On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2021.1.2 and 2020.0.9. Both releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot 2.6.4 respective 2.5.10 are going to pick up these releases in the upcoming days.

Along with the service releases, we released the next milestone 2021.2.0-M3 of the 2021.2 release train. We have summarized the new and noteworthy changes in our release notes.

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

2021.2.0-M3

• Spring Data Commons 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.4 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.4 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.4 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.3 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.16 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.16 includes 33 fixes and improvements.

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

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring LDAP 2.3.6 (release notes) and 2.4.0-M2 (release notes) are available now.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman)  talks to @Java team luminary and community legend Sharat Chander (@sharat_chander).

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at how to use the MyBatis data mapper project's new Spring Native hints to build GraalVM native images

Hi, Spring fans! I wanted to share this post by Julia Liuson, President, Developer Division at Microsoft.

When we launched Azure Spring Cloud with VMware in 2019, we set out to solve common challenges developers, IT operators, and DevOps teams face when running Spring Boot applications at scale. Since then we’ve had the opportunity to work with many customers to help them adopt the service including Bosch, Digital Realty, 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…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's dive right into it.

• Spring Tips: IO, IO, It's Off To Work We Go - this video took off! In it, I introduce IO, NIO, and Netty as a way to understand what we mean when we talk about blocking and non-blocking.
• Spring Boot Reference Documentation has been updated to include Kotlin
• Spring Data — Never Rollback Readonly Transactions
• Feb 1 - What's new in Spring Boot 2.6?
• Preview of Kotlin 1.6.20 With Prototype of Context Receivers, Parallel Compilation on JVM, Incremental Compilation in JS, and More | The Kotlin Blog
• Java's System Logger abstraction
• Deploying Carvel…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the wide and wonderful world of IO on the JVM.

Hi, Spring fans, and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doin' well. Got a lot of exciting stuff to share with you in the near future so check this space! We've got a ton to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Former Spring Data lead and architect extraordinaire, Oliver Drotbohm
• Introduce example value object implemented as record. · xmolecules/jmolecules-examples@4e60942
• Spring Shell 2.1.0-M2 is now available
• Spring Tools 4.13.1 released
• the initial Micrometer 2.0.0 and Micrometer Tracing 1.0.0 observability is on its way to Spring Boot!
• Additions and Updates to Microsoft Build of #OpenJDK https://t.co/LRWnPdBTIY #OpenJDK https://devblogs.microsoft.com/java/additions-and-updates-to-microsoft-build-of-openjdk/
• Blog: Spotlight on SIG Multicluster
• Build 33 of Java 18 is available
• Liberica Native Image Kit 22.0.0.2 and 21.3.1 builds are released…