Hi, Spring fans! It's 6 am Tuesday, January 21st, 2020, and I'm buckled in and ready to take off for Atlanta, Georgia (by way of Denver, Colorado...), where I'll be speaking at the Atlanta Java User Group tonight! I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone there. It's my first JUG appearance in the new year, too!

So, let's get to it!

• Spring Boot 2.2.4 released
• Spring Vault 2.2.1.RELEASE and 2.1.5.RELEASE available
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Spring Cloud Services' Bella (Yuxin) Bai
• Spring Boot 2.2.3 released
• Spring Boot 2.1.12 released
• Spring Framework 5.2.3, 5.1.13, 5.0.16, and 4.3.26 releases
• Spring Data Neumann M1 released
• Spring Data Moore SR4 and Lovelace SR15 released
• This is an interesting post on two of my favorite pieces of cloud infrastructure: Running Cloud Foundry on Kubernetes using KubeCF
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.4 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 6 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades and was released shortly after Spring Boot 2.2.3 to work around a dependency resolution problem with Gradle 5.3 to 5.6.

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…

On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of Spring Vault releases 2.2.1.RELEASE and 2.1.5.RELEASE.

Both releases ship with mostly bugfixes and dependency upgrades. Spring Vault 2.2.1.RELEASE ships also support to disable authentication and session management so it can be used with Vault Agent’s cached authentication.

For a complete list of changes, see the 2.2.1.RELEASE changelog respective 2.1.5.RELEASE changelog.

With this release, we’d also like to announce that Spring Vault 2.1.x is going to end of life in November 2020. We encourage all users to upgrade to the latest release of the 2.2.x line. You can find more details about the supported versions on our versions overview…

Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud Services teammate Bella (Yuxin) Bai.

After unfavorable weather on Maven central caused service disruption much of today, skies have finally cleared up, and I am pleased to announce a full round of Spring Framework releases: the 5.2.3 release on the current production branch, along with maintenance branch releases 5.1.13, 5.0.16, and 4.3.26 with selected backports.

Please note that the 5.0.x and 4.3.x lines have reached the end of active maintenance, with just one final wrap-up release expected on each branch before the official EOL date at the end of this year. The 5.1.x line remains active but will be updated less frequently (~ once a quarter) than the 5.2.x line (~ every six weeks) throughout 2020. For more details, please check the 2020 Roadmap…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.12 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Important Security Advisory:

This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Spring Framework 5.1.13 which contains a fix for CVE-2020-5398.

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…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m happy to announce the first milestone of the Neumann release train. This release ships over 260 tickets fixed. The Neumann release train is planned to ship major driver upgrades. This initial milestone covers all of our major version increments and ships driver upgrades to Elasticsearch 7 and the DataStax Java driver 4.3 for Apache Cassandra.

The most important new features are:

• Repository support for Kotlin Coroutines.
• Upgrade to Cassandra Driver 4.
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7.
• Major refactoring of the Spring Data Elasticsearch Template API. Reactive client based on WebClient and reactive repository support.
• Upgrade to Solr 8.4.
• Upgrade to Geode 1.10.
• Support for fully immutable types (setting properties via copy constructors).
• Spring Data R2DBC is part of the Spring Data release train.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.3 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 75 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Important Security Advisory:

This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Spring Framework 5.2.3 which contains fixes for CVE-2020-5398 and CVE-2020-5397.

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…

On behalf of the community, I'd like to announce that that Spring Data Moore SR4 and Lovelace SR15 are available now.

Moore SR4 ships with 59 tickets fixed and Lovelace SR15 ships with 34 tickets fixed. Both releases contain mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. Moore SR4 is built on top of the recently released Spring Framework 5.2.3 and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.2.3 for easier consumption. Similarly, Lovelace SR15 uses Spring Framework 5.1.13 and will be included by Spring Boot 2.1.12 in the coming days.

Finally, here are links to the reference documentation, changelogs, and…