Structured logging in Spring Boot 3.4

Engineering | Moritz Halbritter | August 23, 2024 | ...

Logging is a long established part of troubleshooting applications and one of the three pillars of observability, next to metrics and traces. No one likes flying blind in production, and when incidents happen, developers are happy to have log files. Logs are often written out in a human-readable format.

Structured logging is a technique where the log output is written in a well-defined, often machine-readable format. This format can be fed into log management systems and enables powerful search and analytics capabilities. One of the most commonly used formats for structured logging is JSON.

With Spring Boot 3.4, structured logging is supported out of the box. It supports the Elastic Common Schema (ECS) and Logstash

Spring Boot 2.7.21, 3.0.16, and 3.1.13 available now

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | August 23, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.22, 3.0.17, and 3.1.13 have been released for support customers. The releases are available from https://packages.broadcom.com.

  • Spring Boot 2.7.22 ships with 17 bug fixes and dependency upgrades.
  • Spring Boot 3.0.17 ships with 35 bug fixes and dependency upgrades.
  • Spring Boot 3.1.13 ships with 46 bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

The next 2.7.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x releases for support customers are planned for 3 months' time.

Spring Modulith 1.3 M2, 1.2.3, and 1.1.8 released

Releases | Oliver Drotbohm | August 23, 2024 | ...

It is my pleasure to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.3 M2, 1.2.3, and 1.1.8. They all contain bug fixes and upgrades to the latest versions of dependencies. Here are the most important features of the releases:

  • Support for nested application modules (1.3 M2 only). See the reference documentation for details. – GH-578
  • Event publication completion now issues a by-id query to significantly improve performance and reduce load on the database (1.3 M2 only). – GH-258
  • Minor performance improvements for event completion (all releases). – GH-749

For details, please check out the change logs for 1.3 M2, 1.2.3, and 1.1.8. We appreciate any kind of feedback, in particular regarding the milestone release, in the GitHub discussions

Spring Boot 3.2.9 Available Now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | August 22, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 68 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow |

Spring Boot 3.3.3 available now

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | August 22, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.3.3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 73 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow |

Spring Security 6.4.0-M2 is available now

Releases | Marcus Hert Da Coregio | August 21, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Security 6.4 is released.

This second milestone release brings several compelling features including:

  • Extended Annotation Expression Placeholders Support to to @AuthenticationPrincipal and @CurrentSecurityContext
  • Use inline CSS for default login and logout page
  • SAML 2.0 Now Supports OpenSAML 4 and 5
  • Saml 2.0 Refreshable, Expiry-Aware Asserting Party Metadata Source
  • SAML 2.0 Cacheable RelyingPartyRegistrations
  • LDAP Supports UnboundID 7
  • Kotlin Supports @PreFilter and @PostFilter
  • OIDC Backchannel Logout Accepts logout+jwt Tokens
  • Make protected resources requests with RestClient

This Week in Spring - August 20th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | August 20, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment in This Week in Spring! And happy week-before-SpringOne! I'm so excited I could spit! As you might imagine, AI, cloud native architecture, and so much more are top-of-mind. I love AI, and all its many applications. In that spirit, let's get ChatGPT to write a little poem for us!

'Twas the week before SpringOne, and all through Las Vegas, Java devs were arriving, their excitement contagious. Spring Boot and Kotlin, all polished with care, In hopes that new features soon would be there. Workshops and sessions, each bright in their light, Promising…

Get the Spring newsletter

Stay connected with the Spring newsletter

Subscribe

Get ahead

VMware offers training and certification to turbo-charge your progress.

Learn more

Get support

Tanzu Spring offers support and binaries for OpenJDK™, Spring, and Apache Tomcat® in one simple subscription.

Learn more

Upcoming events

Check out all the upcoming events in the Spring community.

View all