Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wild and wonderful installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to inspiration, legend and fellow Java champion and legend Angie Jones (@techgirl1908). Also: Java 16, the R2DBC driver for Oracle database, Spring Native (GraalVM!), and Bootiful Cassandra!

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data releases 2021.0.0-M5, 2020.0.6, and Neumann SR8.

2021.0.0-M5 and 2020.0.6 will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.5.0-M3 and 2.4.4, respectively, in the next few days. If you use Spring Boot 2.3 and want to upgrade to Neumann SR8, set the spring-data-releasetrain.version property to Neumann-SR8.

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

• Support for the jMolecules' Association type.
• Reactive support for SearchTemplate using Elasticsearch.
• Redis Streams support using the Jedis client.
• Spring Data R2DBC support for Query by Example and Oracle.
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.10.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2021-03 release

reminder

• the Eclipse-based distribution of the Spring Tools 4 requires a JDK11 (or newer) to run on
• ships with an embedded JDK15 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore

additional changes

• (Spring Boot) enhancement: .sts4 dir location now configurable (#601)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: sometimes live hovers do not disappear (#609)
• (Eclipse) fixed: debugger didn't connect automatically to apps deployed to docker from the boot dashboard
• (Eclipse) fixed: STS 4.8.0 template proposals invalid (#579)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Fresh sts-4.9.0 starts with errors - no way to add Task repository (#606)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Error on installing Mylyn JIRA Connector in STS 4.9.0 (#599)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Duplicate com.sun.xml.bind installed screw other plugins (#588)
• (Eclipse) update: remove WTP-based HTML tooling from Spring Tools 4 distribution (#572…

The following is a guest post from the maintainers of the Spring Cloud AWS project.

On behalf of the Spring Cloud AWS team and the community around Spring Cloud AWS, I am happy to share that we have just released Spring Spring Cloud AWS 2.3 - a version that is compatible with Spring Boot 2.4 and Spring Cloud 2020.0.

This release contains a new integration with Cognito and a bunch of small improvements, fixes, and changes that we believe will make working with Spring Cloud AWS more pleasurable.

I believe the most surprising change is that now you need to include a separate Spring Cloud AWS BOM in your pom.xml…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.5 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.5 includes 39 fixes and improvements and covers support for JDK 16 (which is scheduled for GA today), in preparation for JDK 17 LTS in September.

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

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

• Announcing Spring Native Beta!. This is by far the most important bit to come out of the last week! There is SO MUCH good stuff to ponder here. Spring Native is a set of hints that help GraalVM's native-image facility turn your dynamic Java code into a lightning fast, super lightweight, machine architecture-specific binary that you'll definitely want to invite to your next Docker container party. Tons of stuff just works out of the box. Native compilation is even supported on the Spring Initializr - just add Native to the selections! You can use @NativeHint…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.0-M3! You can find the complete details in the release notes and the highlights below:

OAuth 2.0

gh-8975 - Add BearerTokenAuthenticationConverter

SAML

gh-9317 - Add setMetadataFilename method to Saml2MetadataFilter

gh-9310 - Throw Saml2AuthenticationException in Saml2AuthenticationTokenConverter on deflation or decoding error

ACL

gh-9425 - Allow ACL to be owned by GrantedAuthoritySid

Kotlin

gh-9319 - Kotlin DSL extension for rememberMe

Web

gh-9387 - Improve HttpSessionSecurityContextRepository performance

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Deploy Spring Boot applications by leveraging enterprise best practices – Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture. You can get started by deploying the Azure Spring Cloud Reference Architecture to accelerate and secure Spring Boot applications in the cloud at scale using validated best practices.

Over the past year, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios including thoughts on scaling properly, security, deployment, and cost requirements. Many of these customers…

Today, after one year and half of work, I am pleased to announce that we’re launching the beta release of Spring Native and its availability on start.spring.io!

In practice, that means that in addition to the regular Java Virtual Machine supported by Spring since its inception, we are adding beta support for compiling Spring applications to native images with GraalVM in order to provide a new way to deploy Spring applications. Java and Kotlin are supported.

Those native Spring applications can be deployed as a standalone executable (no JVM installation required) and offer interesting…