows on the various projects' pages

• Spring Framework 6.2.0 available now! This foundational piece kicks off our release cycle for the season. Remember: we do new releases of Spring Framework and Spring Boot every six months! Spring Framework 6.2 brings new baseline dependencies, removed APIs, tweaked Priority behavior in the core container, deeper generic type matching, @Fallback beans, SpEL updates, smarter resource loading in web…

Hi, Spring fans, JVM enjoyers, and cloud natives! Have I got a treat for you today! We're going to be talking to my longtime pal Ken Sipe. #groovy #java #kotlin #go #rust #spring #jvm

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

• Spring Cloud 2024.0.0-RC1 (aka Moorgate) has been released
• In this installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Gradle developer advocate Baruch Sadogursky
• good news everybody! GraalVM will now support jcmd, which allows you to bring diagnostics and monitoring of native images even closer to the Hotspot experience. JFR, heap dumps, thread dumps, JMX, and NMT are already available!
• Modern Java is amazing
• I'll be speaking at VOXXED Days Amsterdam next year. Will you be there?
• this French language post on how to integrate Langchain4J with Spring is pretty amazing
• the latest Pkl release …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to legendary Gradle Developer Productivity Engineering guru (formerly of JFrog) and hero to the JVM-language community, Baruch Sadogursky, recorded live from Dr. Venkat Subramaniam's amazing conference, Dev2Next 2024!

This Week in Spring - November 5th, 2024

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 5th of November, 2024, and, um, I - an American - am desperately trying to keep calm and carry on. I did everything I can do (VOTE!), and so it's with considerable enthusiasm that I dive into this week's (hopefully distracting) roundup!

• Dr. David Syer announcing the Spring GRPC project
• a Spring Boot and GraalVM native image application, demonstrated by awesome Oracle GraalVM developer advocate Alina Yurenko
• understanding the Spring Boot @SpringBootApplication annotation
• understanding the lifecycle of a Spring Boot application
• there's never been a better time to be a Java and Spring developer!
• A New Developer's Journey, in 2024
• Super cool! Java 24 is targeting a fix to allow developers to synchronize code on virtual threads and avoid pinning
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Hi, Spring fans! How're things? It's almost Halloween! I'm so excited! I'm going as a PHP program. Boooooooo...t. I'm writing this from the amazing Vaadin Create conference in Frankfurt, Germany, about to do my keynote for an amazing, Spring-loving audience here. So, without further ado, let's dive right into it!

• RestClient support for OAuth 2 in Spring Security 6.4
• Spring Modulith 1.3 RC1, 1.2.5, and 1.1.10 released. The RC has several cool new contributions, including one from my friend and teammate Cora Iberkleid introducing an archiving event publication completionm mode; and one contribution from me, that supports externalizing events with Spring Integration MessageChannels. Nice! Get the bits now!
• An awesome blog from Marcin Grzejszczak: Let's Use OpenTelemetry with Spring
• Spring Boot 3.4.0 RC1 is available now
• in last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to GraalVM benevolent dictator …