Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and everyone who contributed, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2021.1.0 has entered its release candidate phase by releasing RC1 today. It is available from the milestone repository. This release ships with several tickets fixed. The most notable changes are:

• Deprecate support for RxJava 2 in preparation for removal of RxJava 2 support with Spring Data 3.0.
• Fluent Query API for Querydsl and Query-by-Example, allowing for projections, pagination, and consuming results as a Stream.
• Spring Data JDBC ships with a refined SQL DSL, accepting complex JOIN conditions and subselects.
• Support for exists and not empty keywords in Elasticsearch repository query methods and support for field exclusion in source.
• Improve mapping performance for custom queries and paths in Neo4j and support for ReactiveQuerydslPredicateExecutor.
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Update (2021-10-26): These releases contain fixes for a security issue. Please, read the related announcement.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.11 and 5.2.18 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.11 includes 32 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.18 includes 10 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases next week.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0 Release Train (codename Jubilee) is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2021.0.0-M2 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.0-M2 Release Train

Milestone 2 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.6.0-M3.

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Commons

Adjusts NamedContextFactory API for Sleuth.

Spring Cloud Config

Allow types in JDBC Environment repository besides String …