On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the Spring Cloud 2021.0.3 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.3 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.3 Release Train

This release is primarily for compatibility with Spring Boot 2.7.0 along with Spring Boot 2.6.x.

To see all the issues and pull requests in this release, please see here.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Bug fixes and minor enhancements

Spring Cloud Contract

• Bug fixes and JsonAssert upgrade

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Bug fixes and path variable support for PrefixPath filter.
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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 0.3.0.

You can download it from Maven Central by using the module coordinates:

implementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:0.3.0'

See the release notes for complete details.

With this release, you can view the initial version of the reference documentation and the new project page on spring.io.

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 74 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

• Auto-configuration for Micrometer Observation, Tracing, and OtlpMeterRegistry
• Reinstated Support for REST Assured and Pooled JMS

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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

How can you help?

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 2.7

The highlights of the 2.7 release include:

• Auto-configuration and metrics for Spring for GraphQL; see related 1.0 release announcement
• New @DataCouchbaseTest and @DataElasticsearchTest support
• Podman can now be used when building images using Cloud Native Buildpacks
• Support for Cache2k
• Simplified registration of Jackson Mixins
• Web server SSL configuration using PEM-encoded certs
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 35 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.14 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 29 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of OSS Support

2.5.x has now reached the end of its OSS support period and regular releases will no longer be made. If you are still on this version, please consider upgrading at your earliest convenience. If you cannot upgrade at this time, commercial support is available…

On behalf of the team, I’m please to announce the release of Spring Session 2021.2. This release upgrades to Spring Data 2021.2 and provides dependency upgrades, minor enhancements, bug fixes, and strategic changes to prepare Spring Session and it’s users for the next generation of Spring Session built on Spring Framework 6.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.0.0-M5 is available now.

This release includes dependency upgrades, bug fixes, and minor enhancements as well as a fix for a bug where the StrictHttpFirewall incorrectly rejects valid CJKV characters. The milestone contains a few noteworthy changes:

• Authorization on Every Dispatch Type

• Change the default of shouldFilterAllDispatchTypes to true

• Default to SecurityContextHolderFilter instead of SecurityContextPersistenceFilter

• Remove SAML Deprecations

See the release notes here and here for more…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.6 has been released to Maven Central and that Spring Batch 5.0.0-M3 is now available from our milestone repository.

Spring Batch 4.3.6 is a patch release that comes with a number of bug fixes, enhancements, and dependency updates. For more details about the changes, see the change log.

This blog post is more about 5.0.0-M3, which comes with three major features:

• Native support improvements
• UTF-8 by default
• New Maven Bill of Materials

Moreover, this milestone release comes with a number of enhancements, bug fixes, and dependency updates. See the change log…