Spring Framework 5.2.8, 5.1.17, 5.0.18, and 4.3.28 available now

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a full round of Spring Framework releases.

Spring Framework 5.2.8 includes 36 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.17 includes 15 selected fixes and improvements.

The maintenance release for 5.0.x (5.0.18) ships with 13 selected fixes and improvements. The 4.3.x branch (4.3.28) also ships with 13 selected fixes and improvements, including a CORS configuration change (see gh-25414 and the CORS section of the reference documentation for more details).

As usual, we'll follow up shortly with corresponding Spring Boot releases (2.3.2, 2.2.9 and 2.1.16).

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