It is finally here! Spring Batch 5.0 is now generally available from Maven Central. Spring Batch 5 is the culmination of two years of work, including dozens of improvements, features, and bug fixes by more than 50 contributors! On Behalf of the team, I would like to thank ALL contributors who had a role in this huge release!

This blog post walks through the major highlights of this new generation of the framework. You can find the details of all the changes in the release notes and the upgrade instructions in the migration guide.

What's new?

• New Java version baseline
• Major dependencies upgrade
• Full GraalVM native support
• Introduction of the new Observation API from Micrometer
• Execution context Meta-data improvement
• New default execution context serialization format
• SystemCommandTasklet enhancements
• Add support to use any type as a job parameter
• Improved job parameters conversion
• New Annotation Attributes in EnableBatchProcessing
• New Configuration Class for Infrastructure Beans
• Transaction Support in JobExplorer and JobOperator
• Automatic registration of a JobOperator with EnableBatchProcessing
• Test utilities configuration updates
• …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 44 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. 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.

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Hot on the heels of Spring Boot 3.0 GA, it's my pleasure to announce the availability of Spring Modulith 0.1. The release concludes the integration of the Moduliths project into the Spring ecosystem. I want to especially thank Dmitry Belyaev and Björn Kieling who helped a lot during the migration and contributed significant new features to the project, the event publication repository implementations for JDBC and MongoDB in particular.

For a general introduction into the project, please check out the original announcement and this InfoQ article.

Changelog | Reference documentation

Hi, Spring fans! Spring Boot 3 is here (or will be tomorrow, on the 24th of November, 2022, to be more precise!), bringing a fantastic new Ahead-of-Time (AOT) compilation engine that supports GraalVM native images. Join me, and we'll dive deep into the engine and its interactions with the Spring component model.

This video is a detailed masterclass on the new AOT engine. It starts by examining the everyday usecases of an application developer and delves deeper and deeper into the engine, treating concerns that library and framework developers will care about.

Enjoy!

Also, Happy thanksgiving…

I'm pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 1.1.0 is now available on Maven Central. This version will ship with Spring Boot 3.0.0 later this week.

Spring for GraphQL 1.0.0 was released 6 months ago, so why a new minor version now? The team initially planned a 1.1.0 release with one goal in mind: support Spring Framework 6.0 / Spring Boot 3.0 and adapt to the new baseline for that generation:

• Java 17
• Jakarta EE 9
• GraphQL Java 19

In addition, we shipped some new and noteworthy features we think you'll like:

Observability

Observability is a major theme across the Spring portfolio in this major new Spring Framework 6 generation. Spring projects now have their own, built-in instrumentation for metrics and traces based on the new Observation API from Micrometer. This new instrumentation in Spring for GraphQL replaces the former GraphQL Metrics support in Spring Boot 2.7. This is important to keep track…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.1 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.1 includes 21 fixes and improvements.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 0.4.0.

You can download it from Maven Central by using the module coordinates:

implementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:0.4.0'

See the release notes for complete details.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the Getting Started chapter of the reference documentation and the samples to become familiar with setup and configuration.

We would love to gather your feedback as we strive to…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 1.0.

You can download it from Maven Central by using the module coordinates:

implementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:1.0.0'

Spring Authorization Server has come a long way since its initial commit on April 2, 2020, as the APIs have stabilized and matured over this time. A lot of effort and care has been put into this project to ensure a robust foundation for its continued growth. This first major release delivers a full feature set…

On behalf of everyone involved, I'm pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 1.0.3 is now available from Maven Central. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 2.7.6 due for release later this week.

This release includes a number of enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and a couple of bug fixes. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

We're also about to release the 1.1.0 release, targeting Spring Boot 3.0.

How can you help?

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

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