Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Microsoft's Rome Li (@akalirong) on his work supporting Microsoft Azure from IntelliJ, Visual Studio, Maven, Eclipse, and Visual Studio Code.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 35 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 2.6.0-M2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes more than a 100 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…

ear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.11.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Fixes in this release

• (VS Code, Spring Boot) fixed: [codespaces] spring boot extension starting up multiple times in Codespaces setting (#669)
• (VS Code, Spring Boot) fixed: [codespaces] spring boot extension doesn't find the right JDK when connecting to a codespace (#670)
• (VS Code, Spring Boot) fixed: JAVA_Home should be right but still shows "Note Java 8 can still be used in your own projects" (#664)
• (Eclipse) improvement: progress view shows many AsyncLiveExpression refresh messages and doesn't respond anymore (#653)
• (Eclipse) improvement: latest CI builds do not show port of running app anymore (#659)
• (Concourse) improvement: Property 'commit_message' not recognized for semver resources (#655…

We are very excited to announce that Spring Authorization Server has officially moved out of experimental status and into the Spring project’s portfolio!

This move coincides with this week’s 0.2.0 release, which is the first officially supported production-ready version backed by our new support policy.

Since announcing the Spring Authorization Server in April 2020, the implemented features provide support for a large portion of the OAuth 2.1 Authorization Framework and modest support for OpenID Connect 1.0. However, as we move onto the next phase of development, our focus changes to advancing…

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm alright. I've been recuperating from a COVID-19 infection. Today was the first day in a while that I woke up and wasn't short of breath. Most days, I've woken up, hacked a few wads of phlegm into the toilet, and then my breathing was fine. But today I woke up and wasn't short of breath in the first place. (I still hacked a few wads of phlegm). Thank goodness for vaccines, or I expect my experience of this virus would've been much worse as a lifelong asthmatic. Things are looking up!

And then, as if my fortunes couldn't get any better, I got to compiling this week's roundup and there's a ton of great…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Neo4j CEO and Spring Data cofounder Emil Eifrem (@emileifrem) .

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data2021.0.4 and 2020.0.12 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 2.5.4 and 2.4.10, 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:

2021.0.4

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.1.0-M2 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-M2, which our team mates on the Boot team will release in about a week.

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

• Spring Data Commons 2.6 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.3 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.6 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.3 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.6 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.2 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.3 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.6 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …