Hi, Spring fans! How're y'all doing? Can you believe we're almost halfway through this crazy little thing called 2021? Time sure flies when you're having fun! This week was no exception. I joined the my buddy Matt Raible and Brian Demeers today for the OktaDev Twitch channel and we hacked on making the Spring Boot starter for Okta work with Spring Native. The goal is that you should be able to bring your application unchanged with Spring Native, and this is yet another example of that working. We didn't know what issues we were going to face, but we managed to figure out the relatively minor…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data service 2021.0.2 and 2020.0.10 releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.8. For your convenience, you can consumer these releases through Spring Boot 2.5.2 and 2.4.8, respectively.

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

To round things off, here are the links to the artifacts, changelogs, and documentation:

2021.0.2

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.1 (release notes), 5.4.7 (release notes), 5.3.10 (release notes), and 5.2.11 (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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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.11.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2021-06 release (including support for Java 16) (new and noteworthy)
• early-access builds for Apple Silicon platform (ARM M1) available

reminder

• the Eclipse-based distribution of the Spring Tools 4 requires a JDK11 (or newer) to run on
• the Eclipse-based distribution ships with an embedded JDK16 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Azure Developer Advocate Rory Preddy (@rorypreddy).

Hi, Spring fans! How're you doing? I'm silly stoked! This week saw the release of Spring Native 0.10.0 and it is awesome! You absolutely have to check this release out. I put together an episode of Spring Tips, the most comprehensive of its kind, introducing (almost) everything you'll need to know about Spring Native and Spring Native 0.10.0 in particular. Start here. Spring Native is awesome and this is the comprehensive introduction I wish I'd had at the start.

The next time we meet in this humble column, next week, will be June 22nd, and by then we'll have passed summer solstice - the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Native 0.10.0 has been released. It is based on Spring Boot 2.5 and GraalVM 21.1.

This release is packed with features, highlights include:

• Introduction of native testing.

• A new official Gradle plugin from the GraalVM team.

• Introduction of ahead-of-time proxies usable on classes.

It also includes 43 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Josh Long has crafted a great video to present those new…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Mikiel Agutu, technical lead for the Flyway team at Redgate software about database migrations and continuous delivery.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes about 70 bug fixes, documentation improvements, 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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