On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of Spring Data 2021.2.6 and 2021.1.10 releases. The service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

For your convenience, the next Spring Boot releases are going to pick up 2021.2.6 and 2021.1.10 in the upcoming days. To round things off, here are the links to the individual modules, changelogs, and documentation:

2021.2.6

• Spring Data Commons 2.7.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.4.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.7.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.3.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.4.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.7.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.4.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data R2DBC 1.5.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of the Spring Cloud 2022.0 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2022.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2022.0 Release Train

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Spring Cloud 2022.0.0-RC2 requires Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2.

All Spring Cloud projects are now using Apache HttpClient v5.

Spring Cloud Contract

This release contains a lot of changes including dependency upgrades and some breaking ones…

I am pleased to announce the first and final release candidate of Spring Modulith 0.1. The release primarily is a preparation for the GA one to follow Spring Boot 3.0 GA some time next week. That said, we managed to sneak a couple of improvements into the Application Module Canvas that will surely be helpful. The Canvas now lists Spring bean references into other modules explicitly and thus documents the required interface of the module, just like constructor arguments describe the dependencies of a class.

Figure 1. Spring bean references in the Application Module Canvas

Also, the Canvas now includes value types exposed by a module. These types are identified by either the annotations or interfaces provided by the jMolecules DDD library…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0 is generally available from Maven Central now! This is the start of a new framework generation for 2023 and beyond, embracing current and upcoming innovations in OpenJDK and the Java ecosystem. At the same time, we carefully designed it as a straightforward upgrade from Spring Framework 5.3.x for modern-day runtime environments.

As a major revision of the core framework, Spring Framework 6.0 comes with a Java 17+ baseline and a move to Jakarta EE 9+ (in the jakarta namespace), with a focus on the recently released Jakarta EE 10 APIs such as Servlet 6.0 and JPA 3.1. This provides access to the latest web containers such as Tomcat 10.1 and the latest persistence providers such as Hibernate ORM 6.1. Don't be stuck on Java EE 8, make the leap to the jakarta…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.24 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.24 includes 33 fixes and improvements.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.10.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release contains an update of the Spring Boot, Spring Framework, and Spring Cloud versions. See the release notes for more information.

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As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 116 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes.

This is the second release candidate and so doesn't include much in the way of new features. It does, however, bring a migration to Jakarta EE 10 APIs and a few changes to /actuator endpoints. Our final release is scheduled for November 24, 2022 so this is your last chance to provide feedback or raise issues for…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-RC4 includes 12 fixes and improvements. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 later this week!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 is available now.

Spring Security 6.0.0-RC2 includes fixes and improvements to the documentation. Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-RC2 later this week!

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