On behalf of the community, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Security 5.5. This release is the result of the work that went into 5.5.0-M1, 5.5.0-M2, 5.5.0-M3, 5.5.0-RC1, 5.5.0-RC2 and 5.5.0. In combination, they close 250+ tickets.

You can find the highlights of 5.5 in the What’s new section of the Spring Security reference.

As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback!

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of great stuff to get to, and I'm otherwise on vacation (though you can still expect a new episode of A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast), as usual) for this week, so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Axon Framework Founder Allard Buijze on CQRS, Sagas, and more
• A cool video demonstrating Spring Native
• Automate Spring Boot application deployments to Azure!
• Blog: Using Finalizers to Control Deletion
• Check out the latest version of the HAL explorer
• Check out the recording of my talk with Julien Dubois, and Rory Preddy
• Live Webinar - From MVC to Reactive - Registration
• Modern Web Development - DZone Trend Report
• Move out workshops generation · Issue #249 · spring-cloud-samples/spring-cloud-contract-samples · GitHub
• Spring AMQP 2.2.17.RELEAE & 2.3.7 available
• …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring AMQP 2.3.7 and 2.2.17.RELEASE are available now.

Both versions have some number of bug fixes and minor improvements together with upgrades to the latest minor dependencies. See their release notes for more information:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-amqp/releases/tag/v2.2.17.RELEASE https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-amqp/releases/tag/v2.3.7

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

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 2.5.13.RELEASE, 2.6.8 and 2.7.1 are available now.

All versions have some number of bug fixes and minor improvements, especially additions to recently introduced Topic Delayed Non-Blocking Retry. Big thanks to Tomaz Fernandes for amazing contributions in this area!

See their release notes for more information:

https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v2.5.13.RELEASE https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-kafka/releases/tag/v2.6.8 https://github.com/spring…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data service releases 2021.0.1 and 2020.0.9.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.7. For your convenience, these releases can be consumed through Spring Boot 2.5.0 respective 2.4.6.

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:

2021.0.1

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.3.4! This release fixes including a fix where Spring LDAP breaks on JDK9+.

You can find the complete details in the release notes.

Hi, Spring fans! We wrapped up the epic SpringOne Tour installment for May a couple of days ago. Here's the Day 1 recording - Booternetes II: The YAML Strikes Back - featuring yours truly, Mark Heckler, Mario Gray, David Turanski, Tiffany Jernigan, Chris Sterling, and special guest star, Kubernetes cofounder, Joe Beda.

This edition pulls together a lot of different Spring ecosystem technologies, showing projects that you might use to more fully exploit the power of Kubernetes. Enjoy!

Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of the Azure Pipeline Task for deploying Spring Boot applications to Azure Spring Cloud. You can get started by building your pipelines using the Azure Spring Cloud task to automate Spring Boot application deployments to any number of environments and Azure Regions.

Over the past 18 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios including thoughts on automating end-to-end from idea to provisioning Azure resources to building Spring Boot applications to deploying those applications to production. Many of these…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Axon founder Allard Buijze (@allardbz) about AxonIQ (@axoniq), the Axon framework, architecture patterns like CQRS and Sagas, and more.