On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data2021.0.4 and 2020.0.12 service releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.9. For your convenience, you can consume these releases through Spring Boot 2.5.4 and 2.4.10, respectively. Our teammates on the Boot team will release those in about a week.

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

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

2021.0.4

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.1.0-M2 milestone release.

The release is built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.9. For your convenience, you can consume this release through Spring Boot 2.6.0-M2, which our team mates on the Boot team will release in about a week.

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

• Spring Data Commons 2.6 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.3 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.6 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.3 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.6 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.2 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.3 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.6 M2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 1 (M1) 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.

This release is compatible with Spring Boot 2.6.0-M1.

The GitHub Project for this release can be found here.

Notable Changes in the 2021 Release Train

Spring Cloud Gateway

• StripPrefixFilter now defaults to 1 instead of 0 #2033
• Add new CacheRequestBodyFilter #1943
• Share Routes across Gateway instances with Redis #1390

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Added JDBC support #1930
• Instruments Tomcat Valve #1329
• Support for Spring Vault #1952
• Automatic tag table generation documentation #1950
• Spring Cloud Deployer support #1947
• Spring Cloud Skipper support #1927
• R2DBC support #1524
• Support for Reactor Kafka #1708
• Spring TX instrumentation #1941
• Spring Batch support #1904
• RSocket instrumentation #1677
• Support for Spring Cloud Task #1903
• Spring Cloud Config instrumentation #1915
• Added support for Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker Reactive #1910
• Added support for Kotlin Coroutines #1737
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 35 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 2.5.3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 58 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 2.6.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 120 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

• Auto-configuration for Spring Data Envers
• More metrics support (including task execution and scheduling export and support for the Dynatrace v2 API)
• Auto-configured Spring Web Service Server Tests
• Improved Configuration of the Maven Plugin’s Start Goal

Please see the release notes for more…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.6.0-M1!

In addition to dependency upgrades, bug fixes, and minor enhancements, the milestone contains a few noteworthy changes:

• An AuthorizationManager for method security

• Support for any data type in Access Token Response

• A separate repository for Spring Security samples

You can find the complete details in the release notes.

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data2021.0.2 and 2020.0.10 service releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.9. For your convenience, you can consume these releases through Spring Boot 2.5.3 and 2.4.9, respectively. Our teammates on the Boot team will release those in about a week.

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

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

2021.0.3

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.1.0-M1 milestone release.

The release is built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.9. For your convenience, you can consume this release through Spring Boot 2.6.0-M1, which our team mates on the Boot team will release in about a week.

The 2021.1 release train ships a set of features and dependency upgrades. The most important changes are:

• Upgrade to Querydsl 5.
• Support for a wide range of Redis 6.2 commands.
• Support for dialect-dependent custom conversions in Spring Data JDBC. This was used to improve the support of java.time types across multiple databases.
• Support for streaming large result sets in Spring Data JDBC.
• Support for AggregateReference in query derivation.
• REF_CURSOR support for stored procedures in Spring Data JPA.
• Upgrade to MongoDB Driver 4.3 and initial support for MongoDB Server 5.0 Time Series.
• Spring Data MongoDB comes with extended capabilities for linking documents and offers, next to the existing DBRef approach, a property-based solution that uses simple values, such as the target _id…