Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Reliably CEO Russ Miles (@russmiles) about COVID, chaos engineering, reliable systems engineering and so much more.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 11 (SR11) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. Hoxton.SR11 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Add LoadBalancerRequestTransformer for WebClient-backed load-balancing

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Adds support for evicting connections
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Spring Data 2021.0, codenamed Pascal, is the second release following the new six-month cadence. It ships with refinements to many existing interfaces and programming models. This blog post explains the following topics:

• Introduce deleteAllById for CrudRepository and ReactiveCrudRepository.

• Support for Spring Core Java Flight Recorder (JFR) metrics.

• QueryByExample for R2DBC and Oracle support.

• Enable Type- and Refactoring-safe Use of KProperty and KPropertyPath for Property Path Rendering.

• Enable Cassandra Prepared Statements for Repositories and CassandraTemplate.

• Document Unwrapping Support & Relaxed Aggregation Type Checks for MongoDB.

• Repository projections & function execution for Apache Geode.

• Remove Spring Data Solr from the release train.

• Support for jMolecules.

• Spring Data REST aggregate reference mapping in DTOs.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week we've got a ton of stuff to get to so let's dive right in!

• 5 WAYS to go to PRODUCTION with SPRING BOOT (ft. surprise guest)! - YouTube
• A Bootiful Podcast: Biden campaign CTO, Spinnaker cofounder, Target distinguished engineer, and all around epic guy Dan Woods
• A cool sample Spring Boot app from Oracle
• A nice blog on Spring HATEOAS
• An interesting use case with Azure Spring Cloud and SwissRe
• Blog: Annotating Kubernetes Services for Humans
• Blog: Defining Network Policy Conformance for Container Network Interface (CNI) providers
• Blog: Introducing Indexed Jobs
• Blog: Local Storage: Storage Capacity Tracking, Distributed…

In preparation for the GA release on May 20 2021, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.0-RC1 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release adds a number of new features and bug fixes.

Highlights of the RC include:

• A new actuator endpoint for Quartz
• Support for database initialization with R2DBC
• Micometer metrics support for Spring Data repositories and MongoDB
• Support for Gradle 7.0

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.5.0-RC1 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started with 2.5 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on start.spring.io…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Netflixer, Spinnaker continuous delivery platform co-founder, Target distinguished engineer, Biden campaign CTO, RatPack contributor, and an all-around epic guy Dan Woods (@danveloper).

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 57 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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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 78 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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Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team and all the contributors, it’s my pleasure to announce a Release Candidate 1 for Spring Integration 5.5, plus Spring Integration 5.4.6 & 5.3.7 patch versions.

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

The Release Candidate is available from the https://repo.spring.io/milestone/ repository:

compile 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.5.0-RC1'

Here is a highlight of changes made to Spring Integration 5.5 RC1 since previously announced Milestone 3…