State of Spring Survey 2024 Results

News | Michael Minella | June 03, 2024 | ...

TL;DR; Download the State of Spring Survey 2024 report here!

We asked...and you answered. The State of Spring Survey 2024 walks through all of the latest trends in the Java and Spring ecosystems. Responded to by over 1400 respondents, we asked about virtual threads, testcontainers, and native compilation with GraalVM. You told us about Kubernetes, generative AI, and upgrade practices in your enterprise. The State of Spring Survey 2024 was the most comprehensive survey we have ever put out and we are pleased to be able to share the results with our community.

The report, available now at https://go-vmware.broadcom.com/state-of-spring-2024

Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0 & Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0 Available

Releases | Corneil du Plessis | June 03, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Functions Catalog 5.0.0 and Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2024.0.0 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

This is the first GA release to use the separate Spring Functions Catalog.

Release notes are available:

We welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or Spring Functions Catalog - GitHub or Stream Applications - GitHub.

Spring Cloud 2023.0.2 (OSS) and 2022.0.7 (Enterprise) Have Been Released

Releases | Glenn Renfro | May 31, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0.2 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2023.0.2 release notes for more information.

We are also pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0.7 Release Train is available today. More information can be found at https://spring.io/support .

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.2 Release Train

This release adds compatibility to Spring Boot 3.3.x as well as Spring Boot 3.2.x.

See the GitHub project for all changes made in…

Spring AI 1.0.0 M1 released

Releases | Mark Pollack | May 30, 2024 | ...

We are happy to announce the 1.0.0 Milestone 1 release of Spring AI.

This release has the following new features an improvements.

ChatClient Fluent API

The fluent API provides methods to construct a Prompt, which is then passed as input to the AI model. You create a ChatClient using the ChatClient.Builder object. You can obtain an auto-configured ChatClient.Builder from Spring Boot autoconfiguration or create one programmatically.

If you're familiar with other Spring client classes like WebClient, RestClient, and JdbcClient, this will feel familiar.

Here is a simple usage example

Spring Boot 2.7.21 and 3.0.16 are now available

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | May 30, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.21 and 3.0.16 have been released for support customers. The releases are available from https://packages.broadcom.com.

  • Spring Boot 2.7.21 ships with 17 bug fixes and dependency upgrades.
  • Spring Boot 3.0.16 ships with 40 bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

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

Spring Shell 3.1.12, 3.2.5 and 3.3.0-RC1 are now available

Releases | Janne Valkealahti | May 28, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.1.12, 3.2.5 and 3.3.0-RC1 has been released and are now available from Maven Central and Milestone Repo respectively.

Please see the release notes 3.1.12, release notes 3.2.5 and release notes 3.3.0-RC1 for more details.

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

How can you help?

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

This Week in Spring - May 27th, 2024

Engineering | Josh Long | May 27, 2024 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! And what a week it will be! I'm in Venice, Italy, on a little vacation, but tomorrow I begin a quick journey to beautiful Sofia, Bulgaria, where I'll be speaking at the amazing JPrime software show (it's my first time speaking there, though not even my 20th time speaking in Bulgaria!). I'm so looking forward to it.

Then, I turn right back around and head to Barcelona, Spain, for the not-to-be-missed Spring IO event! I love Spring IO, and you should too! It is, in my estimation, the premier Spring event in EMEA and an…

SBOM support in Spring Boot 3.3

Engineering | Moritz Halbritter | May 24, 2024 | ...

Spring Boot 3.3.0 has been released, and it contains support for SBOMs. SBOM stands for "Software Bill of Materials" and describes the components used to build a software artifact. In the context of this blog post, that's your Spring Boot application. These SBOMs are useful because they describe exactly what your application contains. With that information, you can assess if a security vulnerability affects your application, or use automated security tools to scan your applications and alert you on security vulnerabilities.

There are multiple SBOM formats out there, the most widely used ones are CycloneDX, SPDX, and Syft. Spring Boot 3.3.0 supports CycloneDX out of the box. The…

Spring Modulith 1.2, 1.1.5, and 1.0.8 released

Releases | Oliver Drotbohm | May 24, 2024 | ...

I am excited to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.2 alongside the service releases 1.1.5 and 1.0.8. The latter two contain a lot of bug fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. 1.2 most notably ships with new features:

  • Support for open application modules
  • Support for a package-info.java alternative for Kotlin
  • Indexes for event publication registry database tables (JDBC)
  • Spring AOT-generated classes excluded from verification
  • Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.3 (while retaining compatibility with 3.2 and 3.1)

Find more information in the full changelogs for 1.2 (RC1, M3, M2, M1), 1.1.5 and 1.0.8

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