Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.17.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2022-12 release (new and noteworthy)

early access to new experimental features

Among a number of bug fixes and minor improvements, this release introduces experimental support for:

• Spring Boot version validations: The IDE will tell you when there is a newer major, minor, or patch version available for your Spring Boot project
• Spring Boot upgrade support: The tooling will help you upgrading your existing projects to newer Spring Boot versions, including upgrades to newer patch and minor versions, as well as newer major versions (e.g. upgrading to Spring Boot 3)
• Spring specific validations and refactorings: The…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? You know what I've wanted to do? See my friends on the Spring team in person since the pandemic descended. And, I'm overjoyed to relate, I've just had the privilege of a nice meeting with several of them last night. And I'm going to see more of them today! Seriously. I feel like I won the lottery. I've missed my friends. Hug your friends and family, friends. You never know when the next pandemic (or life in general) will put distance between you and them. So, in order to close that distance, I'm going to go…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.4 and 3.0.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/release, Maven Central and https://repo.spring.io/milestone respectively.

3.0.0-M3 is first milestone which builds on Spring Boot 3.0.0 GA version.

Please see the release notes 2.1.4 and release notes 3.0.0-M3 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

With the recent announcement of Spring Boot 3.0 going GA, some of you may be interested in upgrading your Spring Web Services-based applications to take full advantage of this. The Spring WS team has upgraded our set of sample apps to help you carry that out.

The main branch now tracks the version of samples with all these updates. (The prior version of samples built on Spring Boot 2.7 are now on that repository’s 1.0.x branch.)

Some of the highlights are covered below.

A LOT of our tools have moved!

Back in the olden days, much of our XML processing tools were inside the JDK. But ever since…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2022.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.0 RC3 release

Click here to see all issues in this release.

Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-RC3 requires Spring Boot 3.0.0.

Spring Cloud Contract

• Removes Gradle's support for src/test/resources/contracts checking (#1848)

Check the latest migration guide entry for more information.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Added the possibility to disable global CORS configuration (#2779)
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Java Champion Gunnar Morling (@gunnarmorling) about messaging middleware, Debezium, and more.

Hi, Spring fans! It's here! It's finally here, at long last! Spring Boot 3!! And of course with Spring Boot 3.0 comes a whole portfolio of integrated projects that have also been updated! Remember, a huge theme in this release is support for GraalVM native images, and that's now supported across the board. You know what to do: start.spring.io.

I put together a Spring Tipds video introducing some of the major themes of Spring Framework 6 / Spring Boot 3.

I also did an in-depth look at the new GraalVM support powered by Spring's ahead-of-time (AOT) engine.

There's so much else to talk about this week, but I really can't stress this enough: Spring Boot 3 is here! In some ways, it feels like this release has been more than four years in the making! It's amazing, and I can't wait for people…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Integration 6.0.0 is now generally available and can be found in Maven Central.

This release is the culmination of more than a year of work. A massive thank you to everyone that has contributed, and to all the early adopters that have been providing vital feedback on the milestones.

This version is fully based on Spring Framework 6.0, Spring Data 2022.0, Spring for GraphQL 1.1, Spring WebServices 4.0 and many other major releases of Spring portfolio projects which contribute to their respective integration modules. On the other hand Spring Integration 6.0 is a part of recently released Spring Boot 3.0…

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Vault 3.0 is now generally available, and 3.0.0 can be found in Maven Central.

This release ships with several refinements and new features. Highlights of the new release include:

• A Java 17 baseline

• Support additional HTTP Clients, including the reactive JDK HTTP Client

• Support for Vault Repositories using versioned Key/Value secrets engines

There are far too many features to list them all here in detail, so head over to the release notes page in our wiki to find out more.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed…