This Week in Spring - November 15th, 2022

Hi, Spring fans! How?re you doin? this fine Tuesday morning? I?ve returned home to San Francisco and am up and at ?em nice and early to catch a flight to Seattle, where I?ll speak at the Java User Group tonight. If you?re in Seattle, don?t miss it!

We?ve got a ton of cool stuff to get into this week, but let?s not bury the lede here: Spring Framework 6 comes out tomorrow, Wednesday, the 16th of November, 2022! And you know where to go to get the bits: the Spring Initialzr, start.spring.io!

Let?s dive into this week?s roundup!

• Did you see the new Reactor 2022.0.0 release? This release contains integration with Micrometer Tracing, context propagation, and plenty of other improvements. See this for more.
• Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 available now
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.5 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 available now
• Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 is available now
• Updates on Spring Cloud Stream 4.0.0 Schema Registry Support
• Coming with the RC of Spring Modulith: improved module canvas listing cross-module bean references (first image) and publicly exposed value types (second image).
• Kong Ingress Controller with Spring Boot
• Mocking a Singleton With Mockito
• Did you know that Jetbrains has a Spotify playlist of music designed for coding called ?Pure Flow?? I like it!
• Spring @EnableMethodSecurity Annotation
• SpringRunner vs MockitoJUnitRunner