| April 16, 2024 | On behalf of the Spring for GraphQL team, I am pleased to announce the availability of 1.3 RC1. This post describes the release. For more on other upcoming features in 1.3, see the The 1.3 release candidate builds on GraphQL Java 22, released earlier today. GraphQL Java 22 includes a lot of new features including major performance improvements, experimental support for the up and coming addition to the GraphQL spec, and much more. The release includes breaking changes too, and this is a good time to experiment in your environment. See the ..read more

| April 16, 2024 | On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the releases of Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-RC1, 1.2.4 and 1.1.7. release notes for complete details. To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the chapter of the reference documentation and the to become familiar with setup and configuration ..read more

| April 16, 2024 | On behalf of the entire team and everyone in the community who contributed, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring for Apache Kafka Both of these GA releases include a few improvements and bug fixes. For more details, see the following change logs. releases will include Spring for Apache Kafka In addition, we are pleased to announce the first release candidate for Spring for Apache Kafka 3.2.0 ( ). This release candidate includes new additions, feature enhancements, bug fixes, and ..read more

| April 18, 2024 | Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, more than 20 incredible years in the making, Spring founders Rod Johnson (@springrod) and Juergen Hoeller (@springjuergen) discuss Spring since its 1.0 release in 2004 ..read more

New method security annotations and capabilities On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the release candidate of Spring Security 6.3 is released. The 6.3 release brings several compelling features including You can read more about each of these in the What's New section of the 6.3 documentation and also see the exhaustive list of of features across the 6.3 release in the release pages for ..read more

| April 18, 2024 | On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.2.4, 6.1.9, and 5.8.12 are available now. In all cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements. To learn more, please visit the ..read more

| April 18, 2024 | On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot has been released and is now available from Maven Central. 46 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades . Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. If you're interested in helping out, check out the in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on or chat with the community on ..read more

| March 21, 2024 | Hi, Spring fans! Happy one-day-belated Java 22 release day to those who celebrate! To ring in the new release, we've got an extra special and incredible discussion with a Java legend - somebody who's been involved in the Java community and work for - Stuart Marks, or "Dr. Deprecator," as he's affectionately known in the community ..read more

| March 22, 2024 | A few Java libraries have shown up recently that use text templates, but compile to Java classes at build time. They can thus claim to some extent to be "reflection free". Together with potential benefits of runtime performance, they promise to be easy to use and integrate with GraalVM native image compilation, so they are quite interesting for people just getting started with that stack in Spring Boot 3.x. We take a look at a selection of libraries ( ) and how to get them running. The source code for the samples is in and each template engine has its own ..read more

Sam Brannen shares some good news: Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a null-safe Index operator for the Spring Expression Language (SpEL) is coming to Spring Framework 6.2! This is interesting, and a nice application of AI (do I even need to spell out "artificial intelligence" anymore?): this is a neat guide by community member Wim Deblauwe over on InfoQ: A Practical Guide to Building an API Back End with Spring Boot - version 2 James Ward, founder of the WebJars project and a legend in his own right, invites folks to contribute feedback on the new ..read more