On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the Spring Cloud 2021.0.3 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.3 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.3 Release Train

This release is primarily for compatibility with Spring Boot 2.7.0 along with Spring Boot 2.6.x.

To see all the issues and pull requests in this release, please see here.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Bug fixes and minor enhancements

Spring Cloud Contract

• Bug fixes and JsonAssert upgrade

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Bug fixes and path variable support for PrefixPath filter.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Vault 2.4.0-M1 and 3.0.0-M1 milestones have been released and are now available from repo.spring.io.

Notable new features include:

• Support for PEM-encoded certificates and private keys including Elliptic Curve ("EC")

• Support for Vault Repositories using versioned Key/Value secrets engines

• Support for Vault-based RevisionRepository using versioned Key/Value secrets engines

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Additionally, Spring Vault 3.0.0-M1 ships with:

• Upgrade to Java 17 baseline, Spring Framework 6

• Upgrade to AWS SDK v2

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Spring Boot and Spring Cloud luminary, the good Dr. @David_Syer, about the latest and greatest on Spring and Kubernetes

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 0.3.0.

You can download it from Maven Central by using the module coordinates:

implementation 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:0.3.0'

See the release notes for complete details.

With this release, you can view the initial version of the reference documentation and the new project page on spring.io.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the Getting Started chapter of the reference documentation and the samples to become familiar with setup and…

Spring Boot 2.0 was the first release in the 2.x line and was published on Feburary 28th 2018. We’ve just released Spring Boot 2.7 which means that, so far, we’ve been maintaining the 2.x line for just over 4 years. In total we’ve published 95 distinct releases over that timeframe!

The entire Spring team, and many in our community of contributors, are now preparing for the next generation of Spring. We are planning to release Spring Boot 3.0 in November 2022. This next major revision will be based on Spring Framework 6.0 and will require Java 17 or above. It will also be the first version of Spring Boot that makes use of Jakarta EE 9 APIs (jakarta.*) instead of EE 8 (javax.*…

Hi, Spring fans! I'm in Spain for business and not just a little pleasure. Yesterday, my partner, her mother, and I went to Formentera, Spain, a little island off of Ibiza, Spain. It was amazing. We're now in Ibiza, Spain, which is a little island not far from Barcelona, Spain, on the mainland of Spain. It feels a bit like that Inception movie. We traveled by boat to Formentera for a little vacation inside of another little vacation (Ibiza) and inside of another little vacation (Barcelona). Tomorrow I'll return to Barcelona for the Spring IO event. Yes, technically, this is work. But it's an…

Hi, Spring fans! This is a guest post by Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division, Microsoft

Azure Spring Cloud is now Azure Spring Apps

We launched Azure Spring Cloud with VMware in 2019 to solve common challenges developers, IT operators, and DevOps teams face when running Spring Boot applications at scale. Since then we’ve helped many customers adopt the service including Bosch, Digital Realty, FedEx, Kroger, Liantis, Morgan Stanley, National Life, Raley’s, and Swiss Re. They value the fully managed infrastructure of Azure Spring Cloud that lets them focus on their apps, while the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.14 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 29 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

End of OSS Support

2.5.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 Spring for GraphQL team and every contributor, it is my pleasure to announce the 1.0 GA release. It's been 10 months since the project was announced and under 2 years since the first commit, unremarkably called "first commit". The project began with the modest goal to replace the (now archived) minimal GraphQL Java Spring integration, but has since moved significantly beyond through community feedback and collaboration across Spring Boot, Spring Framework, Spring Data, and Spring Security.

The following are highlights from the release:

• Annotation-based programming model for data fetchers
• Data binding from input arguments with validation
• Field-level security through annotations on data @Controller methods
• Server handlers and interception over HTTP, WebSocket, and RSocket
• Querydsl and Query by Example repositories as data fetchers
• Batch loading support
• Client for executing over HTTP, WebSocket, and RSocket
• Test support with HTTP, WebSocket, RSocket, or directly, without a client
• GraphiQL page and schema printing page
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