On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.6 and 5.2.14 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.6 includes 19 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.14 includes 11 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases later this week.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.2.10 (release notes), Spring Security 5.3.9 (release notes), and Spring Security 5.4.6 (release notes). These releases delivers bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.0-RC1!

In addition to dependency upgrades, bug fixes, and minor enhancements, the release candidate contains a few noteworthy changes:

• JWT client authentication support for OAuth 2.0 clients

• JWT bearer authorization grant support for OAuth 2.0 clients

• AuthorizationManager, a new authorization API for filter security

• Kotlin coroutine support for reactive method security

• OpenSAML 4 support

This release candidate is a good opportunity to give feedback before the actual GA release in mid-May. We look…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Ambassador Labs devrel director, InfoQ contributor, lifelong learner, and awesome human, and friend Daniel Bryant (@danielbryantuk).

• the Ambassador Office Hours
• Sign up for the Rapid Development with Azure Spring Cloud webinar that Microsoft's Julien Dubois and I are putting on April 15th, 2021.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doing alright, thank you. We've got a ton of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• Join Julien Dubois and me for this look at a rapid development with Azure Spring Cloud
• A Bootiful Podcast: SpringFox creator Marty Pitt on Swagger, Vyne and Taxi lang, and much more
• A new Microsoft build of OpenJDK will become the default in Azure
• API Rate Limiting with Spring Cloud Gateway
• Blog: PodSecurityPolicy Deprecation: Past, Present, and Future
• Check out the new release of Spring Cloud SleuthOpenTelemetry support
• Ki is a New, More Flexible Kotlin Interactive Shell - I love this!
• Run Spring Cloud Gateway for Kubernetes
• Spring Data 2021.0.0-RC1 and 2020.0.7 released
• …

One of the imperative architectural concerns is to protect APIs and service endpoints from harmful effects, such as denial of service, cascading failure. or overuse of resources. Rate limiting is a technique to control the rate by which an API or a service is consumed. In a distributed system, no better option exists than to centralize configuring and managing the rate at which consumers can interact with APIs. Only those requests within a defined rate would make it to the API. Any more would raise an HTTP “Many requests” error.

Spring Cloud Gateway (SCG) is a simple and lightweight component…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Swagger-SpringMVC (which eventually became SpringFox) creator and Vyne creator Marty Pitt (@marty_pitt).

• Reach Marty by email
• Vyne
• SpringFox

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data releases 2021.0.0-RC1 and 2020.0.7.

If you use Spring Boot and want to upgrade to 2021.0.0-RC1 or 2020.0.7, set the spring-data-bom.version` property accordingly.

While the service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades, the release candidate contains a few noteworthy changes:

• Improved error messages and exceptions if a repository cannot be created.
• Support @Value meta-annotations on persistence constructor parameters.
• Add support for projections inside the Neo4j templates and CypherDsl executors.
• Consider @Column- and @Element-annotated constructor parameters with Cassandra.
• Add support to Redis Streams by using Jedis Client and upgrade to Jedis 3.6.0-RC1 and Lettuce 6.1.0.RELEASE.
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's nearly April? Time sure flies when you're having fun! There's a lot of good stuff to get to this week, particularly around the nascent and just announced Spring Native project which people seem to love, so let's get to it!

• The amazing Andy Clement and I presented on Spring Native and GraalVM at JRush last week. Here's the recording
• A Bootiful Podcast: Shigeru Urushibara, President and CEO at UL Systems, Inc., and Japanese technology ecosystem legend. This is one of my favorite episodes of all time. Urushibara-san is a great technologist and an even better person.
• A neat Infoq article on Spring Native
• I like this German-language article on Spring Boot and container images called Container-Images: Abschied vom Dockerfile
• How to Debug Your Spring Native Applications
• …