The Problem

One of Spring Data JPA’s handy features is letting you plugin in custom JPA queries through its @Query annotation.

This allows some flexiblity because you are still able to offer sort parameters to the consumers of your app. Check out the example below:

interface SampleRepository extends CrudRepository<Employee, Long> {

    @Query("select e from Employee e where e.firstName = :firstName")
    List<Employee> findCustomEmployees(String firstName, Sort sort);

}

Spring Data JPA will turn this custom query into a JPA query when provided not just with a criteria (firstName) but also a custom sort via findCustomEmployees("Alice", Sort.by("lastName"))…

I'm pleased to announce that the Spring for GraphQL 1.0.4 and 1.1.3 maintenance versions are now available on Maven Central.

Spring for GraphQL 1.0.4 includes 6 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 2.7.10, to be released this Thursday.

Spring for GraphQL 1.1.3 includes 12 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.5, to be released this Thursday.

How can you help?

If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-graphql tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Vault 3.0.2 and 2.3.3 versions are available now.

Spring Vault 3.0.2 ships with 7 fixes and documentation improvements Spring Vault 2.3.3 ships with 13 fixes and selected improvements.

Those versions fix the following CVE:

CVE-2023-20859: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log Sourced from Failed Revocation of Tokens

Those versions will be shipped with Spring Cloud in the next days. Until then, please override the dependency version in your project.

For Gradle builds in build.gradle:

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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the 3rd Milestone of the Spring Data 2023.0 release train as well as service releaes 2022.0.4 & 2021.2.10. These releases ship with improvements, including fixes for regressions.

The upcoming Spring Boot 3.0.5 and 2.7.10 releases are going to pick up the service releases for your convenience.

New features included in 2023.0.0 Milestone 3 are amongst others:

• A new scroll API to support offset and key based pagination
• Improvements in JPA query parsing for HQL and JPQL
• Support for MongoDB's explicit field level encryption
• Aggregate reference request parameters in Data REST
…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.2.23.RELEASE is available now. This release has been requested by Spring Framework commercial support customers and is available on Maven Central.

Spring Framework 5.2.23.RELEASE ships with 3 fixes, including a fix for the following CVE:

• cve-2023-20861: Spring Expression DoS Vulnerability.
• 5.2.22.RELEASE was not vulnerable to cve-2023-20860, so no fix was required.

This version will not be shipped with a Spring Boot release as 2.3.x is out of commercial support. You can manually upgrade Spring Framework in your Spring Boot Maven or Gradle builds. Upgrading to a supported Spring Boot version is…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Framework 6.0.7 and 5.3.26 versions are available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.7 ships with 28 fixes and documentation improvements, including 2 fixes for regressions. Spring Framework 5.3.26 ships with 40 fixes and documentation improvements.

Those versions fix the following CVEs:

• cve-2023-20860: Security Bypass With Un-Prefixed Double Wildcard Pattern
• cve-2023-20861: Spring Expression DoS Vulnerability

Those versions will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.5 and 2.7.10, to be released Thursday. In…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll look at the fantastic Vaadin Flow library, which has recently been updated for Spring Boot 3, and how it can help you be happier.

the code is available, as usual, here

this episode features special guest Marcus Hellberg, VP developer relations from Vaadin, and my colleague Tiffany Jernigan

NO DEVELOPER ADVOCATES WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS VIDEO

Kotlin is a beautiful language that makes it trivial to take old Java libraries and make them much more concise, just by virtue of the Kotlin syntax itself. It shines, however, when you write DSLs.

Here's some inside baseball for you: the Spring teams do their level-headed best to be cohesive, to align on core themes, and to make Spring better than the sum of its parts. You see this in every major release: XML namespaces in Spring Framework 2.0. Java Config in 3.0. Conditionals and autoconfiguration when Spring Boot 1.0 first shipped alongside Spring Framework 4.0. Reactive programming with…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Batch lead Mahmoud Ben Hassine (@FMBENHASSINE) about the latest and greatest in Spring Batch.

notes

• Submit your talk to SpringOne@Explore, being held August 21-24, 2023, in lovely Las Vegas, Nevada!
• I wrote an e-book looking at how to do AOT processing with Spring Boot 3 and GraalVM. It's free - and a fairly quick read - so get it while you can!
• I streamed this interview with Mahmoud live on my channel - you can watch it there, too, if you prefer
• I wrote a blog looking at some of the amazing Kotlin DSLs in the wide and wonderful world of Spring
• I did a video introducing Spring Boot 3 over on the Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA Youtube channel
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