Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring Framework

Engineering | Josh Long | November 24, 2024 | ...

The Spring Framework 6.2 release notes provide a much more detailed look at all the new features. I won’t rehash all of them here, but here are some of the features that caught my eye:

  • Improved generic type safety in auto wiring sorting.
  • Smarter, more optimized Spring Expression Language expressions.
  • More efficient handling of resources in web applications, as well as in the WebJars support.
  • Refinements to Spring’s JMS support and STOMP-over-WebSocket support.
  • Improved testing support with the new HTMLUnit dependency, AssertJ-style MvcTester for Spring MVC tests, and much improved mocked beans in tests.
  • Support the concept of @Fallback beans, essentially the mirror image of @Primary beans.
  • Background bean initialization.
  • Improved binding of data to constructors.

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring Integration

Engineering | Josh Long | November 24, 2024 | ...

Spring Integration 6.4 is your one-stop shop for all matters of enterprise application integration. So it supports numerous messaging and integration patterns and even more numerous adapters for all manner of technologies - SFTP, FTP, Redis, Apache Pulsar, Apache Kafka, JDBC, TCP/IP, etc. So, as you might have surmised, there’s just no way to keep up with them. The release notes do a pretty good job, so I’ll list some of my favorites.

  • The remote file system inbound adapters now use the clearFetchedCache() method to remove references from the cache for unprocessed remote files.
  • The Spring Integration distributed lock mechanism has a method - LockRepository#delete - that now returns the result of removing ownership of a distributed lock.
  • similarly, the Redis-backed implementation of distributed locks - RedisLockRegistry - throws a ConcurrentModificationException if the ownership of the lock is expired.
  • there is now a convenient Consumer<SshClient> to allow for further customization of the internal SshClient

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring Modulith

Engineering | Josh Long | November 24, 2024 | ...

When Spring Boot first came out, I would tell people at talks that Spring Boot is like pair programming with the Spring team. It provided the convention-over-configuration to allow you to stand up infrastructure and get something going quickly. But it didn’t provide much architectural guidance. No "rails," as it were, regarding how you structured your application. And this was OK, I think, since Spring Boot isn’t a one-trick pony. You can use it for CLIs, monoliths, web applications, batch jobs, streaming and integration processors, microservices, GRPC services, Kubernetes operators, etc…

Bootiful Spring Boot 3.4: Spring Security

Engineering | Josh Long | November 24, 2024 | ...

Spring Security 6.4.1 is your one-stop shop for authenticated and authorized items, and this release is a doozie! The release notes brim with the possibilities!

The release notes are a lie!

I mean, they’re not a lie. They just don’t do a good job of capturing and conveying how awesome this release is. There are more user-facing toys in this release than in many previous releases. This might be my favorite Spring Security release since at least it sprouted a Java configuration DSL!

Look at those release notes. See those puny sections on Passkeys and One-Time Token Login? Yah. That’s the lie…

What's new in Spring Modulith 1.3?

Engineering | Oliver Drotbohm | November 22, 2024 | ...

After half a year of development, Spring Modulith 1.3 GA has been released. It is packed with new features, improvements, and – best of all – community contributions. Let me walk you through some of the most interesting ones.

Baseline Upgrades

As usual, a new minor version of Spring Modulith upgrades to the latest releases of both Spring Boot and Spring Framework, 3.4 and 6.2 respectively. That said, we still remain compatible with the previous generations of each of them so that you can selectively upgrade to Spring Modulith 1.3 without having to the latest Boot and Framework versions.

The…

Spring Modulith 1.3 GA released

Releases | Oliver Drotbohm | November 22, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am delighted to announce the avability of Spring Modulith 1.3 GA. After 6 months of development, the release ships with the following highlights:

  • Upgrades to Spring Boot 3.4 and Spring Framework 6.2.
  • Support for nested application modules and external application module contributions.
  • Optimized integration test execution via a JUnit Jupiter extension.
  • New deleting and archiving event publication completion modes.
  • By-ID event publication completion significantly improving performance.
  • Support for MariaDB, Oracle DB and Microsoft SQL Server in the JDBC-based Event Publication Registry.
  • Event externalization into Spring's MessageChannel abstraction to, for example trigger Spring Integration flows.

Spring Boot 2.7.23, 3.0.18, and 3.1.14 available now

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | November 21, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.23, 3.0.18, and 3.1.14 have been released for support customers. The releases are available from https://packages.broadcom.com.

  • Spring Boot 2.7.23 ships with 15 bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.
  • Spring Boot 3.0.18 ships with 28 bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.
  • Spring Boot 3.1.14 ships with 34 bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

The next 2.7.x, 3.0.x, and 3.1.x releases for support customers are planned for 3 months' time. The first 3.…

Spring Boot 3.4.0 available now

Releases | Andy Wilkinson | November 21, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 3.4

The highlights of the 3.4 release include:

  • Structured logging
  • Support for defining additional beans of the same type as those that are auto-configured
  • Expanded virtual thread support
  • Improved support for Docker Compose and Testcontainers
  • Numerous Actuator enhancements, including info and health information for SSL certificates
  • Improved image building capabilities, including out-of-the-box support for ARM
  • Auto-configuration for MockMvcTester, an AssertJ-based alternative to MockMvc

Spring Cloud 2022.0.9 (aka Kilburn) Has Been Released

Releases | Ryan Baxter | November 21, 2024 | ...

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Cloud 2022.0.9 Release Train is available for support customers. The release can be found in https://packages.broadcom.com.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.9 Release Train
  • This release is compatible with Spring Boot 3.0.18 and 3.1.14.
  • Spring Cloud Contract 4.0.9 has dependency upgrades.
  • Spring Cloud Netflix 4.0.7 has dependency upgrades.
  • Spring Cloud OpenFeign 4.0.8 has dependency upgrades.

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