On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.0-M2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 137 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

• Test slices for Couchbase and Elasticsearch
• Enhancements to auto-configuration registration and ordering
• Support for OkHttp4

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

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

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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2021.0.5 and 2021.1.2. These releases deliver bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up these artifacts with its upcoming releases.

The following modules were updated as part of 2021.0.5:

• Spring Session Core 2.5.5 - release notes
• Spring Session Data Redis 2.5.5 - release notes
• Spring Session JDBC 2.5.5 - release notes
• Spring Session Hazelcast 2.5.5 - release notes

The following modules were updated as part of 2021.1.2:

• Spring Session Core 2.6.2 - release notes
• Spring Session Data Redis 2.6.2 - release notes
• Spring Session JDBC 2.6.2 - release notes
• Spring Session Hazelcast 2.6.2 - release notes
• Spring Session MongoDB 2.6.2 - release notes
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.5 has been released to Maven Central repository. This patch release comes with a number of bug fixes, enhancements and dependency updates. You can find the complete change logs here: 4.3.5.

I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in this release!

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.5 (release notes) and Spring Security 5.6.2 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.7.0-M2.

You can find the complete list of dependency updates, bug fixes and enhancements in the release notes.

Among the enhancements you will find we have deprecated the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter. For additional details you can check out this blog post on the future of Spring Security without the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter.

We look forward to hearing your feedback.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 1 of the Spring Cloud 2021.0 Release Train is available today. This was primarily a bug fix release. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.1 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.1 Release Train

See the project page for all issues included in the release.

Spring Cloud Config

• Fix pattern matching bug with JSON, YAML, and properties files (2020)

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Numerous bug fixes

Spring Cloud Contract

• Bug fixes

Spring Cloud Gateway

• A new route predicate that checks for allowed values for the X-Forwarded-For header, similar to the RemoteAddr predicate. (783)
• Allows setting of the order of the Gateway HandlerMapping. By default, the Gateway HandlerMapping has precedence, but it can be changed if require. (2469)
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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2021.1.2 and 2020.0.9. Both releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot 2.6.4 respective 2.5.10 are going to pick up these releases in the upcoming days.

Along with the service releases, we released the next milestone 2021.2.0-M3 of the 2021.2 release train. We have summarized the new and noteworthy changes in our release notes.

To round things off, here are the links to the individual modules, changelogs, and documentation:

2021.2.0-M3

• Spring Data Commons 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.4 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.4 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.4 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.3 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.16 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.16 includes 33 fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases next week.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring LDAP 2.3.6 (release notes) and 2.4.0-M2 (release notes) are available now.

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