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Sam Brannen @sambrannen.com · 08/02/2025

Please try out #JUnit 5.12 RC1 before we release 5.12 GA in two weeks. Feedback is welcome! 🙏

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Sébastien Deleuze @seb.deleuze.fr · 22/01/2025

In order to make testing of pre GA versions easier, the Spring portfolio will begin releasing its milestones and release candidates to Maven Central starting with the releases related to the major versions due out in November. See this blog post from @michaelminella.com for more details.

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Spring Milestones to Maven central

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AssertJ @assertj.github.io · 04/01/2025

📢 Here we go with AssertJ 3.27.2, the "final-final" 3.x release! This fixes a 🐛 regression introduced in 3.27.0. Happy assertions! github.com/assertj/asse...

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Release v3.27.2 · assertj/assertj

🐛 Bug Fixes Core Restore support for null-valued maps when ignoring fields #3723

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Matt Raible @mraible.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Happy holidays to the #JHipster community: JHipster v8.8.0 is now available! 🌱 Spring Boot 3.4 ❤️ Angular 19 🛋️ Couchbase fixed 💪 Many other improvements 🎁 www.jhipster.tech/2024/12/23/j... Thanks to all the contributors! 🙏 #java #springboot #angular

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Release 8.8.0 | JHipster

This is a minor release for JHipster v8.

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Peter Lawrey @peterlawrey.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

You can nest fields, interfaces, classes, enums, and even annotations within annotations. You can implement something like inheritance for annotation. When might this be useful?

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Empowering Your Annotations with Fields

Introduction Java’s annotation system has come a long way since its introduction in Java 5. At first glance, annotations appear to be m...

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 17/12/2024

:ahem: gRPC IS ON THE SPRING INITIALIZR!!! start.spring.io thank you, dr. @dsyer.com and @0.5ritter.de !

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Oliver Drotbohm @odrotbohm.de · 20/12/2024

📢🎄🎅 Christmas came early this year: #SpringModulith 1.3.1, 1.2.7 and 1.1.12 are here! Dependency upgrades, documentation (generation) improvements and bug fixes. Grab ’em while they’re 🔥!

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Spring Modulith 1.3.1, 1.2.7, and 1.1.12 released

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jocosti.bsky.social @jocosti.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

AssertJ 3.27.0 has been released! • One 🚫 deprecation • Many ✨ new features, ⚡️ improvements, and 🐛 bug fixes Many thanks to all contributors and happy assertions! github.com/assertj/asse...

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Release v3.27.0 · assertj/assertj

🚫 Deprecated Core Deprecate ClassBasedNavigableIterableAssert and ClassBasedNavigableListAssert #3529 ✨ New Features Core Add actual() to access the object under test #3489 Add isCompletedWithVa...

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Moritz Halbritter @0.5ritter.de · 19/12/2024

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.4.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release includes 80 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. spring.io/blog/2024/12... #spring #springboot

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Spring Boot 3.4.1 available now

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GitHub @github.com · 18/12/2024

A new free tier of GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code. ✅ 2,000 code completions per month 💬 50 chat messages per month 💫 Models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet or GPT-4o ♥️ More fun for you Check it out today! Oh yeah, and we passed 150M developers on GitHub 💅 github.blog/news-insight...

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Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code

Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code.

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Siva @sivalabs.in · 18/12/2024

Heard of Testcontainers but haven't tried it yet? Here is a tutorial covering what kinds of problems Testcontainers solves, how to get started with it, and how you can test Spring Data JPA Repositories and #SpringBoot REST APIs. blog.jetbrains.com/idea/2024/12...

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Testing Spring Boot Applications Using Testcontainers | The IntelliJ IDEA Blog

Testing is a crucial part of software development, verifying that a system functions as intended. Developers create unit tests to validate the behavior of individual components, isolating them from ex

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JUnit Team @junit.org · 16/12/2024

#JUnit 5.11.4 is released! ✨ JRE enum constant for Java 25 🐞 Various bug fixes and enhancements since 5.11.3 junit.org/junit5/docs/...

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JUnit 5 Release Notes

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Stéphane Nicoll @snicoll.be · 12/12/2024

Last release of the year for the Spring Framework team. Spring Framework 6.2.1 and 6.1.16 are available now spring.io/blog/2024/12... #spring @spring.io

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Spring Framework 6.1.16 and 6.2.1 Available Now

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CrAIg Walls @habuma.com · 12/12/2024

Tonight, I took a stab at writing a Spring AI application using the new MCP support module. It's only slightly different from the simple SQLite example, but this one uses the Google Maps MCP server to answer questions about locations. Check it out: github.com/habuma/sprin...

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spring-ai-examples/spring-ai-mcp-fun at main · habuma/spring-ai-examples

Examples of using Spring AI. Contribute to habuma/spring-ai-examples development by creating an account on GitHub.

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David Soria Parra @thedsp.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

The Spring Team build an MCP framework for Java. This is such an amazing step to get such a vast and productive ecosystem ready to build MCP servers spring.io/blog/2024/12...

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Announcing Spring AI MCP: A Java SDK for the Model Context Protocol

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James Ward @jamesward.com · 11/12/2024

This is awesome! MCP is the way 🎯

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Marcus Hellberg @marcushellberg.dev · 11/12/2024

👀 Stackblitz just released an open-source version of Bolt that you can use with your own LLM. github.com/stackblitz-...

