This Month in Spring - November 2023

November 14, 2023 Josh Long

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's November 14th, and you know what that means? NINE MORE DAYS until Spring Boot 3.2 drops (on the day of the US holiday of Thanksgiving, no less)!

Some key features include:

  • virtual threads
  • initial CRaC support
  • more sophisticated observability with Micrometerio
  • JdbcClient, RestClient
  • ActiveMQ Testcontainers/ Docker Compose support
  • Kotlin 1.9.0
  • hot reloading of SSL trust materials

I can't wait for the next release. I've been playing with it for months. It builds on the strenghts of Spring Boot 3.0 and 3.1. 3.0 brought GraalVM native images, and 3.1 brought Testcontainers and Docker Compose support. This release brings with it Project Loom and CRaC support. It's never been so easy to be so scalable, fast, and productive!

This month's roundup is epic, and I can't wait to get into it, but, seeing as we're also only nine days from the US holiday of Thanksgiving, a day in which we celebrate that which we are thankful for, let me say: thank you, my friends. I know I can speak on behalf of the Spring team, too. We couldn't do what we do without you, a fact for which I remain eternally grateful. Thank you, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Alright my friends, there's a ton to get into in this month's roundup, so let's dive right into it!

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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