On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and VMware GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (SBDG) 1.1.7.RELEASE, 1.2.7.RELEASE and 1.3.0.RC1.

All bits are available in Maven Central with the exception of 1.3.0.RC1, which is available in Spring’s Milestone Repository.

SBDG 1.1.7.RELEASE builds on Spring Boot 2.1.14.RELEASE. SBDG 1.2.7.RELEASE builds on Spring Boot 2.2.7.RELEASE and SBDG 1.3.0.RC1 builds on Spring Boot 2.3.0.RC1.

The easiest way to get started building Spring Boot applications with Apache Geode is by using Spring Initializer at start.spring.io either with Spring Boot 2.2.7 or with Spring Boot 2.3.0…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a wonderful, bootiful week it's been! This last week saw the long-awaited release of Spring Boot 2.3.0!

There are a lot of wonderful features in this release including, but not limited to, Java 14 support, Docker image generation, graceful shutdown, liveliness probes, upgrades to Spring Data Neumann, and so much more. Here are some resources on some of those features. And, also, check out the blog.

• R2DBC support (see this Spring Tips installment on using R2DBC
• Docker container image support. See this blog on Docker image generation
• Java 14 support. See this Spring Tips installment on Java 14
• This is also the version to use if you want to consume the Graal Native Image builder feature. Here's a Spring Tips video on that, too.
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Spring Data Neumann is the first release to follow the new six-month cadence. The reduced timeframe lets us deliver new features more often, which is key in enabling you to move faster. The release itself ships with a bunch of new stuff and includes important (potentially breaking) upgrades of several store.

Major Version Upgrades

Several store modules, as listed below, required a major version bump due to potentially breaking changes in either their exposed API or their drivers:

• Spring Data JDBC 2.0 (was 1.1 before)
  Here’s the link to the post that explains migration from Spring Data JDBC 1.1 to 2.0.

• Spring Data MongoDB 3.0 (was 2.2 before)

• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.0 (was 2.2 before)

• Spring Data Couchbase 4.0 (was 3.2 before)

• Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.0 (was 3.2 before)
  Learn What’s new in Spring Data Elasticsearch.

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On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 2.3

Dependency upgrades

Spring Boot 2.3 moves to new versions of several Spring projects:

• Spring Data Neumann
• Spring HATEOAS 1.1
• Spring Integration 5.3
• Spring Kafka 2.5
• Spring Security 5.3
• Spring Session Dragonfruit

We’ve…

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session Dragonfruit-RELEASE.

The Dragonfruit-RELEASE release is based on:

• Spring Session core modules 2.3.0.RELEASE

• Spring Session Data Geode 2.3.0.RELEASE

• Spring Session Data MongoDB 2.3.0.RELEASE

Additional details of these releases can be found in the release notes.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, VMware’s Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to VMware COO Sanjay Poonen (@spoonen) about app development, Tanzu, Cloud, Networking, and more.

Azure Spring Cloud is a new Platform as a Service offering for Microservices apps. It is a fully managed service jointly built, operated, and supported by VMware and Microsoft to simplify spring boot based microservices development and management. In this blog, we will walk through how you can accelerate your development with Azure Spring Cloud and IntelliJ IDEA.

Requirements

You will need a few things prepared before following the upcoming sections:

• IntelliJ IDEA, Community/Ultimate Edition, version 2020.1/2019.3 installed

• An Azure Account - click here to create a free trial account

• Azure Toolkit for IntelliJ installed and signed-in

• An Azure Spring Cloud instance provisioned

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We have released Spring Security 5.3.2, 5.2.4, 5.1.10, 5.0.16 and 4.2.16 to address the following CVE reports:

• CVE-2020-5407: Signature Wrapping Vulnerability with spring-security-saml2-service-provider
• CVE-2020-5408: Dictionary attack with Spring Security queryable text encryptor

Please review the information in the CVE report and upgrade immediately.

Spring Boot users should upgrade to 2.2.7 or 2.1.14.

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If you've been following my series on RSocket, you've heard me refer to "clients and servers" many times. But, with RSocket, the line between client and server is blurry. With Rsocket, servers can send messages to clients, and clients can respond to these requests in the same way a server would.

In fact, the RSocket docs don't use the terms 'client' or 'server.' The docs use the terms 'requester' and 'responder' instead. In RSocket, any component can act as a requester, and any component can act as a responder or even both at the…