Greetings Spring community,

The Spring Web Services team has released 3.1.1. This is the first major release under the new versioning schema. Releases will no longer have .RELEASE and snapshots will only be -SNAPSHOT, to better comply with community approaches.

While we strive to maintain alignment with Spring Framework and Spring Security, we also test against Java 8, Java 11, and Java LATEST (JDK 16 as of today).

For more details, read the following release notes for each version:

Release Notes - Spring Web Services - Version 3.1.1.

• #1198 - Test against JDK 16 on CI.

• #1197 - Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3.7.

• #1187 - Upgrade to Spring Security 5.5.0.

• #1199 - Don’t skip main build targets during releases.

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Update 2021-05-25: The release contains fixes for Spring Framework CVE-2021-22118.

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.0 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 2.5

• Support for Java 16
• Support for Gradle 7
• Enhanced Docker image building
• New mechanism for Datasource initialization

Additionally, the HTML documentation…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.2.7 and 4.3.3 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These patch releases come with a number of bug fixes, improvements and dependency updates. You can find the complete change logs here: 4.2.7 and 4.3.3.

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

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Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team and all the contributors, it’s my pleasure to announce a General Availability for Spring Integration 5.5, plus Spring Integration 5.4.7 patch release.

Both versions can be obtained from Maven Central and it is recommended to upgrade your projects or just pull them transitively from respective latest Spring Boot patch versions!

compile 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.5.0'

Spring Integration 5.4.7 version contains mostly critical bug fixes and here is a highlight of notable changes made to Spring Integration 5.5, which, in…

On behalf of the community, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Security 5.5. This release is the result of the work that went into 5.5.0-M1, 5.5.0-M2, 5.5.0-M3, 5.5.0-RC1, 5.5.0-RC2 and 5.5.0. In combination, they close 250+ tickets.

You can find the highlights of 5.5 in the What’s new section of the Spring Security reference.

As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring AMQP 2.3.7 and 2.2.17.RELEASE are available now.

Both versions have some number of bug fixes and minor improvements together with upgrades to the latest minor dependencies. See their release notes for more information:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-amqp/releases/tag/v2.2.17.RELEASE https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-amqp/releases/tag/v2.3.7

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases later this week.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 2.5.13.RELEASE, 2.6.8 and 2.7.1 are available now.

All versions have some number of bug fixes and minor improvements, especially additions to recently introduced Topic Delayed Non-Blocking Retry. Big thanks to Tomaz Fernandes for amazing contributions in this area!

See their release notes for more information:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v2.5.13.RELEASE https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v2.6.8 https://github.com/spring…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data service releases 2021.0.1 and 2020.0.9.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.7. For your convenience, these releases can be consumed through Spring Boot 2.5.0 respective 2.4.6.

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

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

2021.0.1

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.3.4! This release fixes including a fix where Spring LDAP breaks on JDK9+.

You can find the complete details in the release notes.