On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.13 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 19 bug fixes and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.8 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 35 bug fixes and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

Do your users want a convenient, bite-sized way to customize the behavior of your application? Expression Languages are…

I almost wrote in 2020! There's been so much going on I almost forgot to take stock of the year. What a rush. We better get to the roundup before I somehow lose even more track of time. So, without further ado, this week's roundup.

• Spring Framework 5.3.3 is now available
• I posted another installment of You May Not Need a Library For That, this one looking at the fabulous WebClient
• Spring Data's Migration from Jira to GitHub Issues
• In last week's installment of a Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Netty founder Trustin Lee
• In last week's installment of You May Not Need a Library For That, I looked at reactive dataflow with project Reactor
• A useful sheet full of information about GraalVM
• Oliver Drotbohm's collection of tiny helpers for building Spring applications
• This is very cool: Ruchi Saini wrote a pretty long introduction on how to build …

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce a Spring Data double release 2020.0.3 and 2021.0-M2. The releases include fixes for projection interfaces, vavr integration, time value precision and 3rd party library upgrades. Make sure to check out out individual change logs.

The service release will be picked up by upcoming Spring Boot 2.4.2.

2020.0.3

• Spring Data Commons 2.4.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.1.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.4.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.1.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.1.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.4.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.0.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.4.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Whether you are building a web API, mobile front end or a good-old fashioned desktop application, identity and access management will always be foundational pieces that are front and center in writing software. Azure offers a great platform to democratize your application development journey, as it not only offers a cloud-base identity service, but also deep integration with the rest of the Azure ecosystem. Spring Security has made it easy to secure your Spring based applications with powerful abstractions and extensible interfaces. However as powerful as the Spring framework can be, it is not…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.3 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.3 includes 40 fixes and improvements.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Welcome to another installment of You May Not Need Another Library For That (YMNNALFT)! I've spent a lot of time since 2016 illuminating (or trying to, anyway!) some of the more enormous opportunities in the Spring ecosystem in my Spring Tips videos. Today, however, I come to you in a different spirit, wanting to focus on the little, sometimes hidden, gems that do fantastic things and that might spare you an additional third-party dependency and its implied complexity.

Today we're going to look at an all-in-one, handy dandy HTTP client, the WebClient.

HTTP services are a common source of data…

Spring Data has migrated its entire history of issues from Jira to GitHub. The goal of this blog post is to give you context and details about this migration.

Migration Details

Spring Data issues have been managed for over ten years in Jira. Today, every issue and every comment has been imported into GitHub. There is a lot to consider in such a move, so let's take a tour and go over some details.

Spring Data consists of 19 individual projects, each one of which is associated with its own issue tracker namespace. Four projects (Spring Data Build, BOM, Envers, and R2DBC) have been using GitHub…