Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm baaaaack in the USA for the first time in more than two months, and it feels great to be home!

I just concluded a tour of Asia, visiting

• Taipei, Taiwan
• Sydney, and the Blue Mountains, in Australia
• Seoul, S. Korea
• Singapore
• Jakarta and Bali, Indonesia
• Kuala Lumpur, Bali, and Penang, Malaysia
• Tokyo, Japan

i did public appearances in most of these cities, and it was a lot of fun. Thank you everyone that came out, and I can't wait to see you again soon!

I feel like I time-traveled. You remember during lockdown there was…

Hi, Spring fans! I just crossed 13 years on the Spring team! I just got to spend a lovely day in the presence of one of my heroes and friends, UL Systems founder and chairman, Shigeru Urushibara-san (@ulsystems), here in Tokyo, Japan, and in this episode, we sort of flip the script. We had a brief discussion where he interviewed me. If you want a great discussion where there's a ton to learn... then you might want to check out this episode where I interviewed him in 2021! Otherwise, listen on. Thank you, Urushibara-san! And thank you, everyone. Here's to another amazing 13 years!

Hi, Spring fans!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already August 1, 2023??? Me either.

As I write this, I'm preparing some of my contributions for SpringOne at VMWare Explore 2023, happening next month in lovely Las Vegas, NV. Have you registered yet?

I'm working at the VMWare Tokyo office as I write this; I'm here for meetings and a JJUG appearance. My friends, there's a ton to get done today, so let's dive right into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring team legend Dr. David Syer on view rendering technologies, the latest-and-greatest, SpringOne 2023, and more
• The best way to use Testcontainers from your Spring Boot tests! ? info.michael-simons.eu
• Spring Cloud Kilburn (2022.0.4) is now available](https://spring.io/blog/2023/07/28/)
• Spring Shell 2.1.12, 3.0.7 and 3.1.3 are now available
• Hi Spring fans! I was lucky enough to do a (mostly virtual) Japanese Java User Group appearance last night here in the land of the rising sun, Tokyo, Japan! You can watch it here .
• Baeldung's updated their coverage of Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3, too…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to the legendary Dr. David Syer about view rendering technologies, SpringOne, and more.

Have you registered for SpringOne yet?

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Look, I'm going to level with you. This is the view from where I'm staying on holiday right now in tropical Lankawi, Malaysia:

I'm super interested in this week's roundup, as always, but I'm also very interested in that oh-so-blue water. Let's get this show on the road!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Java legend Simon Martinelli on Vaadin, JavaOOQ, and so more
• Jul 20 - How VMware RabbitMQ Can Help You Build Tomorrow's Enterprise IoT Applications
• MQTT 5.0 support is coming in RabbitMQ 3.13
• Spring Framework 6.1 M3 released
• Spring Security 5.6.12, 5.7.10, 5.8.5, 6.0.5, and 6.1.2 are available now, including fixes for CVE-2023-34034 and CVE-2023-34035
• Want to know what VMWare can do to help you with Spring? Spring Solutions | VMware Tanzu
• This article looks at relative energy efficiencies across different JVMs. Among other things, we can see that GraalVM native images are very energy efficient. Java, writ large, …

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Java legend Simon Martinelli about Vaadin, Spring, JavaOOQ, and more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful Barcelona, Spain at the amazing Spring I/O show!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in crazy cool Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. If you're around, I'll be doing a presentation this Thursday the 20th of July, and I'd love to see you there!

Then, after a quick vacation, it's off to Tokyo, Japan, where I'll also be doing a public facing talk, and I'd love to see you there, too!

I'm busy preparing for SpringOne in Las Vegas - have you registered? It's going to be amazing! It'll be our first in-person event since the pandemic, and we can't wait to see y'all there.

This week's been a busy one and the community has…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talk to Spring team legend Stéphane Nicoll (@snicoll) about Spring Boot, Apache Maven and Gradle, his journey to the Spring team, and so much more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful Barcelona, Spain, from the epic Spring I/O event in May of 2023!

Spring Framework 6.1 M2 introduces the RestClient, a new synchronous HTTP client. As the name suggests, RestClient offers the fluent API of WebClient with the infrastructure of RestTemplate.

Fourteen years ago, when RestTemplate was introduced in Spring Framework 3.0, we quickly discovered that exposing every capability of HTTP in a template-like class resulted in too many overloaded methods. In Spring Framework 5, we therefore used a fluent API for the reactive WebClient. With RestClient we are introducing a HTTP client that offers an API similar to WebClient, and that uses the message converters, request factories, interceptors, and other underlying components of RestTemplate…