On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce a Spring Data release triple feature: Neumann SR5, Moore SR11, and Lovelace SR21. These service releases are built on top of Spring Framework releases 5.2.10 (Neumann and Moore) and 5.1.19 (Lovelace) and ship with mostly dependency upgrades and fixes, along with a few selected improvements.

Spring Data Neumann SR5 contains 67 improvements and fixes. Spring Data Moore SR11 ships with 43 fixes and improvements. Finally, Spring Data Lovelace SR21 includes 17 selected fixes.

All service releases will be picked up by the upcoming Spring Boot 2.3.5, 2.2.11, and 2.1.18 releases (respectively), for…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and our contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2020.0.0 is generally available from Maven Central.

Spring Data 2020.0.0 (Codename: Ockham) is the first release train using the changed versioning scheme, previous release trains were identified by name, such as Neumann-RELEASE.

This release train includes several themes. Here's a summary of the most important ones:

• Switch Release Train version to calver (2020.0.0) and introduce spring-data-bom artifact.
• Improve Graal Native Image experience.
• Reactive SpEL context extensions and auditing support.
• Include SDN-RX as Spring Data Neo4j 6.0.
• Oracle dialect for Spring Data JDBC.
• Refactor Spring Data R2DBC on top of Spring Framework’s R2DBC module.
• Upgrade to Redis 6.0 including support ACL authentication and enhanced support for Sorted Set commands.
• Support for RxJava 3.
• De-lombok production code.
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Dear Spring Batch community,

On behalf of the team and all contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Batch 4.3 is now generally available from Maven Central!

This release comes with a number of new features, enhancements, and dependency updates. You can find the complete list of changes in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

• Java records support
• GraalVM support
• New synchronized ItemStreamWriter
• New JpaCursorItemReader Implementation
• Performance improvements in MongoItemWriter and RepositoryItemWriter
• And more!

These features and enhancements have been…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Framework team and our contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.3 is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central!

• What's New in Spring Framework 5.3
• Upgrading to Spring Framework 5.3

Spring Framework 5.3 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically embraces JDK 15 as the latest OpenJDK release, e.g. with binding support for record classes. As the last feature branch of the 5.x generation, the 5.3.x line is set up for an extended support phase, including JDK 17 LTS next year.

The immediate Spring Boot 2.4 and next year's Spring Boot 2.5 release will be based on this framework generation, as well as the incubating support for Spring native executables on GraalVM…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.2.10 and 5.1.19 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.2.10 includes 27 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.19 includes 16 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for Spring Framework 5.3 GA and follow-up Spring Boot releases 2.1.18, 2.2.11, 2.3.5, and 2.4.0-RC1!

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.8.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

quick reminder

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

additional changes and fixes

• (Spring Boot) new: Added support for Spring Boot multi-document properties files (#533)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Support escaping of map keys with '[]' in Spring Boot property yaml files
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Tolerate '.[' for map navigation in .properties file
• (Eclipse) improvement: support container image creation and container deployment of Spring Boot apps without maven wrapper
• (Eclipse) improvement: better process label for live hovers from boot apps running in docker
• (Eclipse) improvement: allow docker-deployed boot apps to find each other (via simple network setup inside of docker)
• (Eclipse)…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already nearly November in this crazy rollercoaster ride that is 2020. Crazy.

We've got a ton of stuff to get to so let's waste not a second more.

• Spring Framework 5.3 goes GA This is a huge release, and the most important thing we'll look at today. Go read this post first. This release includes a ton of new features!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Optic CEO Aidan Cunniffe on OpenAPI, contract testing, and so much more
• I loved this case study that talks about how VMware (my employer) uses Kotlin Case Studies: VMware - Kotlin Multiplatform Mobile
• Case Study: Aggregator Function and Processor
• Check out my DevFest Romania presentation - Bootiful Kotlin
• The Maven Daemon is kind of like the Gradle deamon in that its a long-running process (but one compiled using GraalVM) that can greatly speed-up the use of Apache Maven…

This article is part of a blog series that explores the newly redesigned Spring Cloud Stream applications based on Java Functions. In this episode, we are investigating the Aggregator function and its relationship with the Splitter function. We will see how we can customize the default behavior. We will also take a look at the importance of configuring a shared message store for the aggregator.

Here are all the previous parts of this blog series.

• Introducing Function Based Streaming Applications

• Function Composition with Streaming Applications

• How to Build a Supplier and Source Application

• How to Build a Consumer and Sink Application

• Build and Run a Simple Stream Application

• Case Study: HTTP Request Function and Processor

• Case Study: File Source and MongoDB Sink

• Case Study: Relational Database Source and File Sink

• Case Study: Remote File Ingest with Spring Cloud Data Flow

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Optic (@UseOptic) CEO Aidan Cunniffe (@aidandcunniffe) about OpenAPI, contract testing, and so much more

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