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Headed to #Devnexus this week? So is the Spring team! 🍃

Beyond this lineup of sessions with your favorite speakers and topics, we will have limited-edition trading cards! Collect the full set by attending our talks.

See the full Spring & Tanzu schedule here: go-vmware.broadcom.com/vmware-tanzu...

8305250: Unnecessary "unknown enum constant" warning emitted by javac when dependency has optional annotations with enums by lahodaj · Pull Request #29818 · openjdk/jdk Consider snippet like: @UnresolvableAnnotation int f1; @UnresolvableAnnotation(unresolvable = 0) int f2; @UnresolvableAnnotation(unresolvable=UnresolvableEnum.A) int f3; javac will currently handl...

The #OpenJDK team is finally considering NOT emitting an "unknown enum constant" warning for optional annotations (which breaks builds with -Werror)! 😱

github.com/openjdk/jdk/...

I would warmly welcome that for #Java! 👏🏼

Spring Framework 6.2.16 and 7.0.4 Available Now Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

🍃 #SpringFramework 6.2.16 and 7.0.4 are now available and come with lots of bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Get 'em while they're hot! 🤓

spring.io/blog/2026/02...

Reactive Java with Project Reactor Over the past decade, the Java ecosystem has gradually abandoned the idea that increasing the number of threads is the scalable solution to growing load. Cloud-native implementations, containerized wo...

New post from Matteo Rossi on reactive programming in Java using Project Reactor. Learn how to build non-blocking applications with backpressure support.

foojay.io/today/reacti...

#Java #ProjectReactor #ReactiveProgramming

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Excited to share that as of today, I am joining the Spring AI team (@spring-ai.bsky.social) to work on Spring AI 2.0 and future versions. I will continue to be part of the Spring Framework team and will split my time between the 2 projects.

#spring #ai #java

Spring Data JDBC Made Easy with IntelliJ IDEA | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog In this article, you will learn how to use Spring Data JDBC by leveraging IntelliJ IDEA's powerful features and become more productive in your development process.

The Spring Data JDBC is growing and IntelliJ IDEA provides first-class support for it!
✅ Create entities from DB tables
✅ Generate scripts for Liquibase / Flyway
✅ Create repositories from usage + auto-wiring
✅ Column-to-code completion
Read more 👉 jb.gg/39id13

STF Milestone 10: Documentation improvements • Marc Philipp Personal website

✨️ New blog post: "STF Milestone 10: Documentation improvements"

Modernizing @junit.org's documentation by adopting @antora.org and hosting on statichost.eu

👉️ marcphilipp.de/blog/2026/01...

Thanks to the @sovereign.tech fund for their support!

Release v3.27.7 · assertj/assertj 🔒 Security Core Fix XXE vulnerability in isXmlEqualTo assertion (CVE-2026-24400) See GHSA-rqfh-9r24-8c9r for details; many thanks to @wxt201 and @Song-Li for responsibly reporting it! 🚫 Deprec...

📢 AssertJ 3.27.7 has been released!

This fixes CVE-2026-24400 🔒

Happy assertions!

github.com/assertj/asse...

Let me introduce you to another new validation in the Spring Tools: it reminds you that you should not try to define the path in the controller annotation itself - and as a bonus, comes with the corresponding quick fix 🥳

Spring Framework 7 comes with an improved way to functionally register bean definitions using the BeanRegistrar interface - and Spring Tools 5 has already support for this built-in, incl. understanding bean definitions + checking and adding matching import annotations 🥳🚀😎

The newly introduced API versioning support in Spring Framework 7 is already nicely supported in the @springtools.bsky.social - for example by double checking for a proper configuration when using it 😎

STF Milestone 8: Improved parallel test execution • Marc Philipp Personal website

✨ New blog post: "STF Milestone 8: Improved parallel test execution"

Parallel execution support for the Vintage engine, resource lock improvements, and a new #JUnit Platform implementation of parallel execution

👉 marcphilipp.de/blog/2026/01...

Thanks to the @sovereign.tech Fund for their support!

My "Year in Code" for 2025 via GitHub Wrapped. 🤓

git-wrapped.com/profiles/sbr...

Gradle 9.3.0 Release Notes We are excited to announce Gradle 9.3.0.

Happy Friday!

📣 #Gradle 9.3.0 is out!

https://docs.gradle.org/9.3.0/release-notes.html

Bug fixes and…

📋 Test reporting improvements
💡 Error and warning improvements
🔧 Build authoring improvements

Please report any 🐛 on #GitHub!

Spring Framework 7.0.3 Available Now Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

🍃 #SpringFramework 7.0.3 is now available!

This release contains 65 fixes and documentation improvements and will be shipped next week with #SpringBoot 4.0.2.

