On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes just over 250 issues and pull requests.

If you're trying this release with an existing Spring Boot 2.3 project, please note the slight change in the format of the version. 2.4.0-M2 is using our new versioning scheme.

Highlights of this second milestone include:

• Spring Framework 5.3 M2
• Spring Data 2020.0.0.M2
• An update to the way that application.properties and application.yml files are processed, including import support and support for volume mounted config trees.
• A a significant overhaul of the Neo4j support.
• Numerous other dependency upgrades
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On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-M2 is now available from our milestone repository.

What’s new?

This release comes with a number of new features and enhancements that you can find in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

1. Kafka support enhancements

By default, the KafkaItemReader reads a topic from the beginning. When we initially introduced this reader in v4.2, it was not possible to configure it to read records from a custom offset. In this release, we added this feature. As a result of this addition, it is now possible to…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.3 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 67 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.4 (release notes), 5.2.6 (release notes), 5.1.12 (release notes) , 5.0.18 (release notes), 4.2.18 (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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On behalf of the Spring Data team I’m delighted to announce the second milestone of the 2020.0.0 release train (codename "Ockham"). This release ships almost 120 tickets fixed! The most important new features are:

• Support for reactive SpEL context extensions.
• Support for reactive auditing in Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and R2DBC.
• Integration of Spring Data Neo4j 6.0, which is a rewrite of the module without relying on Neo4j OGM.
• Refactoring of Spring Data R2DBC on top of Spring Framework's R2DBC module.
• Oracle dialect for Spring Data JDBC.

Find a curated changelog in our release train wiki or skim through a full list of changes in JIRA. Next up is 2020.0.0-RC1 planned for mid-September…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the third service release of the Spring Data Neumann release train. Neumann SR3 ships with 34 tickets fixed.

This release ships with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.3.3 in the coming days.

Here are the detailed links to each individual artifact and the reference documentation:

• Spring Data Commons 2.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.0.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.0.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the second milestone for Spring Integration 5.4 generation.

It can be downloaded from our milestone repository:

compile 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.4.0-M2'

This version continues a story since milestone 1 for aggressive dependencies upgrades and deprecation removals, including legacy metrics.

Some key highlights in this milestone alongside with the number of bugfixes and refactorings:

• The fix for CVE-2020-5413;

• An Inbound Channel Adapter for R2DBC;

• A Reactive Message Producer implementation for Redis Stream;

• A ZeroMqChannel is implemented, too;

• The RMI module is deprecated now.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.0-M2 is available now.

The second milestone of Spring Framework 5.3 includes 55 fixes and improvements.

If you want to give the milestone a try, you can bootstrap a new application on start.spring.io once Spring Boot 2.4.0-M2 is released later this week.

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Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.6.0.

This 2.6.0 adds usual bug fixes and the following key highlights:

• Wavefront New integration to monitor streams and tasks using Wavefront. More about this feature can be found from Stream Monitoring and Task Monitoring

• Platform Support for Scheduling Tasks scheduling now have a platform support. See Scheduling Tasks

• Java CFEnv We're now on a new version of Java CFEnv which greatly improves user experience when there is a need to bind to user created services.

• Bitnami We've moved from a Helm Hub to Bitnami as a helm chart storage.

• Composed Task Runner as SCDF native module Composed Task Runner is now an integral part of SCDF itself and gets registered implicitly while the users who have the custom composed task runner can still override the native one. This enables us to integrate the composed tasks management within the context of Spring Cloud Data Flow.

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