On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 5.8.0-M2 is available now.

This release includes dependency upgrades, bug fixes, and enhancements. Here are a few noteworthy changes:

• Hash-based Content-Security-Policy for SAML post pages

• Customization of redirect strategy

See the 5.8.0-M2 release notes for more details.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 5.7.3 and 5.6.7 are available now. In both cases the releases are largely composed of dependency upgrades and minor fixes.

To learn more, please visit the 5.7.3 and 5.6.7 release summaries.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.9.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release contains an update of the Spring Boot version (2.5.14) and numerous bug fixes. See the release notes for more information.

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

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.15.3 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Spring Boot Tools slow down code complete (#808)
• (Language Server) fixed: Copied files should retain copyright ownership (#807)

To download the distribution for Eclipse and find links to the marketplace entries for Visual Studio Code and Theia, please go visit:

• Spring Tools 4: https://spring.io/tools/

Detailed changes can be found here: https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/wiki/Changelog#2022-08-11-4153-release…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.15.2 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

fixes and improvements

• (Spring Boot) fixed: Validation errors on @@ placeholders in YAML editor (#711)
• (VSCode) fixed: Live process is not auto connected when app is launched in internalConsole (#794)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Cleanup / reduce verbosity of diagnostic output in Eclipse logs (#798)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Not properly disposed SWT resource was caused Spring Starter Project (#797)
• (Eclipse) fixed: avoid live hover connection attempt when deploying app to docker without actuator (#716)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Devtools integration with boot dash docker is broken (#724)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Pause / Resume for docker boot dash malfunctions (#783…

I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 2.9.0 is now available.

This version is not provided by Spring Boot dependency management, but it can be used with Boot 2.7 (or 2.6), as long as you override the Kafka dependencies to 3.2.0 as described in this appendix, especially if you are using the embedded Kafka broker.

Please see the release candidate announcement for notable changes in this release.

For information about all changes in this release, see What’s New.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 4 (M4) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2022.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0.0 Release Train

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-M4 is compatible with Spring Boot 3.0.0-M4.

Spring Cloud Stream

• Initial version of fully reactive Kafka binder
• Improved support for Kafka tombstone records via BiFunction
• Spring Native improvements
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the Spring Cloud OpenFeign 3.0.8 is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. This version is compatible with 2020.0.6 Spring Cloud release, but it's not included in the bom, so it has to be set up manually in project build files.

Notable Changes in the 3.0.8 Release

This is primarily a bugfix and documentation release, that backports fixes over from 3.1.x releases. The most notable backport is the Fix related to cascading Spring Data's Page deserialisation.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.0 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

Please see the release notes for more details.

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

Earlier this year we started an effort align the project with latest Spring Boot and Spring Framework versions as it was difficult to use existing Spring Shell release of a spring family.

Originally the main issue we wanted to address was a removal of a bean cycles which Spring Boot is now enforcing by default. While this feature can be turned off it is not something Spring Shell should require. This required a lot of changes and we chose to handle it with rework of a shell internals. One big challenge was how the old Spring Shell worked by essentially keeping command info methods backed by @ShellMethod…