Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.7.2 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse) new: this releases introduces a completely new wizard in Eclipse to add Spring Boot starter modules to existing projects. Take a look at the user guide section about it to learn all about this new and way more flexible way to add modules to your Spring Boot projects.
• (Eclipse) new: this releases introduces an experimental early version of support for the Spring Boot OCI image building support in combination with…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 8 (SR8) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the GitHub project. Hoxton.SR8 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x.

Spring Cloud Netflix

Added support for TLS configuration to Eureka Client.

Spring Cloud Config

Added support for…

On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and VMware Tanzu GemFire communities, is it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (SBDG) 1.4.0-M2 & 1.3.3.RELEASE.

SBDG 1.4.0-M2 builds on:

• Spring Boot 2.4.0-M2

• Spring Framework 5.3.0-M2

• Spring Data for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (SDG) 2020.0.0-M2 (Ockham-M2/2.4.0-M2)

• Spring Session for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (SSDG) 2020.0.0-M1 (2.4.0-M1)

• Spring Test for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (STDG) 0.0.18.RELEASE

SBDG 1.3.3.RELEASE builds on:

• Spring Boot 2.3.3.RELEASE

• Spring Framework 5.2.8.RELEASE

• Spring Data for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (SDG) Neumann-SR3 (2.3.3.RELEASE)

• Spring Session for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (SSDG) Dragonfruit-RELEASE (2.3.0.RELEASE)

• Spring Test for Apache Geode & VMware GemFire (STDG) 0.0.18.RELEASE

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, we are very excited to deliver the very first bits of Spring Authorization Server in the 0.0.1 release!

You can download it from repo.spring.io and Maven Central by using the module coordinates:

compile 'org.springframework.security.experimental:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:0.0.1'

For additional details on this new project, see the initial announcement and project page.

The main features delivered in this initial release are:

• OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Grant — RFC 6749

• OAuth 2.0 Client Credentials Grant — RFC 6749

• JSON Web Token (JWT) — RFC 7519

• JSON Web Signature (JWS) — RFC 7515

• JSON Web Key (JWK) — RFC 7517

• Key Management for providing key(s) when signing a JWT (JWS)

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.9.1 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 2 fixes. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.4.0-RC1! You can find the complete details in the release notes and the highlights below:

OAuth 2.0

gh-8903 - Allow for custom ClientRegistration.clientAuthenticationMethod

gh-6489 - Simplify retrieving Introspection-specific attributes

Web

gh-8804 - Remove need for WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter

gh-8599 - Reactive SwitchUserWebFilter for user impersonation

gh-8854 - Add AuthenticationConverterServerWebExchangeMatcher

Kotlin

gh-8783 - Support custom filter in Server Kotlin DSL

SAML 2.0

gh-8887 - Add…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes just over 250 issues and pull requests.

If you're trying this release with an existing Spring Boot 2.3 project, please note the slight change in the format of the version. 2.4.0-M2 is using our new versioning scheme.

Highlights of this second milestone include:

• Spring Framework 5.3 M2
• Spring Data 2020.0.0.M2
• An update to the way that application.properties and application.yml files are processed, including import support and support for volume mounted config trees.
• A a significant overhaul of the Neo4j support.
• Numerous other dependency upgrades
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On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-M2 is now available from our milestone repository.

What’s new?

This release comes with a number of new features and enhancements that you can find in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

1. Kafka support enhancements

By default, the KafkaItemReader reads a topic from the beginning. When we initially introduced this reader in v4.2, it was not possible to configure it to read records from a custom offset. In this release, we added this feature. As a result of this addition, it is now possible to…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.3 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 67 bug fixes, enhancements, 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…