Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR9 has been released

Releases | Olga Maciaszek-Sharma | November 10, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 9 (SR9) 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

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the GitHub project. Hoxton.SR9 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x.

Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Authorization Server 0.0.3 available now

Releases | Joe Grandja | November 10, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 0.0.3.

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:0.0.3'

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

The main features delivered in this release are:

  • OAuth 2.0 Refresh Token Grant — RFC 6749

  • OAuth 2.0 Token Revocation — RFC 7009

See the release notes for…

Spring Framework 5.3.1 and 5.2.11 available now

Releases | Stéphane Nicoll | November 10, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.1 and 5.2.11 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.1 includes 29 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.11 includes 10 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases later this week, including Spring Boot 2.4 GA!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

New in Spring 5.3: Improved Cron Expressions

Engineering | Arjen Poutsma | November 10, 2020 | ...

If you regularly listen to A Bootiful Podcast, you might have heard about the improvements we made to Spring Framework’s cron support. Cron expressions are mostly used in Spring applications through the @Scheduled annotation. In Spring 5.3, we introduced the CronExpression class, which represents — you guessed it — a cron expression.

CronExpression replaces CronSequenceGenerator, which is based on java.util.Calendar and which has several known issues that none of the Spring team members felt comfortable solving. Introducing a new type allowed us to use the superior java.time APIs, solve the…

Spring Data 2020.0 - New and Noteworthy - A general Overview

Engineering | Christoph Strobl | November 06, 2020 | ...

Spring Data 2020.0, based on Spring Framework 5.3, is out and with it, a ton of new features across the various stores, which are covered by the individual modules. While posting highlights along with the milestone announcements, we wanted to give you a more detailed description of the new features in a series of blog posts. These posts will cover, among other things:

  • Reactive Context Access features in Data Commons.
  • Lifecycle callbacks and baselining to Spring R2DBC in R2DBC.
  • General Repository and store-specific Redis Cache Metrics.
  • Neo4J reactive repositories.
  • Paging repository APIs for Spring Data for Apache Geode.
  • Geoshape, index, and reactive search improvements for Spring Data Elasticsearch.
  • Partial filter and aggregation hints in MongoDB.
  • @Bean row mappers for the JDBC module.
  • Per-statement key spaces definition for the Apache Cassandra abstraction.
  • Declarative Couchbase N1QL queries.

Spring Security 5.5.0-M1 Released

Releases | Joe Grandja | November 04, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.0-M1! You can find the complete details in the release notes and the highlights below:

OAuth 2.0

gh-5502 - OAuth2Token interface for AbstractOAuth2Token
gh-9070 - Use LobHandler in JdbcOAuth2AuthorizedClientService
gh-8765 - Provide a R2dbc implementation of ReactiveOuath2AuthorizedClientService
gh-7160 - JwtDecoders and ReactiveJwtDecoders should determine algorithm from JWK Set Endpoint

SAML

gh-9177 - SAML 2.0 Asserting Party Metadata resolution should read SigningMethod elements
gh-9131

This Week in Spring - November 3, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | November 03, 2020 | ...

Spring Integration 5.4 goes GA; some other Integration releases

Releases | Artem Bilan | November 02, 2020 | ...

Dear Spring community,

On behalf the team and everybody contributed, it’s my pleasure to announce that last week we released general availability for Spring Integration 5.4.

It can be downloaded from Maven Central:

compile 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.4.0'

Here is a summary of features and improvements for this Spring Integration generation:

  • R2DBC channel adapters;

  • ZeroMQ proxy, message channel and channel adapters;

  • Redis Streams channel adapters (which are reactive);

  • The spring-integration-kafka extension has been moved to the core project and, alongside with an upgrade to the latest Spring for Apache Kafka 2.6.2, includes some improvements;

  • The RenewableLockRegistry is implemented for the JdbcLockRegistry.

Spring Boot 2.4.0-RC1 available now

Releases | Scott Frederick | October 30, 2020 | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first release candidate of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 108 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this release include:

  • Rationalization of configuration properties for Spring MVC servlet and Spring WebFlux reactive stacks,
  • Refinements to the new config file processing, including the ability to load from config trees with a wildcard,
  • Upgrades to the recently released Spring Framework 5.3 and Spring Data 2020.0 release train,
  • Numerous other dependency upgrades,

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