On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 120 issues and pull requests.

Please note the slight change in the format of the version. 2.4.0-M1 is the first Spring Boot release to use the new versioning scheme.

With Spring Boot 2.4, we have switched to a 6-month release cadence. All being well, you can expect to see 2.4.0 reach general availability in October or November.

Highlights of this first milestone include:

• Preliminary support for JDK 15
• Spring Batch 4.3 M1
• Spring Data 2020.0 M1
• Spring Framework 5.3 M1
• Spring Security 5.4 M1
• Filtered metric scraping with Prometheus
• Numerous other dependency upgrades
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Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the first milestone for Spring Integration 5.4 generation.

It can be downloaded from our milestone repository:

compile 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.4.0-M1'

The Spring Integration 5.4 generation is full based on recently released Spring Framework 5.3 M1 including all the deprecation resolutions, removal some obsolete API and aggressive upgrade the latest versions for dependencies.

Long-waiting community request has been fulfilled and now Spring Integration…

On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-M1 is now available from our milestone repository.

What’s new?

This release is packed with new features, performance improvements, and bug fixes, as well as documentation and dependency updates! You can find the complete list of changes in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

New features

1. New synchronized ItemStreamWriter

Similar to the SynchronizedItemStreamReader, we added a SynchronizedItemStreamWriter. This feature is useful in multi-threaded steps where concurrent threads need to be…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m happy to announce the first milestone of the 2020.0 (Code name "Ockham") release train, 2020.0.0-M1. This release ships with over 120 tickets fixed. This Spring Data release is the first release using calver as an update to the release train version scheme.

The most notable new features are:

• Support for RxJava 3
• Introduction of org.springframework.data:spring-data-bom, which replaces org.springframework.data:spring-data-releasetrain

You can find a curated changelog in our release train wiki or skim through a full list of changes in JIRA.

A second…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.3 M1 is available from our milestone repository now! Find an initial list of new features and refinements and corresponding upgrade notes including several deprecations on our wiki.

Please note that 5.3 is designed as the final 5.x feature release, wrapping up the major themes in the Spring Framework 5 generation, in particular reactive programming and Kotlin support, while also taking GraalVM compatibility to the next level. Last but not least, we are not only…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.7.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) bugfix: automatic live hover detection works again reliably
• (Eclipse) update: Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution updated to Eclipse 2020-06 release
• (Eclipse) improvement: added support for multiple instances of symbols view
• (Eclipse) improvement: added favorites dropdown to symbols view
• (Eclipse) improvement: boot dashboard shows request mappings, beans, and the environment of running apps now if SSH tunnel is enabled for the app on CF
• (Eclipse) update: Support SemVer format in Spring Initializr wizard (#473)
• (Eclipse) bugfix: STS 4.6.2 and Eclipse 2020-06 RC1: FrameworkEvent ERROR (#477…

On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and VMware GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (SBDG) 1.1.8.RELEASE and 1.2.8.RELEASE.

SBDG 1.1.8.RELEASE is based on Spring Boot 2.1.15.RELEASE and SBDG 1.2.8.RELEASE is based on Spring Boot 2.2.8.RELEASE. Bits for both releases are available in Maven Central.

As a friendly reminder, please refer to the Version Compatibility Matrix to see how SBDG aligns with Spring, Apache Geode and VMware GemFire versions.

SBDG 1.1.x is fixed on Spring Data Lovelace, which is in support until October 2020. However, given SBDG 1.1.x is based on Spring Data Lovelace, which is based on Apache Geode 1.6.0 and VMware GemFire 9.5.4, both of which have reached their EOL, the SBDG 1.1.x release line will effectively only pick up dependency updates until October when SD Lovelace reaches EOL. No new development is happening SBDG 1.1.x. You are therefore encouraged to upgrade to SBDG 1.2.8.RELEASE or 1.3.0.RELEASE…

On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and VMware GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode and VMware GemFire (SBDG) 1.3.0.RELEASE.

This release builds on Spring Boot 2.3.0.RELEASE along with the latest Spring Framework (5.2.6), Spring Data (Neumann-GA/2.3.0) and Spring Session (Dragonfruit-GA/2.3.0) bits. In addition, SBDG 1.3.0.RELEASE pulls in Spring Test for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (STDG) 0.0.16.RELEASE giving users more fine-grained control for resource and mock object cleanup.

You can start a new Spring Boot project using Apache Geode from start.spring.io using Spring Initializer…

On behalf of the team and everyone that has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.1 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 127 bug fixes, enhancements, 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…