On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first release candidate of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 108 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this release include:

• Rationalization of configuration properties for Spring MVC servlet and Spring WebFlux reactive stacks,
• Refinements to the new config file processing, including the ability to load from config trees with a wildcard,
• Upgrades to the recently released Spring Framework 5.3 and Spring Data 2020.0 release train,
• Numerous other dependency upgrades,
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Hi Spring fans! This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to legendary Spring Test Framework lead and JUnit contributor Sam Brannen (@sam_brannen)

A critical piece of infrastructure, the Spring Artifactory instance repo.spring.io, lies at the heart of the Spring portfolio development work. Since 2013, JFrog, Inc. has generously sponsored the instance for the Spring developer community.

The Artifactory repository streamlines our project development by acting as a single location where Spring engineers can point their builds and by providing the community with early access to our snapshots and milestones.

Today, we are providing notice of some upcoming changes to the repository.

Upcoming Changes

If you use repo.spring.io as directed by start.spring.io, (for example, using only /snapshot and /milestone…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 92 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 2.2.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 50 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 am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.18 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 20 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

As mentioned in the announcement last year, this is the last release in the 2.1 line. Please consider upgrading to Spring Boot 2.3.x if you haven’t already done so.

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…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and our contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2020.0.0 is generally available from Maven Central.

Spring Data 2020.0.0 (Codename: Ockham) is the first release train using the changed versioning scheme, previous release trains were identified by name, such as Neumann-RELEASE.

This release train includes several themes. Here's a summary of the most important ones:

• Switch Release Train version to calver (2020.0.0) and introduce spring-data-bom artifact.
• Improve Graal Native Image experience.
• Reactive SpEL context extensions and auditing support.
• Include SDN-RX as Spring Data Neo4j 6.0.
• Oracle dialect for Spring Data JDBC.
• Refactor Spring Data R2DBC on top of Spring Framework’s R2DBC module.
• Upgrade to Redis 6.0 including support ACL authentication and enhanced support for Sorted Set commands.
• Support for RxJava 3.
• De-lombok production code.
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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce a Spring Data release triple feature: Neumann SR5, Moore SR11, and Lovelace SR21. These service releases are built on top of Spring Framework releases 5.2.10 (Neumann and Moore) and 5.1.19 (Lovelace) and ship with mostly dependency upgrades and fixes, along with a few selected improvements.

Spring Data Neumann SR5 contains 67 improvements and fixes. Spring Data Moore SR11 ships with 43 fixes and improvements. Finally, Spring Data Lovelace SR21 includes 17 selected fixes.

All service releases will be picked up by the upcoming Spring Boot 2.3.5, 2.2.11, and 2.1.18 releases (respectively), for…

Dear Spring Batch community,

On behalf of the team and all contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Batch 4.3 is now generally available from Maven Central!

This release comes with a number of new features, enhancements, and dependency updates. You can find the complete list of changes in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

• Java records support
• GraalVM support
• New synchronized ItemStreamWriter
• New JpaCursorItemReader Implementation
• Performance improvements in MongoItemWriter and RepositoryItemWriter
• And more!

These features and enhancements have been…