Update (2021-10-26): Multiple Spring projects included in this release contain fixes for security issues. Please, read the related announcement.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 43 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…

Update (2021-10-26): Multiple Spring projects included in this release contain fixes for security issues. Please, read the related announcement.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 36 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…

Update (2021-10-26): This release contains a fix for a security issue. Please, read the related announcement.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.12 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.12 is a follow-up of the recent 5.3.11 release fixing 2 regressions in time for the Spring Boot releases.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll look at fully refreshable configuration using the Spring Cloud Config Server, Spring Cloud Bus, and Spring Cloud Config Monitor.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 3 (M3) of the Spring Cloud 2021 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2021 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021 Release Train

Milestone 3 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.6.0-M3.

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Added initial support for gRPC #2388

Spring Cloud Function

• Aside form various enhancements and bug fixes this milestone of Spring Cloud Function introduces initial support for gRPC.
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud Square 0.4.0 is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 0.4.0-M2 release notes for more information.

See all issues included in this release here.

Notable Changes in 0.4.0-M2

• Spring Native support adjustments for non-load-balanced use-cases (PR)
• Support for configuring different WebClient.Builder beans (not shared) for each @RetrofitClient instance (PR)

The documentation for this milestone can be found here.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? Good? Keepin' busy? Good. I'm doing alright, too.

• Last week, I did a sort of smörgåsbord episode of Tanzu Code on twitch.tv/vmwaretanzu. It was super fun! I stream on VMWare Tanzu as well as on my own Twitch channel, twitch.tv/JavaJoshLong about all things Spring, Java, and more.
• In last week's super short-and-to-the-point installment of Spring Tips, I looked at the Spring Plugin project
• I also put out This Month in Spring - a newsletter digest version of this very weekly roundup that comes out every... month. Naturally.
• Did you see this? Twitter is now using graphql-java, the very same project that underpins the Spring GraphQL project, for their APIs and they're reporting incredible performance gains! …

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and everyone who contributed, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2021.1.0 has entered its release candidate phase by releasing RC1 today. It is available from the milestone repository. This release ships with several tickets fixed. The most notable changes are:

• Deprecate support for RxJava 2 in preparation for removal of RxJava 2 support with Spring Data 3.0.
• Fluent Query API for Querydsl and Query-by-Example, allowing for projections, pagination, and consuming results as a Stream.
• Spring Data JDBC ships with a refined SQL DSL, accepting complex JOIN conditions and subselects.
• Support for exists and not empty keywords in Elasticsearch repository query methods and support for field exclusion in source.
• Improve mapping performance for custom queries and paths in Neo4j and support for ReactiveQuerydslPredicateExecutor.
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This is the third article of a series about how to tackle various challenges you might encounter when using Spring Data JDBC.

The series consists of

1. Spring Data JDBC - How to use custom ID generation.

2. Spring Data JDBC - How do I make bidirectional relationships?

3. Spring Data JDBC - How do I implement caching? (this article).

4. Spring Data JDBC - How Can I Do a Partial Update of an Aggregate Root?

5. Spring Data JDBC - How do I Generate the Schema for my Domain Model?

If you are new to Spring Data JDBC, you should start by reading its introduction and this article, which explains the relevance of aggregates in the context of Spring Data JDBC…