I am excited to announce that Spring HATEOAS 1.4 GA has been part of the cascade of releases that lead to the Spring Boot 2.6 last week. The release ships a couple of new features and all bug fixes we have incorporated in the 1.3.x line. The most notable new features are:

• Full support for level 4 URI templates

• Support for non-composite request parameter rendering

• Improved HAL-FORMS support (additional property constraints, custom media types)

• Additional HTML input types (checkbox, radio, file)

• General dependency upgrades, including Spring Framework 5.3.13 and Jackson 2.13.9.

Find more detailed information about all changes made in the 1.4 line in the release’s change log. The release was included in the Spring Boot 2.6 release announced last week…

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 2.6

• Support for SameSite attributes on session cookies for servlet applications
• Support for configuring health groups on the main or management port
• Enhanced /info endpoint with Java Runtime information
• Support for testing Spring MVC using WebTestClient
• Auto-configuration for spring-rabbit-stream
• Support for pluggable rules for sanitizing properties in /env and configprops
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 26 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of OSS Support

2.4.x has now reached the end of its OSS support period and regular releases will no longer be made. If you are still on this version, please consider upgrading at your earliest convenience. If you cannot upgrade at this time, commercial support is available…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 35 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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I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 2.8.0 is now available.

Notable Changes

• This version uses the 3.0.0 kafka-clients version

• Out of order manual commits are now supported

• The same container factory can now be used for both batch and record listeners

• Separate record and batch error handlers have been replaced with common error handlers

• KafkaTemplate can now be used to receive specific records from known partitions/offsets

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

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I am pleased to announce that Spring AMQP 2.4.0 is now available.

Notable Changes

• Initial support for the RabbitMQ Stream Plugin

• Support for remoting using Spring Framework’s RMI support is deprecated

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 Spring Cloud Netflix version 2.2.10.RELEASE has been released.

This is primarily a security release that fixes the CVE-2021-22053.

Applications using both spring-cloud-netflix-hystrix-dashboard and spring-boot-starter-thymeleaf exposed a way to execute code submitted within the request URI path during the resolution of view templates. When a request was made at /hystrix/monitor;[user-provided-data], the path elements following hystrix/monitor were being evaluated as SpringEL expressions, which could lead to code execution.

This release…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.2.8 and 4.3.4 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These patch releases come with a number of bug fixes and dependency updates. You can find the complete change logs here: 4.2.8 and 4.3.4.

I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in these releases!

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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.0.7 and 2020.0.15 service releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.13. For your convenience, you can consume Spring Data 2021.0.7 and 2020.0.15 through the upcoming Spring Boot releases, 2.5.7 and 2.4.13, respectively.

2020.0.x reached its end of life and will no longer be part of regular OSS releases. If you are still on this version, please consider upgrading at your earliest convenience.

Both service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

To round things off…