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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0 is generally available from Maven Central now! This is the start of a new framework generation for 2023 and beyond, embracing current and upcoming innovations in OpenJDK and the Java ecosystem. At the same time, we carefully designed it as a straightforward upgrade from Spring Framework 5.3.x for modern-day runtime environments.

As a major revision of the core framework, Spring Framework 6.0 comes with a Java 17+ baseline and a move to Jakarta EE 9+ (in the jakarta namespace), with a focus on the recently released Jakarta EE 10 APIs such as Servlet 6.0 and JPA 3.1. This provides access to the latest web containers such as Tomcat 10.1 and the latest persistence providers such as Hibernate ORM 6.1. Don't be stuck on Java EE 8, make the leap to the jakarta…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.24 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.24 includes 33 fixes and improvements.

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Hi, Spring fans! How're you doin' this fine Tuesday morning? I've returned home to San Francisco and am up and at 'em nice and early to catch a flight to Seattle, where I'll speak at the Java User Group tonight. If you're in Seattle, don't miss it!

We've got a ton of cool stuff to get into this week, but let's not bury the lede here: Spring Framework 6 comes out tomorrow, Wednesday, the 16th of November, 2022! And you know where to go to get the bits: the Spring Initialzr, start.spring.io!

Let's dive into this week's roundup!

• Did you see the new Reactor 2022.0.0 release? This release contains integration with Micrometer Tracing, context propagation, and plenty of other improvements. See this for more.
• Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 available now
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.5 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 available now
• Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 is available now
• Updates on Spring Cloud Stream 4.0.0 Schema Registry Support
• Coming with the RC of Spring Modulith: improved module canvas listing cross-module bean references (first image) and publicly exposed value types (second image).
• …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.10.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release contains an update of the Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and Spring Cloud versions. See the release notes for more information.

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As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub.

This blog gives an update on the Schema Registry support that is part of Spring Cloud Stream version 4.0.x.

Many enterprises use a schema registry for schema evolution use cases, such as the Confluent Schema Registry. Starting with version 1.1.x of Spring Cloud Stream until 3.0.0, we provided a schema registry server and AVRO-based schema registry client converters that can reconcile the schema from the schema registry server. Spring Cloud Stream version 3.0.0 moved the Schema Registry components into a top-level spring-cloud project, and Spring Cloud Stream included those in its BOM for the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 116 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This is the second release candidate and so doesn't include much in the way of new features. It does, however, bring a migration to Jakarta EE 10 APIs and a few changes to /actuator endpoints. Our final release is scheduled for November 24, 2022 so this is your last chance to provide feedback or raise issues for…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 includes 12 fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 later this week!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 is available now.

Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 includes fixes and improvements to the documentation. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 later this week!

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