On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Security 6.4 is released.

This second milestone release brings several compelling features including:

• Extended Annotation Expression Placeholders Support to to @AuthenticationPrincipal and @CurrentSecurityContext
• Use inline CSS for default login and logout page
• SAML 2.0 Now Supports OpenSAML 4 and 5
• Saml 2.0 Refreshable, Expiry-Aware Asserting Party Metadata Source
• SAML 2.0 Cacheable RelyingPartyRegistrations
• LDAP Supports UnboundID 7
• Kotlin Supports @PreFilter and @PostFilter
• OIDC Backchannel Logout Accepts logout+jwt Tokens
• Make protected resources requests with RestClient
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud 2024.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository.

Notable Changes in the 2024.0.0 Release Train

The primary goal of the first milestone of Spring Cloud 2024.0.0 is to provide compatibility with Spring Boot 3.4.0-M1. There are no notable new features in this first milestone. We would appreciate users trying our this first milestone and reporting any issues they may notice.

The following modules were updated as part of 2024.0.0-M1:

On behalf of everyone who contributed, we are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 3.3.0-M2, 3.2.3 and 3.1.8 are generally available now.

See the release notes for more details:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.3.0-M2

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.2.3

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v3.1.8

These releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.9, 3.3.3 and 3.4.0-M2 respectively.

The 3.4.0-M2 version of Spring for Apache Kafka updated the Kafka client to the recently released version 3.8.0…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the releases of Spring Authorization Server 1.4.0-M1, 1.3.2 and 1.2.6.

See the 1.4.0-M1, 1.3.2 and 1.2.6 release notes for complete details.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the Getting Started chapter of the reference documentation and the samples to become familiar with setup and configuration.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.3.2, 6.2.6, and 5.8.14 are available now. In all cases, the releases are mostly composed of bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation improvements.

To learn more, please visit the 6.3.2, 6.2.6, and 5.8.14 release summaries.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.0.9 and 1.1.3 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The releases will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.2.9 and 3.3.3.

These patch releases includes numerous dependency upgrades.

Please see the release notes (1.0.9 and 1.1.3) for more details.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

The release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.0-M2 release.

This release includes numerous enhancements, documentation improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades.

Notable new features include:

• Custom Object Mapper - you can provide your own Jackson ObjectMapper that Pulsar will use when producing and consuming JSON messages (more details)

• Default Tenant and Namespace - you can specify a default tenant and/or namespace to use when producing or consuming messages against a non-fully-qualified topic URL (more details)

• Updates to next minor version of Spring, Reactor, and Micrometer libraries

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2024.0.3 and 2023.1.9 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.3.3, respective 3.2.9 will pick up the above releases by next week.

2024.0.3

• Spring Data Commons 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.3.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.1.12, 6.0.23 and 5.3.39 are available now. While 5.3.38 has also been released, it got superseded by 5.3.39.

• Spring Framework 6.1.12 ships with 43 fixes and documentation improvements. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.2.9 and Spring Boot 3.3.3, to be released next week.
• Spring Framework 6.0.23 ships with 14 fixes and documentation improvements.
• Spring Framework 5.3.39 ships with 1 fixes plus the 12 fixes and documentation improvements of 5.3.38.

Please note that OSS support for 5.3.x and 6.0.x ends on August 31, 2024. As such, 5.3.39 and 6.0.23 are meant to be the last OSS releases. Commercial support is available…