Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.9.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2020-12 release (including support for Java 15)

reminder

• the Eclipse-based distribution of the Spring Tools 4 requires a JDK11 (or newer) to run on
• ships with an embedded JDK15 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore

additional changes

• (Spring Boot) new: show bean startup performance metrics in live hovers and code lenses (details in the user guide)
• (Spring Boot) new: show basic request mapping performance metrics in live hovers and code lensses (details in the user guide)
• (Spring Boot) new: provide content-assist for constructor-arg name in Spring XML config files (#562)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: language-server-internal exception happening when saving a file that has a space or other special characters in its name or path
• (Eclipse)…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud 2020 Release Train is available today. You can find the release in the Spring Milestone repository. See the 2020 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020 Release Train

This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.0.

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 Contract

The Gradle plugin creates a separate classpath when executing tasks.

Spring Cloud Kubernetes

• Packages and starters have been refactored to accommodate new Kubernetes Java Client implementations
• Starters have been added for Kubernetes Java Client implementations (PR)
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Yes, we're going reactive!

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first release candidate of Spring Statemachine 3.0.0 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

Highlights of this release include:

• Relevant api's working with statemachine now have reactive methods.
• From a functional point of view this release is equivalent what's in 2.2.x, 2.3.x and 2.4.x branches apart from reactive changes.
• We've chosen to align with recently released Spring Boot 2.4.1.

Internally everything is basically working atop of reactive…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.7 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.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 59 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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On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of Spring Vault service release 2.2.3.RELEASE.

This release ships with mostly bugfixes, dependency upgrades, and selected features.

For a complete list of changes, see the 2.2.3.RELEASE changelog.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Release 2.2.3.RELEASE on GitHub | Documentation for 2.2.3.RELEASE | Stack Overflow

On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of the first Spring Vault release candidate 2.3.0-RC1.

This release contains a series of changes:

• Updated SecretLeaseContainer endpoints using now /sys/leases instead of /sys/revoke and /sys/renew.

• Introduction of AuthenticationStepsOperator which allows non-blocking access to Resource. This change also introduces a reloading capability for authentication mechanisms for PCF and Kubernetes authentication to obtain the latest credentials when attempting a Vault login.

• Support for KV Patch in VaultTemplate

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3, Spring Data 2020.0, and Project Reactor 2020.0

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 51 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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I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.2.5 and 4.3.1 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These releases include a number of bug fixes and improvements. You can find the change logs here: 4.2.5 and 4.3.1.

I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in these releases!

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