On behalf of the Spring Framework framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that the second Spring Framework 6.1 milestone release is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now. This new version builds on the main 6.1 themes introduced in the first milestone and adds new ones: @Scheduled improvements and the introduction of RestClient.

Main themes status update

The Data Binding and validation worked has made progress and we have now completed the "Built-in Web Support for Method Bean Validation" umbrella issue and documented the feature accordingly.

Thanks to the Virtual Threads theme, blocking execution of WebFlux Controllers can now be scheduled on a VirtualThreadTaskExecutor…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.2.25.RELEASE, 5.3.29 and 6.0.11 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.2.25.RELEASE ships with 2 fixes improvements. This is an out-of-cycle release that will not be shipped with a new Spring Boot version, as Spring Boot 2.3.x is EOL.

Spring Framework 5.3.29 ships with 22 fixes and documentation improvements, including 3 fixes for regressions. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 2.7.14, to be released next week.

Spring Framework 6.0.11 ships with 71 fixes and documentation improvements, including 7 fixes for regressions. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.9 and 3.1.2, to be released next week…

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Spring Web Flow 3.0.0. This release is all about compatibility with Spring Framework 6 and Jakarta EE. The spring-webflow-sampes have been updated, and the commit history provides an example of changes necessary to upgrade. One significant change is the need to remove Tiles which has not migrated to Jakarta EE. The booking-mvc sample now uses Thymeleaf Layouts instead.

Once again special thanks to Ian Young, Scott Cantor, and Gábor Lipták for your help to make these updates available to the community!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long talk to Spring team legend Stéphane Nicoll (@snicoll) about Spring Boot, Apache Maven and Gradle, his journey to the Spring team, and so much more. This episode was recorded live from beautiful Barcelona, Spain, from the epic Spring I/O event in May of 2023!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.20.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release adds a number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

Can you believe Spring is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year? We could not have gotten here without our millions of Spring developers across the globe, thank you! Spring has been an essential tool for Java developers, and it continues to grow and innovate at a fast pace. From the onset, Azure and VMware Tanzu have been trusted partners to customers for running mission-critical Java and Spring workloads. Our commitment and fondness for the Java Spring developer community have never wavered.

Microsoft and VMware Tanzu Collaboration Continues

Microsoft collaboration with the Spring team…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in yummy, sunny Jakarta, Indonesia at the moment, preparing for a week of meetings and the SpringOne Tour Indonesia event later this week. I'll also be speaking in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on July 20th, 2023 . If you're in either of these regions, please come out and join me for what is sure to be a ton of fun on our journey to production!

Anyway, we've got a ton of stuff to dive into this week, so let's get to it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Jetbrains' Anton Arhipov on IntelliJ, Java, and so much more
• Active Health Check strategies with Spring Cloud Gateway
• A fluid, functional-style, non-reactive HTTP client for Spring: Introduce RestClient? spring-projects/spring-framework@0820210
• Logging in Spring Boot with Loki - Piotr's TechBlog
• How I deleted more than 1000 lines of code using Spring Retry
• ELK + Spring Boot: A Guide to Local Configuration
• the new Spring Cloud Gateway for Spring MVC.fn looks amazing!
• Interesting repository: …

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! This week Josh Long talks to Jetbrain's developer advocate Anton Arhipov, recorded live from the amazing Spring IO show in Barcelona, Spain!

Active health check strategies with Spring Cloud Gateway

Nowadays, applications are built as a collection of small independent upstream services. This accelerates development and allows modules to be focused on specific responsibilities, increasing their quality. This is one of the main advantages of using a microservice approach. However, jumping from one service to another can add extra latency, and this latency can be dramatically higher when the services are not responding.

If you run microservices, you want to prevent your upstream services from being called when they are not working…