Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 14th, and you know what that means? NINE MORE DAYS until Spring Boot 3.2 drops (on the day of the US holiday of Thanksgiving, no less)!

Some key features include:

• virtual threads
• initial CRaC support
• more sophisticated observability with Micrometerio
• JdbcClient, RestClient
• ActiveMQ Testcontainers/ Docker Compose support
• Kotlin 1.9.0

I can't wait for the next release. I've been playing with it for months. It builds on the strenghts of Spring Boot 3.0 and 3.1. 3.0 brought GraalVM native images, and 3.…

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment I talk to Azul Deputy CTO Simon Ritter (@speakjava), recorded live at Devoxx Belgium 2023!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.14, 3.0.9, 3.1.5 and 3.2.0-M3 has been released and are now available from Maven Central and Spring Repos respectively.

Please see the release notes 2.1.14, release notes 3.0.9, release notes 3.1.5 and release notes 3.2.0-M3 for more details.

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

How can you help?

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Hi, Spring fans!

Can you believe we've already turned the calendar page to November? Time sure is a swift developer, deploying months as if they were minor versions in an ever-evolving application. As we adjust our clocks to fall back, waving a reluctant goodbye to daylight savings time, the encroaching evening arrives with a brisk efficiency. Yes, it's dark outside, a bit too early for my liking, if I'm honest. The shortened days remind us that while we may not be in control of the celestial clock, we do have the power to harness the hours we're given. This is the perfect time to settle in…

In Spring Boot 3.2.0, we're adding the ability for embedded web servers to hot-reload SSL certificates and keys. That means you can rotate your SSL trust material without restarting your application. Hot reloading is supported for Tomcat and Netty embedded web servers.

Let's see that in action!

First, we're going to create our SSL private key and matching certificate using OpenSSL:

mkdir certs
cd certs
openssl req -x509 -subj "/CN=demo-cert-1" -keyout demo.key -out demo.crt -sha256 -days 365 -nodes -newkey rsa 

This creates a private key stored in certs/demo.key and a matching (self-signed) certificate with the common name "demo-cert-1" in certs/demo.crt…

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…

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 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…

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!