On behalf of the community and everyone who has contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.4.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users.

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Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Framework team and many recent contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.2 is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central! Check out our updated docs...

• What's New in Spring Framework 5.2
• Upgrading to Spring Framework 5.2
• Our revised reference documentation with side by side examples for Java as well Kotlin.

Spring Framework 5.2 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the current long-term support branch as well as JDK 13 as the latest OpenJDK release. It comes with many performance improvements (affecting startup time as well as peak performance) and further steps taken towards GraalVM native image support…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce that Spring Data Lovelace SR11 is now available.

This release ships with 72 tickets fixed, mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. Lovelace SR11 is built on top the recently released Spring Framework 5.1.10 and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.1.9 for easier consumption.

Finally, here are links to the reference documentation, changelogs, and artifacts of the individual project releases:

• Spring Data Commons 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 1.0.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.0.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

We are pleased to announce the 3.1.0.M2 release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker, which includes some initial support for Open Service Broker API v2.15. Thanks to the community for their significant contributions! This release includes the following fixes and enhancements:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.1.8.RELEASE
• Add maintenance_info field to Service Plan object
• Add maximum_polling_duration field to Service Plan object
• Add plan_updateable field to Service Plan object
• Return HTTP 400 when the required service_id and/or plan_id are missing or incorrect
• Return HTTP 202 when a service broker operation is in progress and an identical request is sent before the previous request completes
• Return JSON arrays instead of JSON objects for certain Service definition metadata
• Add support for custom base path of service broker controllers
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.10 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.1.10 includes 35 fixes and selected improvements.

Next week is going to be quite busy release-wise with Spring Framework 5.2 GA followed by a number of spring projects going GA as well. We'll also have the first release candidate of Spring Boot 2.2, stay tuned!

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On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.2.0.M3.

SBDG 1.2.0.M3 continues to be based on the same bits as the 1.2.0.M2 release: primarily:

• Spring Framework 5.2.0.RC2

• Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6

• Spring Data Moore-RC3

• Spring Session Corn-M4

• Spring Test for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (STDG) 0.0.8.RELEASE

The SBDG 1.2.0.M3 bits may be acquired from the Spring Milestone Repository as well as Spring Initializer.

What’s New

We now include support for switching between environments…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.4.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse) major change: quick text search contributed to the Eclipse platform and ships to millions of Eclipse users now
• (Eclipse) improvement: updated to Eclipse 2019-09 release
• (Eclipse) improvement: various improvements to support the dark theme
• (Eclipse) fixed: deadlock during startuo fixed
• (Concourse) improvement: updated to latest changes in Concourse YAML elements and attributes
• various additional bug fixes

To download…

On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 4.2.0.RC1. We have been working on some performance improvements in the core framework, and this post highlights the major changes.

Major Performance Improvements

We have made some performance improvements, including:

• Enhanced Step Partitioning
• Improved Job Stop
• Faster Writes with the JpaItemWriter
• Optimized Bean Mapping with the BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper

Enhanced Step Partitioning

Starting a partitioned step is an area where the framework wasn't well optimized. In this version, we have dug deep into…

This post was authored by Vedran Pavić

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session Corn-M4. This release is picked up by Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6.

Spring Session Corn-M4

The Corn-M4 release is based on:

• Spring Session core modules 2.2.0.M4

• Spring Session Data Geode 2.2.0.M4

• Spring Session Data MongoDB 2.2.0.RC2

Some of the highlights of Spring Session 2.2.0.M4 are:

• support for customizing configuration of session repositories using new SessionRepositoryCustomizer/ReactiveSessionRepositoryCustomizer

• support for configuring transactional behavior for JdbcOperationsSessionRepository

• support for Spring Security’s AuthenticatedPrincipal in SpringSessionBackedSessionRegistry

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