On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and VMware GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (SBDG) 1.1.7.RELEASE, 1.2.7.RELEASE and 1.3.0.RC1.

All bits are available in Maven Central with the exception of 1.3.0.RC1, which is available in Spring’s Milestone Repository.

SBDG 1.1.7.RELEASE builds on Spring Boot 2.1.14.RELEASE. SBDG 1.2.7.RELEASE builds on Spring Boot 2.2.7.RELEASE and SBDG 1.3.0.RC1 builds on Spring Boot 2.3.0.RC1.

The easiest way to get started building Spring Boot applications with Apache Geode is by using Spring Initializer at start.spring.io either with Spring Boot 2.2.7 or with Spring Boot 2.3.0…

On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and VMWare GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode and VMware GemFire (SSDG) 2.1.10.RELEASE, 2.2.4.RELEASE and 2.3.0.RELEASE.

All bits are available in Maven Central.

SSDG 2.1.10.RELEASE is aligned with Spring Boot 2.1.14.RELEASE and can be included by declaring a dependency on org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter-session:1.1.7.RELEASE.

SSDG 2.2.4.RELEASE is aligned with Spring Boot 2.2.7.RELEASE and can be included by declaring a dependency on org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter-session:1.2.7.RELEASE…

Spring Data Neumann is the first release to follow the new six-month cadence. The reduced timeframe lets us deliver new features more often, which is key in enabling you to move faster. The release itself ships with a bunch of new stuff and includes important (potentially breaking) upgrades of several store.

Major Version Upgrades

Several store modules, as listed below, required a major version bump due to potentially breaking changes in either their exposed API or their drivers:

• Spring Data JDBC 2.0 (was 1.1 before)
  Here’s the link to the post that explains migration from Spring Data JDBC 1.1 to 2.0.

• Spring Data MongoDB 3.0 (was 2.2 before)

• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.0 (was 2.2 before)

• Spring Data Couchbase 4.0 (was 3.2 before)

• Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.0 (was 3.2 before)
  Learn What’s new in Spring Data Elasticsearch.

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On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 2.3

Dependency upgrades

Spring Boot 2.3 moves to new versions of several Spring projects:

• Spring Data Neumann
• Spring HATEOAS 1.1
• Spring Integration 5.3
• Spring Kafka 2.5
• Spring Security 5.3
• Spring Session Dragonfruit

We’ve…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, VMware’s Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to VMware COO Sanjay Poonen (@spoonen) about app development, Tanzu, Cloud, Networking, and more.

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session Dragonfruit-RELEASE.

The Dragonfruit-RELEASE release is based on:

• Spring Session core modules 2.3.0.RELEASE

• Spring Session Data Geode 2.3.0.RELEASE

• Spring Session Data MongoDB 2.3.0.RELEASE

Additional details of these releases can be found in the release notes.

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Azure Spring Cloud is a new Platform as a Service offering for Microservices apps. It is a fully managed service jointly built, operated, and supported by VMware and Microsoft to simplify spring boot based microservices development and management. In this blog, we will walk through how you can accelerate your development with Azure Spring Cloud and IntelliJ IDEA.

Requirements

You will need a few things prepared before following the upcoming sections:

• IntelliJ IDEA, Community/Ultimate Edition, version 2020.1/2019.3 installed

• An Azure Account - click here to create a free trial account

• Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ installed and signed-in

• An Azure Spring Cloud instance provisioned

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We have released Spring Security 5.3.2, 5.2.4, 5.1.10, 5.0.16 and 4.2.16 to address the following CVE reports:

• CVE-2020-5407: Signature Wrapping Vulnerability with spring-security-saml2-service-provider
• CVE-2020-5408: Dictionary attack with Spring Security queryable text encryptor

Please review the information in the CVE report and upgrade immediately.

Spring Boot users should upgrade to 2.2.7 or 2.1.14.

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and many contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data Neumann is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central! This release ships with over 650 features, bugfixes and improvements containing numerous major version and driver upgrades.

This very tightly curated overview summarizes the most significant changes:

• Repository support for Kotlin Coroutines.
• Upgrade to MongoDB Driver 4.
• Upgrade to Cassandra Driver 4.
• Upgrade to Couchbase SDK 3
• Upgrade to Querydsl 4.3
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7 and fully revise Template API for consistent Elasticsearch usage.
• Inclusion of Spring Data R2DBC into the release train.
• Merge of Spring Data for Apache Geode and Spring Data GemFire into a single Spring Data Geode module.
• Joda-Time and ThreeTenBackport support deprecated.
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