Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and our contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2021.0.0 (Codename: Pascal) is generally available from Maven Central. This release ships with features, bugfixes, and improvements that contain numerous version and driver upgrades. Note that Spring Data Solr is no longer part of the Spring Data Release Train.

This curated overview summarizes the most significant changes:

• Introduce deleteAllById for CrudRepository and ReactiveCrudRepository.
• Use Spring Core JFR (Java Flight Recorder) metrics.
• QueryByExample for R2DBC and Oracle.
• Enable type- and refactoring-safe use of KProperty and KPropertyPath for property path rendering.
• Embedded Document support & relaxed Aggregation type checks for MongoDB.
• Cassandra prepared statements.
• Repository projections & function execution for Apache Geode.
• Remove Spring Data Solr from release train.
• Support for jMolecules.
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We are happy to announce that we have released the first publicly available milestone version of the Spring Cloud Square incubator project. The project provides Spring Cloud LoadBalancer integration for OkHttpClient and Retrofit, as well as non-blocking WebClient-backed Retrofit clients. Retrofit is a declarative HTTP client from Square.

You can find more information on how to get started with the project below. You can also check the project repository and project documentation .

OkHttpClient Spring Cloud LoadBalancer Integration

An application interceptor is added to the OkHttpClient created…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.6 and 5.2.14 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.6 includes 19 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.14 includes 11 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases later this week.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.2.10 (release notes), Spring Security 5.3.9 (release notes), and Spring Security 5.4.6 (release notes). These releases delivers bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.0-RC1!

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

• JWT client authentication support for OAuth 2.0 clients

• JWT bearer authorization grant support for OAuth 2.0 clients

• AuthorizationManager, a new authorization API for filter security

• Kotlin coroutine support for reactive method security

• OpenSAML 4 support

This release candidate is a good opportunity to give feedback before the actual GA release in mid-May. We look…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data releases 2021.0.0-RC1 and 2020.0.7.

If you use Spring Boot and want to upgrade to 2021.0.0-RC1 or 2020.0.7, set the spring-data-bom.version` property accordingly.

While the service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades, the release candidate contains a few noteworthy changes:

• Improved error messages and exceptions if a repository cannot be created.
• Support @Value meta-annotations on persistence constructor parameters.
• Add support for projections inside the Neo4j templates and CypherDsl executors.
• Consider @Column- and @Element-annotated constructor parameters with Cassandra.
• Add support to Redis Streams by using Jedis Client and upgrade to Jedis 3.6.0-RC1 and Lettuce 6.1.0.RELEASE.
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I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.5 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release adds a number of new features and bug fixes.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• OpenMetrics support for Prometheus
• Support for environment variable prefixes
• More Buildpack updates
• A fresh new look for the docs (including a "dark theme").

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.5-M3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started with 2.5 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on start.spring.io…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 2 of the Spring Cloud 2020.0 Release Train (2020.0.2) is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0.2 Release Train

This release was primarliy for bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

See this page for a list of Known Issues.

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.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Hint-based instance selection for SC LoadBalancer added (#672)
• Request-based sticky-session support added in blocking LoadBalancer client (#901)
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 60 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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