On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Framework 6.0.8, 5.3.27 and 5.2.24.RELEASE versions are available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.8 ships with 60 fixes and documentation improvements, including 5 fixes for regressions. Spring Framework 5.3.27 ships with 20 fixes and documentation improvements, including 4 fixes for regressions. Spring Framework 5.2.24.RELEASE ships with 3 fixes.

Those versions fix the following CVE:

• cve-2023-20863: Spring Expression DoS Vulnerability

Those versions will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.6 and 2.7.11, to be released next Thursday. In the meantime, you can update your existing Spring Boot application to pick up…

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Flow 3.0 RC1 is now available from the Spring milestone repository.

As mentioned in the 3.0 M1 announcement, milestone 1 did not include JSF support. This release changes that and upgrades the Spring Faces module to a Spring Framework 6, Jakarta EE, and Java 17 baseline. The spring-webflow-samples, including JSF samples, have been upgraded to the latest, and you can use sample changes as pointers for your own upgrades.

Spring Web Flow has also migrated from JIRA to GitHub issues recently, and that means you can now search, create, and watch both issues and pull requests, from the project's GitHub issues…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0.2 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2022.0.2 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.2 Release Train

See all issues and pull requests included in this release here.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Added support for external name services using the Fabric8 DiscoveryClient (#1243)
• Add Pod metadata and annotations to ServiceInstance (#1254)

Spring Cloud Contract

• Allow sendMessage to handle body from file (.1867)
• Relaxed SSL validation with RestTemplate interceptors (#1869)
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Dear Spring community,

Today I'm excited to share with you news that Spring Integration extension project for AWS and AWS Kinesis Binder for Spring Cloud Stream have finally been moved to AWS Java SDK v2, their respective milestones 3.0.0-M2 & 4.0.0-M1 are available from Spring Milestone repository.

I cannot tell that this was a pleasant work to do because it has turned to be not just a plain dependencies upgrade and namespace renaming. The whole AWS SDK API was changed to more modern Java style, including CompletableFuture composition and Stream API, lambda-style configuration, generated…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.1.0-M2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 81 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Auto-configuration for Spring Authorization Service
• Improved Testcontainers integration
• Improved auto-configuration for Spring for GraphQL

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull…

I'd like to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 0.5.1. The release primarily contains an important bug fix (the spring-modulith-runtime module accidentally contained a Logback configuration file only intended for test usage) and the usual upgrade to the latest Spring Boot version. Find more information in the full changelog, as well as reference documentation.

In case you are wondering about what the project is all about, Voxxed Days Zurich have published "Spring Modulith – Spring for Architecturally Curious Developers":

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 0.2.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This is the second GA minor release of the framework. Although 0.2.0 still lives in the experimental Spring projects it is in the process of moving into the main Spring projects as follows:

• The core will move into spring-projects/spring-pulsar (targeting mid-April)
• The autoconfiguration will move into spring-projects/spring-boot (targeting the Spring Boot 3.2.0 release)
• The binder will move into spring-cloud/spring-cloud-stream (targeting the SCSt 4.1.0 release)
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Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Integration 6.1.0-M2 is now available from Spring Milestone repository.

In addition bug fixes versions 5.5.17 and 6.0.4 have been released. They also include upgrades to the latest point versions of dependencies with their bug fixes.

The Spring Integration 6.1 version is a natural evolution of 6.x generation with fixes and improvements which didn't make it into 6.0. Plus we listen to community and make some possibly but convenient for target projects breaking changes.

Some highlights of this new version…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 40 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Java 20 Support

Following the GA release of Java 20 earlier this week, Spring Boot 3.0.5 adds support for Java 20.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…