On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I'd like to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data 2021.0.0 release train. This release ships with over 100 tickets fixed. This Spring Data release is the next release to use calver.

The most notable new features are:

• Support for deleteAllById(Iterable<ID>) in CrudRepository and ReactiveCrudRepository
• Usage of Prepared Statements for CassandraTemplate and repository queries, including index-based parameter bindings
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7.10.0

You can find the entire roadmap, including a curated change selection, on the 2021.0.0 release wiki page. We're working now towards a second milestone that will be…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already past the first week of the last month of the year? I can't even believe that it's already been a week since we last congregated here, for this humble column, let alone almost a year since 2019! What a whirlwind.

We've got a ton of stuff to catch up on so let's get to it!

• 10 Best Java Frameworks to Use in 2020 [Updated]
• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Heinz Kabutz
• How to figure out which Spring Boot versions are compatible with which Spring Cloud versions
• J-Fall Virtual 2020: Josh Long - Keynote: Cloud Native Java, Redux - YouTube
• Micrometer's RSocket-based Prometheus proxy version 1.3.0 has been released. This upgrades to RSocket 1.1, Spring Boot 2.4, and Java 11 runtime for the proxy container image. It's also using Paketo buildpacks to build the container now.
• Spring Boot can create a JFR dump
• Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M6 (aka Ilford) Is Available
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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.4.2 (release notes), 5.3.6 (release notes), and 5.2.8 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this week's installment Josh Long talks to his hero, longtime friend (9+ years and counting!), inspiration and a person who has made the JVM a better place to deploy software and the JVM community a better place for people to build software through his JavaSpecialists newsletter and through his amazing content: Dr. Heinz Kabutz. 'Nuff said. Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud App Broker 1.2.1!

Our focus at the start of the 1.2.x release series has been to update our major dependencies, namely Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Open Service Broker. We have also updated and simplified our build and release process. Since the release of 1.1.1, the 1.2.1 release incorporates the following updates:

• Update the Gradle build to make use of new native features for dependency management and publication
• Upgrade to Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.3.6

Gradle:

implementation("org.springframework…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 6 (M6) of the Spring Cloud 2020 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2020 release notes for more information.

This release is compatible with Spring Boot 2.4.0.

Notable Changes in the 2020 Release Train

This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.0.

Please 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 Sleuth

• Bumped OpenTelemetry to 0.11.0
• Bumped Brave to 5.13.2
• Aligned project structure to be consistent with Spring Boot
• Removed deprecated API
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very fun week since we last spoke. How are you? Can you believe that it's already the first day of December, 2020? Time sure flies... or something heh. This week is full of cool stuff so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Swarna Podila on Cloud Foundry, Hashicorp and more
• A Spring Tools Suite office hours
• Cloud Native Buildpacks with Paketo.io & layered jars for Spring Boot
• Developer Toolkit: How to Leverage Reactive Programming with R2DBC Async Java Connector
• If You’re Using Kafka With Your Microservices, You’re Probably Handling Retries Wrong | by Dave Taubler | Nov, 2020 | Medium
• JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes
• Metaspace in OpenJDK 16
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0 Released
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Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.7.0 and 2.6.4

While the release 2.6.4 has the bug fixes, the 2.7.0 has the following updates along with the bug fixes and improvements :

SCDF dashboard re-design using VMware Clarity toolkit

SCDF dashboard is re-designed using VMware Clarity design system. This is a complete rewrite of SCDF dashboard GUI to get the benefits of the Clarity design.

Spring Boot 2.3. Update

SCDF server components are now updated to use Spring Boot 2.3.5 release.

Wavefront integration

Spring Cloud Data Flow dashboards for streams, tasks, SCDF server components and Kafka Streams dashboard are available in VMware Wavefront dashboards for integrations. The configurations required to set up the wavefront integration are simplified at the SCDF as well. More information on this can be found here…

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0. Version 3.2.0 is upgraded to Spring Boot 2.3, and addresses a few issues related to OSB API v2.15 support. It is feature compatible with the 3.1.2 release, and includes the following:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.3.6.RELEASE (#310)
• Return HTTP 400 Bad Request for unknown instance in last operation (#306)
• Fix MaintenanceInfo.toString (#301 via @gberche-orange)
• Replace dependency management plugin with Gradle platform dependencies (#298)
• Add MaintenanceInfo to CreateServiceInstanceRequest and UpdateServiceInstanceRequest (#290)
• Return the operation in the HTTP 202 response body when an async operation is in progress and another request is received for the same service instance (#284)
• Update Gradle build to use native Gradle facilities for publishing artifacts (#280)
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