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Cowtown Coder @cowtowncoder.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If you want to have a say on Jackson 3.0.0 feature defaults, consider participating via github.com/FasterXML/ja... (5 things to vote on currently). Or have a look even if just interested in knowing about likely changes.

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Path to Jackson 3.0.0 · FasterXML jackson-future-ideas · Discussion #72

Goal of this Discussion This Discussion is "uber-discussion" covering the high-level scope of what the official Jackson 3.0.0 Release should include, along with bit of status of the progress. Most ...

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SQLDaily @sqldaily.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Checking if rows match some criteria? Instead of SELECT COUNT(*) FROM ... Use EXISTS ( SELECT * FROM ... COUNT gets all the rows; EXISTS can stop when it finds a match As @lukaseder.bsky.social says Thou shalt not use COUNT(*) when EXISTS sufficeth thy need

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Avoid using SQL COUNT(*) when you could use SQL EXISTS

When checking for the existence of data, avoid using COUNT(*) > 0 as many implementations will nto be able to avoid the work of calculating the exact count

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Christian Tzolov @tzolov.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

#SpringAI integration with Amazon Bedrock Nova using the Converse API! Build powerful multimodal AI apps with text, image, video & document processing. Step-by-step guide and code examples: spring.io/blog/2024/12..., #SpringAI #AWS #Bedrock #AI

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Martin Fowler @martinfowler.com · 10/12/2024

FINAL § Once we've designed our initial data products, Kiran Prakash finishes his article by leading us through the next steps: identifying common patterns, improving the developer experience, and handling governance. martinfowler.com/articles/des...

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Designing data products

A step-by-step, systematic approach to defining data products by working backward from use cases.

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Maria Colgan @sqlmaria.com · 10/12/2024

Mike Hitchwa just demoed the new version 2 of #oracle LiveSQL which is really cool Chrck it out at livesql.oracle.com

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 07/12/2024

the new Spring Data 2024.1 release has so many features, I just had to make a video about it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUIp...

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What's new in Spring Data 2024.1?

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Daniel Garnier-Moiroux @garnier.wf · 07/12/2024

Got a Spring Security question by email this week, and this is your periodic reminder that you should not implement your own JwtAuthenticationFilter. Don't follow all these tutorials and StackOverflow responses telling you to do that. Use OAuth2ResourceServer instead: docs.spring.io/spring-secur...

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OAuth 2.0 Resource Server :: Spring Security

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Josh Long 🍃 @starbuxman.joshlong.com · 06/12/2024

the new @SpringFramework 6.2 release is jam-packed with cool stuff, so I did a video about it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2NE...

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What's new in Spring Framework 6.2?

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React @react.dev · 24/10/2024

this is pretty huge — the react native team has been working towards this milestone for the last six years! reactnative.dev/blog/2024/10...

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React Native 0.76 - New Architecture by default, React Native DevTools, and more · React Native

Today we are excited to release React Native 0.76!

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Mark Reinhold @mreinhold.org · 05/12/2024

JDK 24 has been branched from the main line and is now in Rampdown Phase One: mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/jd... openjdk.org/projects/jdk... #JDK24 #OpenJDK #Java

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Stuart Marks @smarks.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Here are a few #Java and #JVM and #OpenJDK related starter packs: Java Developer Community: bsky.app/starter-pack... Java & JVM: bsky.app/starter-pack... Java Champions: bsky.app/starter-pack...

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Peter Lawrey @peterlawrey.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

While collections like ArrayList are designed to grow dynamically, this flexibility can result in costly resizing operations. By setting the initial capacity, developers can reduce overhead, improve memory efficiency, and clarify their intent.

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Performance Tip: Specify Collection Capacity When Size is Known

When working with Java collections, their ability to grow dynamically is often valuable. Yet, if you already know the required size, specify...

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Todd Ginsberg @todd.ginsberg.com · 26/10/2024

In anticipation of Java's Stream Gatherers (introduced in JEP 485 and targeted at Java 24), I have been building a library of helpful Gatherers called Gatherers4j. Take a look, I'd love to hear your ideas! github.com/tginsberg/ga...

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GitHub - tginsberg/gatherers4j: A library of useful Stream Gatherers (custom intermediate operations) for Java.

A library of useful Stream Gatherers (custom intermediate operations) for Java. - GitHub - tginsberg/gatherers4j: A library of useful Stream Gatherers (custom intermediate operations) for Java.

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Sébastien Deleuze @seb.deleuze.fr · 05/12/2024

Spring Framework main branch is now using Kotlin 2.1 as a baseline. Next steps are JSpecify based null-safety (hopefully with an extended scope that includes generic types), more efficient reflection, faster value class support and better documentation for Spring+Kotlin. github.com/spring-proje...

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Upgrade to Kotlin 2.1.0 · spring-projects/spring-framework@75e5747

Spring Framework 7.0 will use a Kotlin 2 baseline, using the latest 2.x release at the time of the release. This commit upgrades Kotlin to 2.1.0, and Kotlin Serialization and Coroutines accordingl...

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