This Month in Spring - March 2022

March 24, 2022 Josh Long

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Month in Spring! Can you believe we're already staring down April 2022? How're you doing? Spring is here for those in the northern hemisphere (including meee)! Astrologically and meteorologically, speaking, of course. I love this season. Longer days, greener grass, bluer skies, and more.

Next week, my family and I are headed to Hawaii for some much-needed R&R while my daughter has a week off. (It's hard to believe she might be going to college in another state in 18 months! We need all the family vacations we can get together! T_T)

Anyway, we've got a ton of cool stuff to look at so let's dive right into it!

First thing: Java 18 was released today! There are a ton of new features, including UTF-8 by default, a simple HTTP server, a reimplementation of core reflection to use method handles, an SPI for internet resolution, a more manageable JavaDoc attribute to simplify the inclusion of code snippets in JavaDoc comments, and previews of a bunch of unique new features including pattern matching for switch, Project Panama, the new Vector API (as in matrix multiplication, not a collection, exactly). You can also use a switch to disable finalization and finalizers, which you might want to try now to see if your application continues to do the right thing.
The Spring for GraphQL project has a Twitter account (@SpringGraphQL)!
A Bootiful Podcast: Elastic's Felix Barnsteiner on APM for Spring Developers
BellSoft is excited to announce its new agreement with VMware.
Blog: Meet Our Contributors - APAC (Aus-NZ region)
I was happy to be on the Kong podcast to talk about how Spring changed Java application development
Initial AOT support in Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3
JDK 18
Netty 5.0.0.Alpha1 released
SimonHarmonicMinor/sneaky-java: Java utilities to throw checked exceptions in a "sneaky" way.
Spring Data 2022.0.0-M2, 2021.2.0-M4, 2021.1.3, and 2021.0.10 released
Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 and 5.3.17 are available now
Spring Security 6.0.0-M3 and 5.7.0-M3 are available now
Spring Tips: Spring Shell and Spring Native
Spring Tools 4.14.0 released
Spring for GraphQL 1.0 Milestone 6 Released
Introducing Spring Cloud Alibaba 2021.0.1.0
In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at Hilla, a fantastic new web framework from Vaadin.
A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft Azure Developer Advocate Mark Heckler
OG Cloud-Native Cora Iberkleid put together a charming look on how to get resources in Kubernetes to "explain themselves"
Kai Tödter announced that he'd released version 1.3.0 of JSON: API for Spring HATEOAS
I'm honored to be counted among many amazing folks in this list of The Top 100 Influencers in #DevRel
Binaries for #OpenJDK 11.0.14.1 are out. This release addresses an issue with the HttpClient API in Java SE that missed a patch during the release of 11.0.14.
In this video, Dan Vega looks at what's new in Spring Boot 2.6. Dan just recently joined our team!
write your first Spring Batch Tasklet
A Bootiful Podcast: Reactive Streams cofounder, former deputy CTO at Lightbend, and legend Viktor Klang
Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2021.1.1 GA Release
GraphQL with Spring Boot java
Hidden gems in Java 16 and Java 17, from Stream.mapMulti to HexFormat
Introducing Spring Native for JHipster: Serverless Full-Stack Made Easy | Okta Developer
Mar 10 - Getting Started with Spring Authorization Server
Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.0-M1 Released
Spring Cloud Gateway CVE reports published
Spring Cloud Square 0.4.1 has been released
Spring Tips: Reliable Database Migrations with Liquibase and Spring Boot
I'm proud to stand with Ukraine, and it's nice to know my company is too: VMware Statement Regarding Ukraine ‑ VMware News and Stories
A Bootiful Podcast: InfoQ editor and Java Champion Dr. Alex Blewitt
Advanced Spring: Spring Boot Actuator Online Class
GraphQL with Spring Boot java
Leverage Java 17 New Features to Create Your Wordle Checker - JEP Café #10
We've just released Micrometer 1.7.9, 1.8.3, 1.9.0-M3, 2.0.0-M2, Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0-M2, and Micrometer Docs Generator 1.0.0-M1.
Spring Boot 2.5.10 is available now.
Spring Boot 2.6.4 is available now.
Spring Boot 2.7.0-M2 is available now.
Spring Cloud Gateway CVE reports published
Spring Native 0.11.3 is available now
Spring Session 2021.0.5 and 2021.1.2 released
Spring Shell 2.1.0-M3 is now available
Spring Tips: easy IoT integration with HiveMQ, Spring Integration MQTT, and Spring Native
toedter/spring-hateoas-jsonapi: A JSON: API media type implementation for Spring HATEOAS has a new release!

About the Author

Josh Long (@starbuxman) is a Spring Developer Advocate at VMware. Josh is a Java Champion, a Google Developer Expert for Kotlin, author of six books (including O'Reilly's "Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry") and the just released "Reactive Spring" (ReactiveSpring.io), six best-selling Livelessons video trainings (including "Building Microservices with Spring Boot Livelessons" with Phil Webb and "Spring Security Livelessons" with Rob Winch, and "Cloud Foundry Livelessons" with Josh McKenty), and an open-source contributor (Spring Boot, Spring Integration, Spring Cloud, Activiti and Vaadin). Josh also has a podcast, "A Bootiful Podcast," and does a series of screencasts, "Spring Tips", on YouTube (bit.ly/spring-tips-playlist). Josh routinely blogs on the Spring blog (spring.io/blog)
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