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 Session 1.3.0 Released

Releases | December 16, 2016 | ...

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.3.0.RELEASE. This release evolved through 1.3.0.M1, 1.3.0.M2, 1.3.0.RC1, and 1.3.0.RELEASE

What’s New in Spring Session 1.3.0.RELEASE

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring Session 1.3.0.RELEASE section of the reference. For details refer to the changelog links above.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja

Spring Session 1.3.0 RC1 Released

Releases | November 23, 2016 | ...

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.3.0.RC1. This release release closes lots of community submitted Pull Requests. For a complete list of changes see the changelog.

What’s New in Spring Session 1.3.0 RC1

Highlights include:

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback…

Spring Security 4.2.0 Released

Releases | November 10, 2016 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.0.RELEASE.

What’s New in Spring Security 4.2

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring Security 4.2 section of the reference. This release closes out 80+ issues which can be found in the 4.2 M1, 4.2 RC1, and 4.2 RELEASE changelogs.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

An easy way to contribute is to help spread the word about the release.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja

Spring Security 4.2 RC1

Releases | October 27, 2016 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.0.RC1.

What’s New in Spring Security 4.2

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring Security 4.2 section of the reference. This release closes out 70+ issues which can be found in the 4.2 M1 and 4.2 RC1 changelogs.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja

Spring LDAP 2.2.0 Released

Releases | October 25, 2016 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.2.0.RELEASE.

What’s New in Spring LDAP 2.2

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring LDAP 2.2 section of the reference.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja on Twitter.

Of course the best feedback comes in the form of contributions

Spring LDAP 2.2 RC1

Releases | October 04, 2016 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.2.0.RC1.

What’s New in Spring LDAP 2.2

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring LDAP 2.2 section of the reference.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja on Twitter.

Of course the best feedback comes in the form of contributions

Spring Security 4.2 M1

Releases | September 23, 2016 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.0.M1.

What’s New in Spring Security 4.2

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring Security 4.2 section of the reference. This release closes out 50+ issues which can be found in the changelog.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja

Spring Session 1.3.0 M2 Released

Releases | September 14, 2016 | ...

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.3.0.M2. This release release closes lots of community submitted Pull Requests. For a complete list of changes see the changelog.

Note

Spring Session 1.3.0.M1 release had some problems, so we followed up with an immediate release of Spring Session 1.3.0.M2

What’s New in Spring Session 1.3.0 M2

Highlights include:

Spring Session 1.2.2 Released

Releases | September 07, 2016 | ...

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.2.2.RELEASE. This release contains numerous bug fixes and trivial enhancements. Some of the highlights include:

Project Site | Reference | Help

Spring Security 4.1.3 Released

Releases | August 24, 2016 | ...

I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.3.RELEASE which updates libraries & resolves some minor issues including fixes for the new MvcRequestMatcher.

For details refer to the changelog.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja on Twitter.

Of course the best feedback comes in the form of contributions

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