Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! When last we spoke, I was in Las Vegas, NV, for the JavaOne show. It was amazing! I'm in sunny Singapore, then off to Malaysia and Thailand. It's the first time I've been to any of these places since 2019! How good it is to be back! I've so missed it.

The Spring team is busy preparing for both Spring Boot 3 (and the Spring Framework 6 release that underpins it) and SpringOne 2022. Have you booked your ticket for SpringOne 2022 yet? It's going to be held in sunny San Francisco, and - of course - it'll be the absolute best…

When designing software systems, architects and developers have plenty of architectural options to choose from. Microservice-based systems have become ubiquitous in the last couple of years. However, the idea of monolithic, modular systems has also regained popularity recently. Independent of the architectural style ultimately selected, the individual applications comprising the overall system need their structure to be evolvable and able to follow changes in business requirements.

Traditionally, application frameworks have provided structural guidance by providing abstractions aligned with technical concepts, such as Spring Framework’s stereotype annotations (@Controller, @Service, @Repository, and so on). However, shifting the focus to align code structure with the domain has proven to lead to better structured applications that are ultimately more understandable and…

The Reactor Netty 1.0.24 release on October 11 included fix for CVE-2022-31684 affecting Reactor Netty HTTP Server. Users are encouraged to update as soon as possible.

Reactor Netty is used internally in many frameworks including Spring WebFlux and its WebClient. If you have a Spring Boot application, you can upgrade to Reactor BOM 2020.0.24.

It is finally here! The first release candidate of Spring Batch 5 is now available from our milestone repository. In this release, we worked on the following items:

• Execution context Meta-data improvement
• GemFire support removal

This blog post walks through these two changes in details. For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Execution context Meta-data improvement

In addition to what Spring Batch already persists in the execution context with regard to runtime information (like the step type, the restart flag, etc), this release adds an important detail in the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 27 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

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

Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC2 includes 28 fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC1 later today!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 31 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxma) talks to his friend, Microsoft's Asir Selvasingh (@asirselvasingh), about Azure Spring Apps, Java at Microsoft, Spring, application security, and more. Want to learn more? Join us at SpringOne (6-8 December 2022)!

Want to meet amazing people like Asir? Join us at SpringOne 2022! Register now and get $200 off with this discount code S1VM22_Advocate_200.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 135 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This is our first release candidate for Spring Boot 3.0, which we expect to release November 24, 2022. We are not expecting any more features to be added at this point, and we will only be making API changes if we find issues.

This release is the culmination of 11 months of work and is the first release to fully…