On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of the Spring Vault service release 2.0.2.RELEASE, available from Maven Central.

This release primarily delivers bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements.

For a complete list of changes see the changelog.

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On behalf of the community, I'd like to announce the availability of the Spring Vault 2.1 release candidate. Spring Vault 2.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. This release ships with 15 tickets fixed along with some refinements for Java 9 to 11. The most notable changes are:

• Support for Azure authentication with managed service instances on VMs.
• GCP IAM authentication support on behalf of service accounts.

This release is compatible with Vault versions from 0.5.2 up to 0.11.1.

Next Steps

We are aiming for a GA release in early…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce Spring Framework 5.1 RC3, 5.0.9 and 4.3.19 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.0.9 includes 36 fixes and selected improvements while Spring Framework 4.3.19 includes 23 fixes and selected improvements. We're also approaching Spring Framework 5.1 with a third release candidate that includes 30 fixes and improvements.

As usual, those are the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.1 M3, 2.0.5 and 1.5.16 releases early next week.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.0.M3 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. What's new in this milestone? Here is a list of new features and enhancements:

JSR-305 support

The main theme of this milestone is adding support for JSR-305 annotations. We leveraged Spring Framework's Null-safety annotations and added them where appropriate in all public APIs of Spring Batch.

These annotations will not only enforce null-safety when using Spring Batch APIs, but also can be used by IDEs to provide useful information related to nullability. For example, if a user wants to implement the ItemReader interface, any IDE supporting JSR-30…

I’m pleased to announce on behalf of the community Spring Security OAuth2 Boot Auto-config 2.0.4 and 2.1.0.M2.

Both releases primarily deliver bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements. Of particular note is that these align with recent releases of Spring Boot.

For a complete list of changes, please refer to the 2.0.4 changelog and 2.1.0.M2 changelog.

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Dear Spring Community!

It’s my pleasure to announce General Availability for Spring projects supporting Amazon Web Services: Spring Integration for AWS 2.0.0.RELEASE and Spring Cloud Stream Binder for AWS Kinesis 1.0.0.RELEASE.

Both artifacts are available in the Spring Release repository and Maven Central and can be used as dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-integration-aws</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>
...
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring…

On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.0.RC1. This release comes with 50+ tickets closed.

As always we look forward to hearing your feedback! You can find the highlights below:

Table of Contents

• Servlet

  • OAuth2 Resource Server

    • Open ID Provider Configuration

    • Claim Validation

    • GrantedAuthority Extraction

  • OAuth2 Client Credentials Grant

  • Feature-Policy Secure Header

• WebFlux

  • OAuth2 Resource Servers

  • OAuth2 Login/Client

    • Authorization Code Grant

    • Authorization Request Resolver

    • Authorized Client Repository

  • Hardening Your Application

    • Secure Headers

    • CORS

• Dependency Updates

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On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Boot 2.1 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes 75 issues and pull requests!

This second milestone aligns with Spring Framework 5.1.RC2 and is the first release with support of Java 11.

Other highlights of this second milestone include:

• Auto-configuration for task execution (@EnableAsync) and task scheduling (@EnableScheduling)
• Configurable bootstrap mode for JPA
• OAuth2 resource server support
• Improved logging output for web applications
• Improved binding for data size properties.
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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Lovelace RC2 release. This ships in preparation of Spring Boot 2.1 M2 and, of course, our own GA release mid-September. The release ships with 82 tickets fixed. You can find more details in the the updated and curated release wiki.

A pretty late but significant new feature has made it into the release: deferred repository initialization for Spring Data JPA. The feature allows your startup to use Spring Framework's JPA background initialization option more effectively and can significantly cut down startup time. See the previewing example…