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 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 - …

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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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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0 Release Train (codename Jubilee) is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2021.0.0-M2 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.0-M2 Release Train

Milestone 2 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 Commons

Adjusts NamedContextFactory API for Sleuth.

Spring Cloud Config

Allow types in JDBC Environment repository besides String …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.11.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 15 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the 2020.0.4 release of Spring Cloud is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. 2020.0.4 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.4.x and 2.5.x.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0.4 release

Spring Cloud Commons

• Allow passing group while creating reactive circuit breaker (#994 )

Spring Cloud Config

• Return Boolean and Integer Properties when using JDBC backend ( #1952 )
• Provide the git username/password at run time(dynamically) ( #1896 )
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 32 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 41 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …