Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it's nearly December 2021? I'm still getting used to the idea that we're already in 2021 and now the year's nearly behind us! Stop the world, I want off! Time's flying.

I've been up to my eyeballs in Spring Tips video production. I can't wait for you to see tomorrow's installment (@SpringTipsLive)!

We've also got some great podcast interviews lined up. As always, new episodes drop on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc., every Thursday night (California time)/Friday (for most of the world). Don't miss it (@BootifulPodcast)!

You could also just check out my blog (joshlong.com) for the upcoming appearances, podcasts, Spring Tips videos, etc. The trouble is that the blog is otherwise pretty boring. My boring content notwithstanding, it's a plain l'il page on the internet, and I've been wanting to mix it up…

On behalf of the community, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Security 5.6. This release is the result of the work that went into 5.6.0-M1, 5.6.0-M2, 5.6.0-M3, 5.6.0-RC1, and 5.6.0.

You can find the highlights of 5.6 in the What’s new section of the Spring Security reference.

As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback!

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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.1.0.

These are the most important changes:

• Upgrade to Querydsl 5.0
• Support jMolecules' @Identity Annotation for Identifiers
• Fluent Query API for Querydsl and Query-by-Example
• Deprecated RxJava 2 Support
• MongoDB @DocumentReference, schema derivation for encrypted fields, and MongoDB 5.0 Time Series support
• Redis 6.2 support
• Support for streaming large result sets in Spring Data JDBC, Projections, and SQL Builder refinements around conditions, JOINs, and SELECT projections
• Support for Impersonation and support for Querydsl in Neo4j
…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.0.7 and 2020.0.15 service releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.13. For your convenience, you can consume Spring Data 2021.0.7 and 2020.0.15 through the upcoming Spring Boot releases, 2.5.7 and 2.4.13, respectively.

2020.0.x reached its end of life and will no longer be part of regular OSS releases. If you are still on this version, please consider upgrading at your earliest convenience.

Both service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

To round things off…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Apache Artemis and messaging legend Clebert Suconic (@clebertsuconic). Check out ArtemisCloud.io for easy Kubernetes deployments of Apache Artemis.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.13 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.13 includes 16 fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases next week.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment, I wanted to share with you the keynote that Google's James Ward (@_JamesWard) and I put together for the recent Reactive Summit 2021 event, titled: "Reactive, Here and There."

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I'm doing alright! It's been raining cats and dogs here in San Francisco. California, the state where I live, dearly needs the rain, so it's a positive, I suppose. But it still feels miserable. Between the daylights savings time shortening the daylight significantly and the rain, it's a gloomy kind of day. At least there's a lot of good stuff to read! Let's dive right into it!

• Bootiful Podcast: Legend, Dutchess founder, Devoxx4Kids contributor, and fellow Java Champion Linda van der Pal
• Full Stack Java with React, Spring Boot, and JHipster
• Hello, Coherence — Bootiful Spring by Oracle's Gunnar Hillert, a legend.
• Check out the videos from the recent Reactive Summit. I was the emcee and the day two keynoter, along with my friend and Google's James Ward.
• Running Spring Boot Apps? Start Tracing with OpenTelemetry in Minutes!
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.0-RC1 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.8.4 and 2.9.1 Released
• …

In May 2020, we announced that the Spring Security OAuth (legacy) project will reach end-of-life in May 2022. The same end-of-life timeline applies to the Spring Boot 2 auto-configuration project.

We are now 6 months away from the EOL date, and the currently supported version branch is 2.5.x, which is limited to security fixes only.

We recently announced the release of Spring Authorization Server 0.2.0, which is the first officially supported production-ready version backed by our new support policy.

We encourage users to migrate their applications to Spring Authorization Server 0.2.0, as it…