On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 31 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 2.6.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 38 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 2.7.0-RC1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes more than a 100 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

• Auto-configuration for Kafka Retry Topics
• Auto-configuration for RSocket support in GraphQL

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?

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…

On behalf of everyone involved, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first and final release candidate of Spring for GraphQL 1.0. We're finally going to release a 1.0 version on May 17, the reference version for Spring Boot 2.7.0. We've shipped a few noteworthy changes and one important new feature in this release.

Note: The Spring for GraphqL Boot starter is up-to-date with the changes discussed in this post and Spring Boot 2.7.0-RC1 is scheduled to be released on Thursday this week.

GraphQL over RSocket

Spring for GraphQL started out with the HTTP and WebSocket transports - must haves in the GraphQL world. Our programming model allows adding others too, and our existing infrastructure pointed at another clear candidate: the RSocket protocol…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2021.2.0-RC1, 2021.1.3 and 2021.0.6. The 2021.2.0 release train is entering the RC phase. If you haven’t done so yet, please give it a try! The 2021.1.3 and 2021.0.6 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 2021.2.0-RC1:

• Spring Session Core 2.7.0-RC1 - release notes
• Spring Session Data Redis 2.7.0-RC1 - release notes
• Spring Session JDBC 2.7.0-RC1 - release notes
• Spring Session Hazelcast 2.7.0-RC1 - release notes
• Spring Session MongoDB 2.7.0-RC1 - release notes
• Spring Session for Apache Geode 2.7.0-RC1
…

The 2021.2.0 release train is entering the RC phase. If you haven't done so yet, please give it a try! The 2021.1.4 and 2021.0.11 service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience those will be picked up by Spring Boot in the upcoming days.

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

2021.2.0-RC1

• Spring Data Commons 2.7 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.4 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.7 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.7 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.4 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.4 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.7 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.3 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.7.0-RC1!

In addition to dependency upgrades, bug fixes, and minor enhancements, the release candidate contains a few noteworthy changes:

• Introduced SecurityContextHolderFilter - Ability to require explicit saving of the SecurityContext

• Added DSL support for Cross Origin Policies headers

• Allow configuring PKCE for confidential clients

• Added SAML 2.0 Login & Single Logout XML support

This release candidate is a good opportunity to give feedback before the actual GA release in mid-May. We look forward…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 5.6.3 and 5.5.6 are available now.

You can find more details about the respective releases here and here.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.19 and 5.2.21 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.19 includes 12 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.21 includes 5 selected fixes and improvements.

In addition, Spring Framework 5.3.19 and 5.2.21 include a fix for CVE-2022-22968: Spring Framework Data Binding Rules Vulnerability and are recommended upgrades for all Spring production scenarios.

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