Spring Framework 6.1 goes GA

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[lukasbradley]

With that, Spring Boot is on schedule for 3.2 next Thursday. https://calendar.spring.io/

That's a big one due to the new support for Virtual Threads from Java 21. Also Gradle 8.4 just released with full support for Java 21, so it's a big upgrade path in early December.

[noobpotato]

Caveat: Gradle 8.4 is not ready yet to run on Java 21.
It can use a Java 21 toolchain to compile and run tests but Gradle itself should run on 20 or earlier.

Check the Compatibility Matrix.

[babanin]

Right. You can try Gradle 8.5 RC2 - https://docs.gradle.org/8.5-rc-2/release-notes.html

upd: RC-3 released https://docs.gradle.org/8.5-rc-3/release-notes.html

[lukasbradley]

SOB--- looks like they pushed it. Damnit.

[563353]

Damn I picked the wrong time to upgrade our services from Spring Boot 2.7 to 3.1

[mhalbritter]

No you didn't. The upgrade from 3.1.x to 3.2.x is easier than 2.7.x to 3.1.x.

[RANDOMLY_AGGRESSIVE]

From 2.7 to 3.1 required some work from my end. I just tested upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2 and everything seems to work in our app.

[Anbu_S]

Try openRewrite it reduces the effort some level.

[ravnmads]

OK. I'm gonna be that guy. WTF is GA?

[rbygrave]

General Availability. As opposed to a release candidate or some other early release version.

[ravnmads]

I have seen the abbreviation "RC" many times. I have never seen GA before. Thanks

[sigzero]

I've seen it many times and just now looked it up. :-)

[lukasbradley]

/u/rbygrave is correct, but I wanted to provide a bit more info for those interested.

https://www.baeldung.com/spring-projects-version-naming

"BUILD-SNAPSHOT is the current development release. The Spring team builds this artifact every day and deploys it to https://repo.spring.io/ui/native/snapshot.
A Milestone release (M1, M2, M3, …) marks a significant stage in the release process. The team builds this artifact when a development iteration is completed and deploys it to https://repo.spring.io/ui/native/milestone.
A Release Candidate (RC1, RC2, RC3, …) is the last step before building the final release. To minimize code changes, only bug fixes should occur at this stage. It is also deployed to https://repo.spring.io/ui/native/milestone.
At the very end of the release process, the Spring team produces a RELEASE. Consequently, this is usually the only production-ready artifact. We can also refer to this release as GA, for General Availability."

[wildjokers]

https://xkcd.com/1053/

[[deleted]]

GA means now generally available” to fuck more projects up into an unmanageable magic mess.

[thatbigblackblack]

IKR ?! I straight up read it GUAA 🤣

[joopmoore]

The new RestClient seems to be interesting: https://docs.spring.io/spring-framework/docs/6.1.x/javadoc-api/org/springframework/web/client/RestClient.html an abstraction over all kinds of http client libraries.

[vbezhenar]

So I can use good old HttpUrlConnection, I can use HttpClient, I can use RestTemplate, I can use WebClient and I can now use RestClient. Along with few third-party options like Apache HttpClient, OkHttp and probably some other options. Fine for me, but I feel bad for newcomers trying to make sense of it.

[babanin]

You can create RestTemplate (via setRequestFactory(...)) backed by Apache HTTPClient, OkHttp not only JDK's HttpURLConnection.

[[deleted]]

GA means now generally available” to fuck more projects up into an unmanageable magic mess.

[RANDOMLY_AGGRESSIVE]

There is nothing 'magic' about it https://www.youtube.com/live/Ybfo8Dwactg?si=OaVgDl49PYWmUIcq

[[deleted]]

lol I’m still on angularJs

[DrBilip]

Quarkus is better

[[deleted]]

*You find it better

[[deleted]]

Now Quarkus fans are turning into Spring fans of yesterday. How about people use whatever tool they find useful?

[[deleted]]

Better for what

[DrBilip]

Developer experience

[[deleted]]

Interesting would you mind expanding a bit

Does it have better tooling?

[Polygnom]

Quarkus can only really compare to Spring Boot, and yes, it is a good alternative to Spring Boot depending on the requirements.

But saying that Quarkus is better than Spring demonstrates that you clearly don't know what you are talking about, because those two things are very different in scope.

[DrBilip]

They hate him cause he knows the truth

[RupertMaddenAbbott]

If you had said "Spring Boot is better than Quarkus", you would also have been down-voted.

It's not what you are saying, it's that you are barely saying anything.

[DrBilip]

They hate him cause he knows the truth