On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2023.0.5, 2022.0.11, and 2021.2.17 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes and improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases 3.1.5, respective 3.0.12 and 2.7.17 will pick up the above releases by next week.

We expect the next set of Spring Data maintenance releases to ship in mid-November, along with the new and exciting 3.2 we have been working on the last few months.

2023.0.5

• Spring Data Commons 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.1.5 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Spring Shell 3.2.0-M2 is now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 3.2.0-M2 is now available from Spring repos.

This release is adding first experimental support for Terminal UI as shown in a below screencast:

Please see the release notes 3.2.0-M2 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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It is my pleasure to announce that a feature-complete Spring Data 2023.1 release candidate is available now! This release is in preparation for a first Spring Boot 3.2 release candidate next week. We expect final releases for general availability in November.

This RC ships a couple of New and Noteworthy changes:

• @ReadPreference support for Repository Query Methods and support for dots in MongoDB document field names.
• Revision of the Converter arrangement in Spring Data Relational allowing to use the same converter abstraction for JDBC and R2DBC modules.
• Asynchronous Caching support for Redis when using the Lettuce driver.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.13 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.13 ships with 34 fixes and documentation improvements, including 7 fixes for regressions. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.12 and 3.1.5, to be released next week.

We expect the next set of Spring Framework maintenance releases to ship next November, along with the new and exciting 6.1.0 we have been working on the last few months.

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On behalf of the Spring Framework team, it is my pleasure to announce that the first Spring Framework 6.1 release candidate is available from repo.spring.io/milestone now.

Spring Framework 6.1.0-RC1 ships 75 fixes and improvements.

New Features

This first release candidate ships a few new features:

• Spring Framework 6.1 requires now a Jackson 2.14 baseline and supports the new DatatypeFeature
• We have made further AOT improvements, reduced the runtime reflection and prepared Framework for upcoming reachability changes in GraalVM
• You can now use an OutputStream as a source of data in reactive web APIs, thanks to a new BodyInserter method variant
• Functional web frameworks now allow headers manipulation when serving static resources; this makes it easier to write HTTP caching response headers.
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Spring Shell 2.1.13, 3.0.8 and 3.1.4 are now available

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.13, 3.0.8 and 3.1.4 has been released and are now available from Maven Central.

Please see the release notes 2.1.13, release notes 3.0.8 and release notes 3.1.4 for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud 2023.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2023.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2023.0.0-M2 Release Train

In this milestone, we have migrated the documentation of all the Spring Cloud projects to Antora.

See all issues and pull requests here.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Refresh Scope on restart - a feature tailored to allow adapting to environment changes on JVM Checkpoint-Restart (PR 1266)

Spring…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.11.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

Notable Changes in 2.11.0

Spring Boot 3 Applications

• Adds support for Spring Boot 3.x based stream applications.
• Adds support for Spring Cloud Task 3.x based task applications.
• Adds support for Spring Batch 5.x based batch applications.

More info can be found in the Boot 3 Appendix.

Library Updates

• Spring Boot 2.7.15
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.8

Kubernetes Update

• The long-awaited update of Kubernetes cronjobs from batch/v1beta -> batch/v1 which allows users to run Kubernetes >= 1.25.0.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.16 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 24 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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