I am happy to announce the availability of Spring HATEOAS 2.1.5, 2.2.2 and 2.3 RC1. The primary content of the release is the upgrade to the latest Spring Framework releases as they contain a fix for a CVE.

The releases will be included in the Spring Boot service and RC release next week.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2023.1.5 and 2023.0.11 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.2.5, respective 3.1.11 will pick up the above releases by next week.

2023.1.5

• Spring Data Commons 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.2.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce that Spring Data release train 2024.0 has entered the release candidate phase with 2024.0.0-RC1 being available now.

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Going forward, we aim for a GA release in mid May. The releases are as usual picked by by Spring Boot.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Finally, here are the links to the documentation and release notes:

• Spring Data Commons 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.3 RC1 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

The Spring Framework team has been busy reviewing the issue tracker in anger and reducing the number of opened issues. This was long overdue, with a number of issues being invalid or superseded in the meantime. This helped the team focusing on a more manageable amount of issues and we used the opportunity to look at long standing issues that we haven’t had the time to address yet.

In this post, I’d like to walk you through a collection of those relatively small issues, sometimes highly voted, that are finally available in this milestone.

Support for escaping property placeholders

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• Spring Framework 6.1.6 ships with 41 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.5, to be released next week.
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