Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I catch up with my friend Joram Barrez, cofounder of Flowable, an amazing and opensource workflow engine, on their latest and greatest, AI, Spring, and so much more. #workflow #bpmn #apache2 #springboot #java

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the third Milestone for Spring Integration 6.4.0 generation.

In addition the regular bug fixes and dependency upgrades were release as Spring Integration 6.3.4 and 6.2.9.

Here are some notable improvements and new features in Spring Integration 6.4:

• First class support for IndexAccessor from SpEL and JsonIndexAccessor implementation (shout out to Sam Brannen for contribution);
• Performance and memory improvements for dynamic integration flow registrations;
• Control Bus Management via ControlBusCommandRegistry and deprecation for SpEL-based (and Groovy) Control Bus components;
• The ControlBusController at /control-bus to expose an endpoint for Control Bus Management via REST API;
• Fix JdbcMetadataStore for PostgreSQL and MySQL (and cover with respective tests);
• Introduce an MqttMessageNotDeliveredEvent to be emitted from the MqttActionListener.onFailure()…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the third Milestone for Spring AMQP 3.2 generation.

Some highlights of this release:

• Based on the latest dependencies;
• Found so far bug fixes;
• Distinguish exchange and routingKey properties in the RabbitMessageSenderContext for better mapping into the Open Telemetry conventions.

See more info in the Release Notes.

In October we are heading for RC1, which is is going to include further improvements for Open Telemetry conventions. So, give it a try - and feedback is welcome!

Cheers, 
Artem

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Batch 5.2 is now available from our milestones repository. This blog post walks you through the main changes in Spring Batch 5.2:

• Dependencies upgrade
• Query hints support in JPA item readers
• Data class support in JDBC item readers
• Configurable line separator in RecursiveCollectionLineAggregator
• Job registration improvements

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Dependencies upgrade

In this release, the Spring dependencies are upgraded to the…

On behalf of everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce the availability of Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M3 and patch GA releases for 3.2.4 and 3.1.9. We thank everyone who contributed to these releases.

Release Notes

See the release notes for more details:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.3.0-M3

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.2.4

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.1.9

Spring Boot Integration

The patch releases (3.2.4 and 3.1.9) will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.10 and 3.3.4 respectively. The 3.3.0-M3 release will be integrated with Spring Boot 3.4.0-M3…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Authorization Server 1.4.0-M2.

See the 1.4.0-M2 release notes for complete details.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the Getting Started chapter of the reference documentation and the samples to become familiar with setup and configuration.

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Hi, Spring fans! Last week I was in scintilliating Seoul, Korea, and then tantalizing Tokyo, Japan, and now I'm in marvelous Mumbai, India, at the airport, actually, headed to New Delhi, India. It's been a busy week for me and even busier a week for the community, so let's dive into it!

• Java 23 is here! Happy Java 23 day to those who celebrate! Now to wait for SDKMAN to pick it up...
• In last week's podcast episode, I (finally!) got to sit down with Spring creator Rod Johnson.
• Spring Tools has some cool new upgrades.
• I love this documentary looking at the success of Kotlin.
• Nice tip from Spring community member and JetBrains developer advocate Pasha Finkelshteyn: when you put a cron pattern like * 2 */3 * * 2 inside an @Scheduled annotation in a Spring application, IntelliJ IDEA explains what you just wrote!. Speaking of IntelliJ, the new EAP release is out and has some truly cool AI-centric features…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.0-M2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

The release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.0-M3 release.

This release includes numerous enhancements, documentation improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades.

Notable new features include:

• Message Container Startup Policy - you can now configure the message listener container startup failure policy to stop, continue, or retry (more details)

• Message Container Factory Customizers (Spring Boot) - the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.0-M3 has introduced a generic message container factory customizer (PulsarContainerFactoryCustomizer<T extends PulsarContainerFactory<?, ?>>) that can be used to further configure one or more of the auto-configured message listener container factories that back the @PulsarListener, @PulsarReader, and @ReactivePulsarListener (more details)

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.10 and 1.1.4 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.10 and 3.3.4.

These patch releases includes numerous dependency upgrades.

Please see the release notes (1.0.10 and 1.1.4) for more details.