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 - …

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I hope you're doing well. You know, I've been thinking a lot about how to retain that zen-like peace that comes with a vacation spent on the beach. I got back from Hawaii eight days ago and I found it to be so very beautiful. Nature really sold it for me; the fresh air is everything. If you don't have ready access to nature - if you, like me, are in a giant city with the ongoing sound of car horns ("klaxons"), fire engines, traffic, and everything else that accompanies any big city - then may I invite you to breathe with me?

Just sit still for 30 seconds…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Microsoft's Sean Li on Azure, Spring Boot, Azure Spring Cloud, Spring integrations and more.

Hi, Spring fans! Redis is the swiss-army knife of databases and it integrates into Spring-based workloads with ease. In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) and special guest star Brian Sam-Bodden (@bsbodden) look at just a few of the bootiful possibilities for Redis and Spring Boot.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe it's already August, 2021! We're nearly to 2022! And I am, for better or for worse, back from vacation! I am so happy to be back, but I do miss the sunkissed beaches of Hawai'i. Sigh. Anyway, let's get into it! We've got a ton of things to get into, so without further ado...

• A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft's Asir V. Selvasingh on Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Microsoft Azure, and Azure Spring Cloud
• Blog: Roorkee robots, releases and racing: the Kubernetes 1.21 release interview
• Join Pure Storage at VMworld 2021
• Cassandre is an open-source framework that makes it easy to create your crypto trading bot in Java. Our Spring boot starter takes care of exchange connections, accounts, orders, trades, and positions so you can focus
• Check out this Spring Security Authorization Server example
• Join Confluent Developer advocate Viktor Gamov for this look at …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud 2021 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2021 release notes for more information.

This release is compatible with Spring Boot 2.6.0-M1.

The GitHub Project for this release can be found here.

Notable Changes in the 2021 Release Train

Spring Cloud Gateway

• StripPrefixFilter now defaults to 1 instead of 0 #2033
• Add new CacheRequestBodyFilter #1943
• Share Routes across Gateway instances with Redis #1390

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Added JDBC support #1930
• Instruments Tomcat Valve #1329
• Support for Spring Vault #1952
• Automatic tag table generation documentation #1950
• Spring Cloud Deployer support #1947
• Spring Cloud Skipper support #1927
• R2DBC support #1524
• Support for Reactor Kafka #1708
• Spring TX instrumentation #1941
• Spring Batch support #1904
• RSocket instrumentation #1677
• Support for Spring Cloud Task #1903
• Spring Cloud Config instrumentation #1915
• Added support for Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker Reactive #1910
• Added support for Kotlin Coroutines #1737
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Aloha, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Microsoft's Asir V. Selvasingh (@asirselvasingh) about Azure Spring Cloud, Spring Boot, Microsoft Azure and more.

Aloha, Spring fans, from the beautiful island of Oahu, Hawaii. How're you doing? We've got a ton of stuff to look at so let's get to it!

• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to industry analyst, fascinating person, strategist, and storyteller Michael Coté
• I love this look at building a first application with RabbitMQ streams
• I loved this infographic by Dormain Drewitz on modernizing the mainframe
• Premiering Now: SpringOne Tour - July 2021: Do or Do Not, There is no try{} in Production
• Spring Boot 2.4.9 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.5.3 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.6.0-M1 is now available
• Spring Data is a 10 years old today the 23rd of July 2021!
• This Week in Spring - July 20th, 2021
• …