On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Security 5.8.8, 6.0.8, 6.1.5 and 6.2.0-RC2 versions are available now.

Please refer to the releases page for more detail on what is included in each release. In particular, you can review the release notes for each milestone that will make up the 6.2.0 release (6.2.0-M1, 6.2.0-M2, 6.2.0-M3, 6.2.0-RC1, 6.2.0-RC2) next month.

We encourage you to take the latest release candidate for a spin and provide any feedback you have! Some notable changes available in the 6.2 release candidate include:

• Add with() method to apply SecurityConfigurerAdapter #13432
• Automatically enable .cors() if CorsConfigurationSource bean is present #5011
• Simplify configuration of OAuth2 Client component model #13587 (blog post, docs)
• Add OIDC Back-channel Logout Support #7845 (docs)
• Test coverage for virtual threads #12790, #12791
• Add servlet pattern support to AuthorizeHttpRequests #13857 (docs)
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I am pleased to announce that the first release candidate of Spring Batch 5.1 is now available from our milestone repository.

The main theme of this release is improving the getting started experience of our users. This blog post walks you through the main improvements:

• Updated getting started guides
• Revamped samples
• Enhanced issue reporting guide
• Dependencies upgrades

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Updated getting started guides

The Getting started guide has been around for a long time and served well as a showcase of how to use Spring Batch with Spring…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Authorization Server 1.2.0-RC1.

See the 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, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 1.1.3, 1.0.4 and 0.4.4.

See the 1.1.3, 1.0.4 and 0.4.4 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’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.11.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

Notable Changes in 2.11.1

• Updated versions and mitigations for CVEs.
  • json-smart: 2.4.11
  • nimbus-jose-jwt: 9.31
  • snappy-java: 1.1.10.4
  • commons-compress: 1.24.0
• Ensure TaskOperations launch API is backwards compatible.
• Fix issues in dependency managements of modules after creating mono-repo.

Library Updates

• Spring Boot 2.7.16

See the release notes for more information.

Stay in touch...

As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub…

It is my pleasure to announce that a feature-complete Spring Data 2023.1 release candidate is available now! This release is in preparation for a first Spring Boot 3.2 release candidate next week. We expect final releases for general availability in November.

This RC ships a couple of New and Noteworthy changes:

• @ReadPreference support for Repository Query Methods and support for dots in MongoDB document field names.
• Revision of the Converter arrangement in Spring Data Relational allowing to use the same converter abstraction for JDBC and R2DBC modules.
• Asynchronous Caching support for Redis when using the Lettuce driver.
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Spring Shell 3.2.0-M2 is now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.2.0-M2 is now available from Spring repos.

This release is adding first experimental support for Terminal UI as shown in a below screencast:

Please see the release notes 3.2.0-M2 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2023.0.5, 2022.0.11, and 2021.2.17 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes and improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.1.5, respective 3.0.12 and 2.7.17 will pick up the above releases by next week.

We expect the next set of Spring Data maintenance releases to ship in mid-November, along with the new and exciting 3.2 we have been working on the last few months.

2023.0.5

• Spring Data Commons 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the Spring Framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that the first Spring Framework 6.1 release candidate is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now.

Spring Framework 6.1.0-RC1 ships 75 fixes and improvements.

New Features

This first release candidate ships a few new features:

• Spring Framework 6.1 requires now a Jackson 2.14 baseline and supports the new DatatypeFeature
• We have made further AOT improvements, reduced the runtime reflection and prepared Framework for upcoming reachability changes in GraalVM
• You can now use an OutputStream as a source of data in reactive web APIs, thanks to a new BodyInserter method variant
• Functional web frameworks now allow headers manipulation when serving static resources; this makes it easier to write HTTP caching response headers.
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