On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data2021.0.2 and 2020.0.10 service releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.9. For your convenience, you can consume these releases through Spring Boot 2.5.3 and 2.4.9, respectively. Our teammates on the Boot team will release those in about a week.

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:

2021.0.3

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.1.0-M1 milestone release.

The release is built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.9. For your convenience, you can consume this release through Spring Boot 2.6.0-M1, which our team mates on the Boot team will release in about a week.

The 2021.1 release train ships a set of features and dependency upgrades. The most important changes are:

• Upgrade to Querydsl 5.
• Support for a wide range of Redis 6.2 commands.
• Support for dialect-dependent custom conversions in Spring Data JDBC. This was used to improve the support of java.time types across multiple databases.
• Support for streaming large result sets in Spring Data JDBC.
• Support for AggregateReference in query derivation.
• REF_CURSOR support for stored procedures in Spring Data JPA.
• Upgrade to MongoDB Driver 4.3 and initial support for MongoDB Server 5.0 Time Series.
• Spring Data MongoDB comes with extended capabilities for linking documents and offers, next to the existing DBRef approach, a property-based solution that uses simple values, such as the target _id…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to author, prolific public speaker, an architect's architect, and one of the most interesting people I get to bump into, and learn from, in this wacky, wild, and wonderful ecosystem of ours: Simon Brown (@simonbrown).

TL;DR - head over to spring.io/survey to take the State of Spring 2021 survey! You can also RT this tweet and help spread the word! Thank you <3

We ran the State of Spring survey last year, and it was a huge success. Spring community members across the globe, like you, shared their views and experiences, and it all made for fantastic reading.

The survey is back this year, and we want to hear from you! How can Spring help you build new apps and experiences this year? What would you like us to change? This year, we have new sections on Spring Native, building & sharing APIs internally…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I look at some key features made possible by the new Spring Integration 5.5 release, including the new Spring .zip archive support and the new Spring Native hints supporting GraalVM native images

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.9 and 5.2.16 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.9 includes 45 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.16 includes 12 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases next week.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm heads-down, hurriedly making final preparations for tomorrow's SpringOne Tour episode installment. This is going to be SO MUCH FUN. Do NOT miss this show tomorrow morning, 10AM California time. I'll be there, along with my friends Madhura Bhave, Olga Maciaszek-Sharma, Bella Bai, Whitney Lee, Core Iberkleid, Nate Schutta, and special guest star Angie Jones.

We look forward to seeing you there and we'll explore the wide and wonderful world of continuous delivery, testing and more together.

• JOOQ 3.15.0 Release is out, and includes support for R2DBC (and much more)
• Neat! The JRE will be UTF-8 by default instead of dangerously assuming the host operating system's default: openjdk/jdk
• A Bootiful Podcast: Matt Raible Last week, I talked to Matt Raible, and you can too! I love that guy. So happy he was able to join the show again.
• Spring Tips: Spring Cloud Square
• This is neat: you can run TestNG tests with JUnit 5 now
• Piotr Mińkowski on Twitter: JPAstreamer is a library for expressing JPA/Hibernate queries as Java streams. It can be also integrated with Spring.
• Apress' R2DBC Revealed…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 0.1.2.

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

compile 'org.springframework.security.experimental:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:0.1.2'

For additional details on this new project, see the initial announcement and project page.

The main features delivered in this release are:

• Ability to configure a custom Authorization Consent page (gh-283)

• JDBC implementation of RegisteredClientRepository (gh-265), OAuth2AuthorizationService (gh-245) and OAuth2AuthorizationConsentService (gh-313)

• Ability to configure the Authorization Endpoint (gh-342)

• Ability to configure the Token Endpoint (gh-319)

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It's Matt Raible! I love talking to Matt Raible, and I'll bet you would too. He's one of the good ones, people. One of the legends of the Java and JavaScript communities. One of the greats. Enjoy!