I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 1.1 RC2. We took the chance to incorporate feedback from the community to tweak a few internals of features newly introduced in the 1.1 generation. We have also managed to sneak a few new ones into the release:

• Support for AWS SNS / SQS in event externalization (contributed by Maciej Walkowiak) GH-344
• Allowing to define a listener identifier via @ApplicationModuleListener GH-346
• Re-instantiated, general compatibility with Spring Boot 3.1 and Framework 6.0 GH-357
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.2 RC2 GH-354

Find the full release change log…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 69 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This release attempts to fix a few issues that were found with RC1. Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Oracle vice president Thomas Wuerthinger about the project he created and leads, GraalVM. This was recorded live from Devoxx Belgium 2023!

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2023.0.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.0 Release Train

This release is based upon Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC1.

You can find a complete list of issues addressed in this release by viewing the release project.

Spring Cloud Stream

All the notable changes introduced in Spring Cloud Stream 4.1.0-RC1 can be found here.

The following modules…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.20.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

important highlights

• (Spring Boot) Completions for Spring Properties show up 10 times faster initially (as fast as on the consecutive invocations)
• (Spring Boot) Various performance optimizations around symbols scanning and Java reconciling
• (Eclipse) Early access builds available for upcoming Eclipse 2023-12 release

Detailed changes can be found in the release notes: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/releases/tag/4.20.1.RELEASE

downloads

To download the…

Reactor 3.6.0 is coming and going to be GA on November 14. This blogpost describes new features that are included in this upcoming release!

Virtual Threads support

Today, everyone talks about Java 21 and Project Loom. The Project Reactor team hears that and sees value in that project within our ecosystem. With this upcoming release, we introduce support for the VirtualThread implementation.

Why is it handy?

Let's consider the following code sample:

package io.projectreactor.samples;

import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

import reactor.core…

Hi Spring fans, and Happy Halloween from the Spring team to those who celebrate!

I hope your evening is fun and your day free of scary bugs!

My friends, we've got some interesting stuff to look at this week so let's dive right into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Mr. Spring in Action, Craig Walls
• Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2022.0.0 available now
• Spring Statemachine 4.0.0-M1 is now available
• laech/java-stacksrc: Decorates stack traces with source code snippets. - this is super cool. It's a way to decorate stack traces with source code snippets.
• Blog: Introducing ingress2gateway; Simplifying Upgrades to Gateway API
• Blog: Plants, process and parties: the Kubernetes 1.28 release interview
…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 4.0.0-M1 is now available from Spring repos.

Please see the release notes 4.0.0-M1 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

On behalf of the Spring Framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that the second Spring Framework 6.1 release candidate is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now.

Spring Framework 6.1.0-RC2 ships 51 fixes and improvements.

This is our last stop before the official 6.1.0 release mid-November!

What's next

Check out our What's New page for details about the specific features shipped so far.

The second Spring Boot 3.2 release candidate will be released next week.