This Week in Spring - May 17th, 2022

Engineering | Josh Long | May 17, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in beautiful Barcelona, Spain, this week, ahead of the upcoming Spring I/O show. I just spent a wonderful week in amazing England, meeting old friends, speaking at Devoxx UK, etc.

Spring Data 2021.2 and 2022.0 M4 released.

Releases | Christoph Strobl | May 13, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the Data Team and everyone who contributed, I'm pleased to announce the GA release of the 2021.2 release train as well as the 4th Milestone of the 2022.0 one.

Already working on the 2022.0 train, based on Spring Framework 6, Java17 and Jakarta EE 9, the 2021.2 release ships bug fixes and selected back ported features.

Other than dependency upgrades, these are some of the major changes:

  • Infrastructure to introspect a projection type.
  • Common infrastructure for property-specific value converters.
  • Improved support for IdClass handling in data-jpa.
  • Declarative Update methods in data-mongodb.
  • Reindexing support in data-elasticsearch.
  • Direct projections for data-cassandra.
  • ACL support for Redis Sentinels.
  • Lock and Null precedence support for JDBC.
  • Query Rewriter for JPA.

Spring Framework 5.3.20 and 5.2.22 available now

Releases | Brian Clozel | May 11, 2022 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.20 and 5.2.22 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.20 includes 14 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.22 includes 2 backports.

In addition, these releases include fixes for 2 vulnerabilities:

  • CVE-2022-22970 "Spring Framework DoS via Data Binding to MultipartFile or Servlet Part" Denial of Service (DoS) attack in Spring MVC or Spring WebFlux applications that handle file uploads and rely on data binding to set a MultipartFile or javax.servlet.Part to a field in a model object. Severity: Medium

  • CVE-2022-22971 "Spring Framework DoS with STOMP over WebSocket"
    Denial of service (DoS) attack by authenticated users in Spring applications with a STOMP over WebSocket endpoint. Severity: Medium

This Week in Spring - May 10th, 2022

Engineering | Josh Long | May 10, 2022 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! I'm writing this from - I can't believe I get to say this - abroad! I'm in London, UK! Now, this is not particularly noteworthy for those millions who already live here. But I don't live here. I'm a visitor! I live in San Francisco. I had to fly here! On a plane! With other people! ACROSS THE OCEAN. This is my first international flight since March of 2020, and I couldn't be more excited to be here for Devoxx UK and also just to catch up with old friends I haven't seen in nearly three years. If you know me, and how I used to travel, you'll appreciate how odd it is for me to be…

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