Rob Winch

Rob Winch

Rob Winch is employed by VMware as the project lead of security related projects within Spring. He is also a committer on the core Spring Framework and co-author for Spring Security LiveLessons and a Spring Security book. In the past he has worked in the health care industry, bioinformatics research, high performance computing, and as a web consultant. When he is not sitting in front of a computer he enjoys cycling with his friends.

Recent Blog posts by Rob Winch

Spring Security 5.5.0-RC2 released

Releases | May 03, 2021 | ...

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.0-RC2!

After releasing 5.5.0-RC1 we received some feedback on our APIs that required further refinements. This release finalizes the APIs for the 5.5.0 release later this month.

You can find the complete details in the release notes.

Spring Security 5.4.4, 5.3.8, and 5.2.9 released

Releases | February 12, 2021 | ...

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.4.4 (release notes), 5.3.8 (release notes), and 5.2.9 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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NOTE: There was an issue releasing 5.4.3 and 5.3.7 which caused us to need to release 5.4.4 and 5.3.8.

Spring Security 5.3.2, 5.2.4, 5.1.10, 5.0.16, 4.2.16 Released

Releases | May 07, 2020 | ...

UPDATE 2020-05-13: The following versions of Spring Security address CVE-2020-5407 and CVE-2020-5408

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.2 (release notes), 5.2.4 (release notes), 5.1.10 (release notes) , 5.0.16 (release notes), 4.2.16 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Updates to Spring Versions

Engineering | April 30, 2020 | ...

The Spring team has decided to change the versioning scheme for both release trains and project modules. These changes will be coming in the next release train and minor releases for each project. In fact, the changes are already present in Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M1. Maven and Gradle do not provide the exact same version ordering, but we are working with the Gradle team to ensure the Spring scheme ends up sorted in the same way with both tools.

Release Train Version Changes

Spring has been using alphabetically ordered, themed release train versions since 2013. Release trains contain a group of…

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