--- title: Best Spring posts — December 2024 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted Spring posts from December 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/spring/best-of/2024/12 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/spring/best-of/2024/12 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best Spring posts — December 2024 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted Spring posts from December 2024, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of Spring — December 2024 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-3-3-7-available-now-n5c34y5ea "Spring Boot 3.3.7 available now") Article Spring · 2y Spring Boot 3.3.7 available now Spring Boot 3.3.7 has been released, featuring updates and improvements for developers. 15 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/this-year-in-spring---december-31st-2024-1tug3comp "This Year in Spring - December 31st, 2024") Article Spring · 2y This Year in Spring - December 31st, 2024 Spring fans are greeted with a Happy New Year message and a review of notable achievements in 2024\. Highlights include the advancements in Spring AI, which offers robust support for building AI-powered systems; Spring Modulith, which improves modular coding; the experimental Spring gRPC project for easy setup of GraalVM-ready gRPC services; and enhancements in Spring Security, including full OAuth suite support and WebAuthn/Passkeys. The post emphasizes the ongoing improvements and optimizations within the Spring framework. 12 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/extending-spring-data-repositories-just-got-easier-neyghtjuz "Extending Spring Data Repositories Just Got Easier") Article Spring · 2y Extending Spring Data Repositories Just Got Easier The 2024.1 release of Spring Data Repositories makes it easier to extend repositories with custom functionality, allowing for broad reusability across different projects. This post discusses using MongoDB’s Atlas vector search in a generic manner and streamlining the implementation through shared fragments. Specific examples demonstrate making repository components more generic and reusable without being tightly coupled to a single domain type. 10 [See all Spring archives](/sources/spring/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/spring/best-of/2024/12#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/spring/best-of/2024/12","name":"Best Spring Posts — December 2024","description":"The most upvoted Spring posts from December 2024, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/spring/best-of/2024/12#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/spring-boot-3-3-7-available-now-n5c34y5ea","name":"Spring Boot 3.3.7 available now"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/this-year-in-spring---december-31st-2024-1tug3comp","name":"This Year in Spring - December 31st, 2024"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/extending-spring-data-repositories-just-got-easier-neyghtjuz","name":"Extending Spring Data Repositories Just Got Easier"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Spring","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/spring"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/spring/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"December 2024"}]}]} ```