Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Spring time is here! Astrologically and meteorlogically, speaking, of course. I love this season. Longer days, greener grass, bluer skies, and more. Next week, my family and I are headed to Hawaii for some much-needed R&R while my daughter has a week off from school. (It's hard to believe she might be going to college in another state in 18 short months! We need all the family vacations we can get together! T_T)

As always, we've got a lot to look at today, so let's dive right into it!

• First thing: Java 18 was released today! There are a ton new features, including UTF-8 by default, a simple HTTP server, a reimplementation of core reflection to use method handles, an SPI for internet resolution, an easier JavaDoc attribute to simplify the inclusion of code snippets in JavaDoc comments, and previews of a bunch of amazing new features including pattern matching for switch, Project Panama, the new Vector API (as in matrix multiplication, not a collection, exactly). There's also a switch you can use to disable finialization and finalizers, which you might want to try now to see if your application continues to do the right…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2021.1.3 and 2021.0.10. Both releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot 2.6.5 respective 2.5.11 are going to pick up these releases in the upcoming days.

Along with the service releases, we released the next milestone 2021.2.0-M4 of the 2021.2 release train. Spring Boot 2.7.0-M3 will pick up this release soon. We have summarized the new and noteworthy changes in our 2021.2 release notes.

We have also released the next milestone 2022.0.0-M3 of the 2022.0 release train. Spring Boot 3.0.0-M2 will pick up this release. We have summarized the new and noteworthy changes in our 2022.0 release notes…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 and 5.3.17 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.17 includes 17 fixes and improvements as well as a fix for CVE-2022-22950: Spring Expression DoS Vulnerability and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 includes 33 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch.

This milestone brings a first batch of migration of our AOT (Ahead Of Time) efforts from Spring Native, paving the way for Native support in the wider Spring ecosystem. See the follow-up blog post…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Elastic's Felix Barnsteiner about APM for Spring developers.

• make log onboarding easier. Start here.
• use this to make slow methods show up in traces

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the joy of writing fast, native CLI applications with Spring Boot, Spring Shell, GraalVM, and Spring Native

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.14.0 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 2022-03 release (new and noteworthy)

fixes and improvements

• (VSCode) fixed: VSCode Spring boot tools 1.30.0 error trying to find JVM (#726)
• (VSCode) fixed: vscode "Problems" diagnostic entries lack "source" field (#725)
• (VSCode) fixed: orphan vscode extension processes left running (#704)
• (VSCode) fixed: deadlock in language server process avoids process to be shutdown (#741)
• (VSCode) fixed: Outline View is broken again on Windows (#742)
• (VSCode) fixed: boot-java.live-information.automatic-tracking.on is not working on vscode (#733)
• (VSCode) fixed: Java 17 is mis-identified as Java 8 (#713)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Deadlock with Spring LSP in Eclipse 4.23 with STS 4.23 nightlies (#729…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a good amount of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• Introducing Spring Cloud Alibaba 2021.0.1.0
• In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at Hilla, an amazing new web framework from Vaadin
• A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft Azure Developer Advocate Mark Heckler
• OG Cloud-Native Cora Iberkleid put together a really nice look on how to get resources in Kubernetes to "explain themselves"
• Kai Tödter announced that he's released version 1.3.0 of JSON:API for Spring HATEOAS
• I'm honored to be counted among many amazing folks in this list of The Top 100 Influencers in #DevRel
• Binaries for #OpenJDK 11.0.14.1 are out. This release addresses an issue with the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former fellow Spring Developer Advocate at Tanzu, and current Java Developer Advocate at Microsoft, friend, ally, and altogether amazing human being, Mark Heckler (@mkheck).

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment we'll look at the new frontend/backend web framework from the fine folks at Vaadin: Hilla!

code is available at github.com/spring-tips/vaadin-hilla