Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and everyone who contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2020.0.0 has entered its release candidate phase by releasing the first of two release candidate releases, available from the milestone repository. This release ships with 70 tickets fixed. The most notable changes are:

• Support for Redis 6 ACL and upgrade to Lettuce 6.0 RC2.
• Migration of core R2DBC support from Spring Data R2DBC to Spring R2DBC.
• Support the SocketFactory configuration client in Spring Data Geode.
• Slice query support for Neo4j and a revised API for relationships.
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.8.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

This release includes major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2020-09 release
• requires a JDK11 to run on
• ships with an embedded JDK14 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore
• includes Eclipse Docker tooling by default now (in addition to the nice docker integration for the Spring Boot Dashboard)
• includes Wild Web Developer tooling now (#354), including advanced support for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and more
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On behalf of the community and everyone who has contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.5.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users.

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Dear Spring community,

please, meet the third (and the last) 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-M3'

Since the previous milestone 2 this release brings number of bug fixes and some internal improvement, including alignment with new Sink API from project Reactor in the FluxMessageChannel and IntegrationReactiveUtils.

See What’s New in documentation for more information.

This version is going to be pulled in the upcoming Spring Boot 2.4.0-M3 release tomorrow.

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Updated on 2020-09-17 to add links to CVE-2020-5421 and the corresponding Spring Boot releases.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a full round of Spring Framework releases.

Spring Framework 5.2.9 includes 42 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.18 includes 16 selected fixes and improvements.

Maintenance releases for 5.0.x (5.0.19) and 4.3.x (4.3.29) with 13 selected fixes and improvements and 9 selected fixes and improvements respectively are also available today.

All of the releases include a fix for CVE-2020-5421.

Stay tuned for the release candidate of Spring Framework 5.3 and follow-up Spring Boot releases 2.1.17, 2.2.10, and 2.3.4…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the development team, it is my pleasure to announce that a feature-complete Spring Framework 5.3 release candidate is available from our milestone repository now! Check out the list of new features and upgrade notes on our GitHub wiki, including several deprecation notes.

As the last feature branch of the 5.x generation, we are preparing the 5.3.x line for general availability in late October - with an extended maintenance phase up until 2024. While we strongly encourage appropriate migration steps, all of our deprecated packages are going to remain in place…

On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of the first Spring Vault milestone release 2.3.0-M1 of the 2.3 development line.

Most notable changes in this release are:

• Support for Vault’s Transform secrets backend. Please note that this is an enterprise feature.

• A ReactiveVaultEndpointProvider for non-blocking lookup of VaultEndpoint that can be used for reactive service discovery.

• VaultKeyValueMetadataOperations for Key-Value metadata interaction.

• Updates to our documentations specifically on how to use Vault’s various secret backends with Spring Vault.

For a complete list of changes see the 2.3.0-M1 changelog…

On behalf of the community, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Security 5.4. This release is the result of the work that went into 5.4.0-M1, 5.4.0-M2, 5.4.0-RC1, and 5.4.0. In combination, they close 250+ tickets.

You can find the highlights of 5.4 in the What’s new section of the Spring Security reference.

As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback!

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.7.2 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse) new: this releases introduces a completely new wizard in Eclipse to add Spring Boot starter modules to existing projects. Take a look at the user guide section about it to learn all about this new and way more flexible way to add modules to your Spring Boot projects.
• (Eclipse) new: this releases introduces an experimental early version of support for the Spring Boot OCI image building support in combination with…