🚀 Noteworthy: context pausing behavior in the TestContext framework is now configurable and lazy by default.

spring.io/blog/2026/01...

Devnexus 2026 The longest-running and Largest Java Ecosystem Conference in the World.

I'm presenting on Spring and Observability at @devnexus.bsky.social in early March.
Devnexus is the biggest Java conference in the USA, I highly recommend it!
This promo code gives you 30% discount on ticket prices: SPEAK30.
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New in Spring Tools 5: controllers now show up with a code lens that summarizes the web configuration that you have in place for the project - and allows you to quickly navigate to it - very useful, especially in combination with the new API versioning support in Spring Framework 7 🥳 🚀

See also:

docs.spring.io/spring-frame...

github.com/spring-proje...

Avoid unnecessary pausing of application contexts for tests · spring-projects/spring-framework@fa40406 In commit 9711db787e, we introduced support for disabling test application context pausing via a Spring property or JVM system property, as follows. -Dspring.test.context.cache.pause=never Howeve...

🍃 #SpringFramework 7.0.3 will lazily pause an unused test ApplicationContext the 1st time a different context is used. 🚀

But you can override this by setting "spring.test.context.cache.pause" to ALWAYS or disable pausing by setting that to NEVER.

github.com/spring-proje...

Introduce Spring property to disable context pausing for tests · spring-projects/spring-framework@9711db7 Spring Framework 7.0 introduced support for pausing inactive application contexts between test classes and restarting them once they are needed again. If pausing and restarting are fast, this featu...

🍃 With #SpringFramework 7.0.3, you'll be able to globally disable test ApplicationContext pausing (in case pausing causes issues for you) by setting the "spring.test.context.cache.pause" property to "never".

github.com/spring-proje...

Tools State of the art open source Spring tooling for your favorite coding environment. Provides world-class support for developing Spring-based enterprise applications, whether you prefer Visual Studio Cod...

Spring Tools 5.0.1 released for @vscode.dev, @cursor.com.web.brid.gy, Eclipse Java IDE 2025-12, Theia IDE - download from spring.io/tools - for more details: github.com/spring-proje...

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My last blog post of the year: Next level Kotlin support in Spring Boot 4.
spring.io/blog/2025/12...

#spring #kotlin

🍃 #Spring Framework 7.0.2 includes several enhancements for retry support.

⏰ Timeouts in @⁠Retryable and RetryPolicy
🛠️ New onRetryableExecution() listener callback, exposes the current retry count, etc.
👍🏻 @⁠EnableResilientMethods now participates in globally enforced target class proxying

Spring Framework 7.0.2 Available Now Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

🍃 #Spring Framework 7.0.2 is now available!

Includes 74 fixes and documentation improvements and will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 4.0.1.

spring.io/blog/2025/12...

Spring Framework 6.2.15 Available Now Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

🍃 #Spring Framework 6.2.15 is now available!

Includes 31 fixes and documentation improvements and will be shipped next week with Spring Boot 3.4.13 and 3.5.9.

spring.io/blog/2025/12...

Spring AI 2.0.0-M1 Available Now Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

🎉 Exciting news! Spring AI 2.0.0-M1 is out! First milestone of the 2.x series with Spring Boot 4 & Framework 7, upgraded integrations (OpenAI, Google GenAI & Anthropic), Redis chat memory, vector store improvements, MCP updates & more! spring.io/blog/2025/12...

Tools State of the art open source Spring tooling for your favorite coding environment. Provides world-class support for developing Spring-based enterprise applications, whether you prefer Visual Studio Cod...

Spring Tools 5.0 released for @vscode.dev, @cursor.com.web.brid.gy, Eclipse Java IDE 2025-09, Theia IDE - download from spring.io/tools - for more details: github.com/spring-proje... 🚀

GitHub - spring-attic/spring-fu: Configuration DSLs for Spring Boot Configuration DSLs for Spring Boot. Contribute to spring-attic/spring-fu development by creating an account on GitHub.

Goodbye Spring Fu, the experimental project I created several years ago to explore more efficient Spring applications configured with DSLs has been archived. We learnt a lot from it and it has contributed to the introduction of multiple Spring features. 🧵 github.com/spring-attic...

Spring AI 1.1.1 Available Now Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.

🚀 Spring AI 1.1.1 is out! Includes OpenAI Java SDK integration, native chat client structured output support, Claude Skills API integration, Google Gemini integration improvements, MCP improvements, other bug fixes and enhancements: spring.io/blog/2025/12...

Call for Lead Maintainers: GraalVM CE 25 Backports Repository · Issue #12649 · oracle/graal GraalVM 25 Community Edition is scheduled to receive updates until January 2026. As with previous releases 17 and 21, there's a community interest in maintaining an open-source backports repository...

Call for Lead Maintainers: GraalVM CE 25 Backports Repository: github.com/oracle/graal...