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.
…

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…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.0.6 and 2020.0.14 service releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.11. For your convenience, you can consume Spring Data 2021.0.6 and 2020.0.14 through the upcoming Spring Boot releases 2.5.6 and 2.4.12, respectively.

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

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

2021.0.6

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to teammate, .NET ecosystem legend and awesome human being Layla (@LaylaCodesIt).

Update (2021-10-26): These releases contain fixes 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 5.3.11 and 5.2.18 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.11 includes 32 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.18 includes 10 selected fixes and improvements.

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

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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the little-known, often-used Spring Plugin project, which supports the strategy pattern

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring where we recap - with apologies to The Times - all the news that's fit to reprint in the Spring and Spring-adjacent ecosystems. First: it's almost Halloween! Can you believe it?? This year has absolutely flown by! I need to dust off my PHP costume for Halloween. Maybe I'll even start using this particularly ghastly VS Code theme on the day...

Anyway, it's been a busy week for me already and we're only at the very beginning of Tuesday! I've been attending Kubecon (virtually), I spoke at the online I Code Java event at…