Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.17.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2022-12 release (new and noteworthy)

early access to new experimental features

Among a number of bug fixes and minor improvements, this release introduces experimental support for:

• Spring Boot version validations: The IDE will tell you when there is a newer major, minor, or patch version available for your Spring Boot project
• Spring Boot upgrade support: The tooling will help you upgrading your existing projects to newer Spring Boot versions, including upgrades to newer patch and minor versions, as well as newer major versions (e.g. upgrading to Spring Boot 3)
• Spring specific validations and refactorings: The…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.4 and 3.0.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/release, Maven Central and https://repo.spring.io/milestone respectively.

3.0.0-M3 is first milestone which builds on Spring Boot 3.0.0 GA version.

Please see the release notes 2.1.4 and release notes 3.0.0-M3 for more details.

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

How can you help?

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2022.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.0 RC3 release

Click here to see all issues in this release.

Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-RC3 requires Spring Boot 3.0.0.

Spring Cloud Contract

• Removes Gradle's support for src/test/resources/contracts checking (#1848)

Check the latest migration guide entry for more information.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Added the possibility to disable global CORS configuration (#2779)
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Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Integration 6.0.0 is now generally available and can be found in Maven Central.

This release is the culmination of more than a year of work. A massive thank you to everyone that has contributed, and to all the early adopters that have been providing vital feedback on the milestones.

This version is fully based on Spring Framework 6.0, Spring Data 2022.0, Spring for GraphQL 1.1, Spring WebServices 4.0 and many other major releases of Spring portfolio projects which contribute to their respective integration modules. On the other hand Spring Integration 6.0 is a part of recently released Spring Boot 3.0…

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Vault 3.0 is now generally available, and 3.0.0 can be found in Maven Central.

This release ships with several refinements and new features. Highlights of the new release include:

• A Java 17 baseline

• Support additional HTTP Clients, including the reactive JDK HTTP Client

• Support for Vault Repositories using versioned Key/Value secrets engines

There are far too many features to list them all here in detail, so head over to the release notes page in our wiki to find out more.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed…

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 3.0 is now generally available and 3.0.0 can be found in Maven Central.

This release is the culmination of 12 months work and over 5700 commits by 151 different individuals. A massive thank you to everyone that has contributed, and to all the early adopters that have been providing vital feedback on the milestones.

This is the first major revision of Spring Boot since 2.0 was released 4.5 years ago. It's also the first GA version of Spring Boot that provides support for Spring Framework 6.0 and GraalVM.

Highlights…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.14 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of life

It's just over a year since the release of Spring Boot 2.6.0 which means that, as per our open source support policy, 2.6.14 is the last release that's planned in the 2.6.x line. Releases may be made in the future, but only in response to a commercial support…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.2 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.2 includes 4 fixes and documentation improvements.

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It is finally here! Spring Batch 5.0 is now generally available from Maven Central. Spring Batch 5 is the culmination of two years of work, including dozens of improvements, features, and bug fixes by more than 50 contributors! On Behalf of the team, I would like to thank ALL contributors who had a role in this huge release!

This blog post walks through the major highlights of this new generation of the framework. You can find the details of all the changes in the release notes and the upgrade instructions in the migration guide.

What's new?

• New Java version baseline
• Major dependencies upgrade
• Full GraalVM native support
• Introduction of the new Observation API from Micrometer
• Execution context Meta-data improvement
• New default execution context serialization format
• SystemCommandTasklet enhancements
• Add support to use any type as a job parameter
• Improved job parameters conversion
• New Annotation Attributes in EnableBatchProcessing
• New Configuration Class for Infrastructure Beans
• Transaction Support in JobExplorer and JobOperator
• Automatic registration of a JobOperator with EnableBatchProcessing
• Test utilities configuration updates
• …