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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of the 2020.0.2, Neumann-SR6, and Moore-SR12 service releases. These releases pick up Spring Framework 5.3.2 and 5.2.12 and will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot releases. 2020.0.2 ships with 58 tickets fixed, Neumann-SR6 ships with 36 tickets fixed, and, finally, Moore-SR12 ships with 26 tickets fixed.

The releases ship with selected improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades.

Here are the detailed links to each individual artifact and the reference documentation:

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I’d like to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data 2021.0.0 release train. This release ships with over 100 tickets fixed. This Spring Data release is the next release to use calver.

The most notable new features are:

• Support for deleteAllById(Iterable<ID>) in CrudRepository and ReactiveCrudRepository
• Usage of Prepared Statements for CassandraTemplate and repository queries, including index-based parameter bindings
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7.10.0

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a full round of Spring Framework releases.

Spring Framework 5.3.2 includes 54 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.12 includes 18 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.20 includes 14 selected fixes and improvements.

The last maintenance releases for 5.0.x (5.0.20) and 4.3.x (4.3.30) with 12 selected fixes and improvements and 8 selected fixes and improvements respectively are also available today.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases 2.2.12, 2.3.7, and 2.4.1!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we’re already past the first week of the last month of the year? I can’t even believe that it’s already been a week since we last congregated here, for this humble column, let alone almost a year since 2019! What a whirlwind.

We’ve got a ton of stuff to catch up on so let’s get to it!

• 10 Best Java Frameworks to Use in 2020 [Updated]
• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Heinz Kabutz
• How to figure out which Spring Boot versions are compatible with which Spring Cloud versions
• J-Fall Virtual 2020: Josh Long - Keynote: Cloud Native Java, Redux - YouTube
• Micrometer’s RSocket-based Prometheus proxy version 1.3.0 has been released. This upgrades to RSocket 1.1, Spring Boot 2.4, and Java 11 runtime for the proxy container image. It’s also using Paketo buildpacks to build the container now.
• Spring Boot can create a JFR dump
• Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M6 (aka Ilford) Is Available
• Spring Cloud App Broker 1.2.1 released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.6.4 and 2.7.0 Released
• Spring Security 5.4.2, 5.3.6, and 5.2.8 released
• Towards OpenJDK 17
• Welcome to the Reactive Foundation, R2DBC
• What Now to Miss on VMware Cloud on AWS
• What’s new? Differential Datalog.
• what’s new in Apache Maven 4?
• “If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It” – Some Thoughts About Project Health
• I asked: Which version of @Java are you using? Why? and the results are fascinating!
• https://twitter.com/springcloud/status/1334163572058943489 @springcloud Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M6 (aka Ilford) has been released! Would appreciate any feedback on this release before we release our first release candidate early next week! https://t.co/vybA

Hi, Spring fans! In this week’s installment Josh Long talks to his hero, longtime friend (9+ years and counting!), inspiration and a person who has made the JVM a better place to deploy software and the JVM community a better place for people to build software through his JavaSpecialists newsletter and through his amazing content: Dr. Heinz Kabutz. ’Nuff said. Enjoy!

Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.7.0 and 2.6.4

While the release 2.6.4 has the bug fixes, the 2.7.0 has the following updates along with the bug fixes and improvements :

SCDF dashboard re-design using VMware Clarity toolkit

SCDF dashboard is re-designed using VMware Clarity design system. This is a complete rewrite of SCDF dashboard GUI to get the benefits of the Clarity design.

Spring Boot 2.3. Update

SCDF server components are now updated to use Spring Boot 2.3.5 release.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 6 (M6) of the Spring Cloud 2020 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2020 release notes for more information.

This release is compatible with Spring Boot 2.4.0.

Notable Changes in the 2020 Release Train

This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.0.

Please see the wiki for a list of all breaking changes in this release train.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the Github project.

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud App Broker 1.2.1!

Our focus at the start of the 1.2.x release series has been to update our major dependencies, namely Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Open Service Broker. We have also updated and simplified our build and release process. Since the release of 1.1.1, the 1.2.1 release incorporates the following updates:

• Update the Gradle build to make use of new native features for dependency management and publication
• Upgrade to Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.3.6

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It’s been a very fun week since we last spoke. How are you? Can you believe that it’s already the first day of December, 2020? Time sure flies… or something heh. This week is full of cool stuff so let’s get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Swarna Podila on Cloud Foundry, Hashicorp and more
• A Spring Tools Suite office hours
• Cloud Native Buildpacks with Paketo.io & layered jars for Spring Boot
• Developer Toolkit: How to Leverage Reactive Programming with R2DBC Async Java Connector
• If You’re Using Kafka With Your Microservices, You’re Probably Handling Retries Wrong | by Dave Taubler | Nov, 2020 | Medium
• JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes
• Metaspace in OpenJDK 16
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0 Released
• Spring Data 2020.0 - New and Noteworthy in Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.1
• This Week in Spring - November 24th, 2020
• ff4j-samples/spring-boot-2x/ff4j-sample-springboot2x at master · ff4j/ff4j-samples · GitHub
• Using Cassandra? Learn what’s new in #SpringData Cassandra 3.1
• In the Tanzu Developer Center, you can get hands-on training for: 🚀 Agile 🚀 CI/CD 🚀 Containers 🚀 Kubernetes 🚀 Microservices 🚀 Python 🚀 Spring Get started: https:/
• What do Tanzu customers think about the Tanzu Kubernetes Grid? Find out here
• Want to (re)watch an episode of #TGIK8s? You can here
• Want to know what our financial customers think of Tanzu Mission Control? Look no further.
• Have you seen how simple it’s become recently to build @graalvm native images with Spring Boot?
• A library implementing Siren as a custom Spring HATEOAS hypermedia type. Siren is a hypermedia specification for representing entities.
• A reminder that multi cloud is a necessity: prolonged AWS outage takes down a big chunk of the internet - The Verge