On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.4 and 5.2.13 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.4 includes 62 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.13 includes 18 selected fixes and improvements.

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

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On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of the Spring Vault service release 2.3.1.

This release ships with mostly bugfixes, dependency upgrades, and selected features.

For a complete list of changes, see the 2.3.1 changelog.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week is fixing to be a really fun one!

I'll be speaking at the Seattle JUG tonight. It's free, online, virtual, etc. Join us, won't you?

I'll also be speaking at the legendary Devnexus event this week. Do not miss that. Or the show. It's free, being held virtually, online, and a ton of us from the Spring team will be there.

We've got a lot of good stuff to get to this week so let's dive in!

• My buddy, the amazing and inestimable, Tanzu observability engineer Tommy Ludwig, and I wrote a little blog, Metrics and Tracing: Better Together. It's chock full of Tommy's brilliance and my terrible terrible puns. Don't miss it!
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Doordash tech lead manager Zohaib Sibte Hassan on Spring Boot, Kotlin, GRPC, and more
• An Open Source Approach to Decentralized Transactions
• This looks cool: a way to inspect RSocket frames from within Chrome
• Musings on Supply Chain Security
• Paving the Road to Modern Apps, by VMware Tanzu
• Philip Riecks has an interesting new tutorial, Testing Spring Boot Applications Masterclass…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Doordash tech lead manager Zohaib Sibte Hassan (@zohaibility) about Spring Boot, Kotlin, GRPC, organizational scalability, and more at Doordash.

• the Doordash Engineering blog
• A GRPC Spring Boot Starter
• the Gitter chat for R2DBC
• Zohaib on LinkedIn

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.4.4 (release notes), 5.3.8 (release notes), and 5.2.9 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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NOTE: There was an issue releasing 5.4.3 and 5.3.7 which caused us to need to release 5.4.4 and 5.3.8.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 0.1.0.

You can download it from repo.spring.io and Maven Central by using the module coordinates:

compile 'org.springframework.security.experimental:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:0.1.0'

For additional details on this new project, see the initial announcement and project page.

The main features delivered in this release are:

• OpenID Connect Core 1.0 — Authorization Code Flow

• OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 — OpenID Provider Configuration

• JSON Web Token (JWT) headers and claims customizer

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 10 (SR10) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. Hoxton.SR10 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x.

Fix for CVE-2021-22113

This release contains the fix for CVE-2021-22113. Please find the report here.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Random algorithm added for Spring Cloud LoadBalancer
• Sticky implementation added for Spring Cloud LoadBalancer
• Backported standalone RetryableLoadBalancerExchangeFilterFunction
• Added the possibility to refetch the instances for health-check in Spring Cloud LoadBalancer
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This blog post was co-authored by our very own, always excited about all things Spring, Josh Long.

You've decided to put your talents to work in the service of humanity and - in the age of the pandemic, and having no other real skills to speak of besides software - you're going to build a web service that people can check for the availability of the highly vaunted Playstation 5 video game console, on your new website, www.ps5ownersarebetterpeople.com.net.

It All Started so Auspiciously...

Go to the trusty Spring Initializr and generate a new project (called service) using the latest version of Java ( natch! ) and add the Reactive Web, Wavefront, Lombok, Sleuth, and Actuator dependencies to the project. Click the Generate button to download a .zip…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

I'm just about to give a 2h presentation for the OOP conference. It's live. It'll be fun. Join us?

How've you been? You realize it's already the second week of February? Chinese New Year, a holiday celebrated by more than two billion people, begins on the 12th of February. So, seeing as how we won't get to talk again until after, let me wish everyone who celebrates: 新年快乐!

• A Bootiful Podcast: RSocket legend and new Reactor team member Oleh Dokuka
• Alibaba's Jacky Chan has put together an awesome project that does client-side load balancing with Spring Cloud, but based on RSocket - very convenient!
• Demystifying Spring Cloud Stream producers with Apache Kafka partitions
• 2021: A Look Ahead for Open Source at VMware
• A New Yeoman code generator for Spring Boot (that isn't the amazing JHipster?). Looks interesting...
• A Spring Boot REST API powered by Redis, part 2
• A Spring Boot starter for the Doma mapping framework
• A great blog, Handle R2DBC in Spring Projects…