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 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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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 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…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that our second Spring Framework 5.1 release candidate is available from our milestone repository now.

Spring Framework 5.1 RC2 comes with dependency updates such as the latest Reactor Californium M2, RxJava 2.2, and JUnit 5.3 RC1. It addresses several reported issues on JDK 11 and GraalVM (tracking their release candidates) and provides further refinements within our 5.1 themes, in particular with respect to log output and startup performance.

This is the foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.1 M2 release next week. We're aiming for a…

This post was authored by Vedran Pavić

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session BOM Bean-M1 and Apple-SR4. Spring Boot users will be happy to learn that these release were picked up in recent 2.1.0.M1 and 2.0.4.RELEASE releases of Spring Boot, respectively.

Spring Session Bean-M1

The Bean-M1 is first milestone release that is based on Spring Session 2.1.0.M1.

The following table provides an overview of all the included modules and their respective versions:

Module

Version

Spring Session Core

2.1.0.M1

Spring Session Data GemFire

2.0.3.RELEASE

Spring…

We’re pleased to announce that the 2.0.1 release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker is now available. This release resolves a few issues that were raised since the 2.0.0 release. Thank you to the community for your interest and feedback!

Spring Cloud Open Service Broker is a framework for building Spring Boot applications that implement the Open Service Broker API. The Open Service Broker API project allows developers to deliver services to applications running within cloud native platforms such as Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

Dear Spring Community!

Today, together with Google Cloud team, I’m very excited to announce that Spring Cloud for Google Cloud Platform project of version 1.0 is Generally Available at last!

This project has started as a collaboration with the Google Cloud team (and we really appreciate their effort) and aims to implement and expose well-know Spring Framework patterns and abstractions to bring the benefits of Spring and Spring Boot to Java developers using GCP services. Together we spent many hours (more than a year!) discussing the best APIs and approaches which should be convenient and…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.1.0.M1

Spring Cloud Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

Focus on Cloud Foundry manifest:

This milestone release adds a new feature to perform the lifecycle operations to install, upgrade, rollback and delete on any applications that can be deployed into Cloud Foundry using the Cloud Foundry manifest…