On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone release of Spring Batch 5.0 is available now from https://repo.spring.io/milestone. This first milestone includes a number of major changes such as requiring Java 17+, migrating to Jakarta EE 9 APIs as well as upgrading our dependencies across the portfolio to major versions such as Spring Framework 6.0. For a complete list of changes, please check the change log.

We also took the opportunity of this major version to remove deprecated APIs and fix some issues that require non backward compatible changes. The migration guide contains more details about these changes and…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.6.RELEASE has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 18 bug fixes and documentation improvements. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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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-M1 and 5.7.0-M1 are available now.

This initial 6.0 milestone covers the baseline upgrade efforts, in particular requiring JDK 17+ and migrating to the Jakarta EE 9 APIs, required by Spring Framework 6, as announced in this blog post.

For the release changes, please refer to the releases page.

Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-M1 this week!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring REST Docs 3.0.0-M1 is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This initial 3.0 milestone contains 13 enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. It covers the baseline upgrade efforts, in particular requiring JDK 17 and Spring Framework 6 and migrating to the Jakarta EE 9 APIs as announced in this blog post.

Please note that support for REST Assured has been removed temporarily as it is not yet compatible with Jakarta EE 9. We hope to reinstate support in a…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the first round of milestones of the Spring Data 2022.0 and 2021.2 release trains.

2021.x vs. 2022.x

You might now ask why is there a new release in the calver 2021.x version and why is there already a 2022.x release?

In parallel to working on Spring Data 3.x, aka 2022.0.0, we continue to invest in the support of the Spring Data 2.x development line. We already expect Spring Data 2.7 and 2.8 releases. So, if you want to continue using Spring Boot 2 for an extended period of time, stick to the 2021.x release trains (which are based on Spring Framework 5.3 and Java 8). That's the reason we chose to continue with calver 2021.x, which, hopefully, makes understanding version compatibilities easier. Our Spring Data 3.x development line will be based on Java 17 and Spring Framework 6 and be compatible with …

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2021.1.1 and 2020.0.8. Both releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up the artifacts with its upcoming releases.

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

2021.1.1

• Spring Data Commons 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.3.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.3.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.2.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.3.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M2 and 5.3.15 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.15 includes 17 fixes and improvements as a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios. Spring Framework 6.0.0-M2 includes 6 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch.

Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-M1 next week!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Native 0.11.1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/release.

This release includes 13 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the 0.4.0 release of Spring Cloud Square is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 0.4.0 release notes for more information.

Notable changes in 0.4.0:

• Spring Native support adjustments for non-load-balanced use-cases (PR)
• Support for configuring different WebClient.Builder beans (not shared) for each @RetrofitClient instance (PR)
• Spring Cloud Sleuth integration for OkHttpClient #36

The documentation for this release can be found here.