On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 120 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Improvement of our Docker image support
• Upgrade to MongoDB 4 (still in beta)
• Support of wildcard locations for configuration files
• Numerous dependency upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to community member and Spring Session teammate Vedran Pavic (@vedran_pavic).

• Vedran on Github
• Vedran on Twitter (@vedran_pavic)
• Spring Session

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very nice week indeed. I've been knee-deep in finishing my book, writing more code to support the A Bootiful Podcast production pipeline, and meeting amazing people in the new VMWare organization, and beyond. I've also been working on some new Spring Tips videos - what would you like to see covered, my friends?

We've got a lot of good stuff this week, so let's get to it!

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Oleg Šelajev on ZeroTurnaround, GraalVM, the vJUG and so much more
• Spring Security 4.2.14 Released
• Spring Security 5.2.2, 5.1.8 and 5.0.14 Released
• Spring Security 5.3.0.RC1 Released
• Oh, btw, did you know that the BOM and some choice starters for the Alibaba integrations for Spring are now available on the Spring Initializr?
• I published my monthly digest This Month in Spring over on the Pivotal blog, as usual.
• The Simplest Way to Deploy Spring Boot with PostgreSQL on AWS
• Mutation Testing: Case Studies on Spring Boot APIs
• …

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m pleased to announce the third milestone of the Neumann release train. This release ships exactly 75 tickets fixed and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.3 M2 in the near future.

The most important new features are:

• Upgrade to MongoDB driver 4 (beta).
• Joda-Time and ThreeTenBackport support is now deprecated in favor of JSR-310.
• Geo Distance sort support in Elasticsearch.
• Quoting of table and column names in Spring Data JDBC enabled by default.

You can find a curated changelog in our release train wiki or skim through a full list of changes in JIRA.

The…

On behalf of the Spring Integration team, I’m pleased to announce the second milestone for Spring Integration 5.3.

This release ships several bug fixes, a bunch of new features and improvements and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.3 M2 in the near future.

It can be downloaded from our milestone repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.3.0.M2"

The most important new features are:

• With the IntegrationFlowExtension implementation we now can right our own Java DSL for Spring Integration. It allows to introduce custom or composed EIP-operators. The existing IntegrationComponentSpec implementations can now be extended for additional (missed?) options. So, now any custom and reusable solutions in Java DSL can be implemented in the target project:

  public class CustomIntegrationFlowDefinition extends IntegrationFlowExtension {

  public CustomIntegrationFlowDefinition…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Oleg Šelajev (@shelajev) about ZeroTurnaround, GraalVM, the vJUG and so much more.

• The GraalVM project
• The Virtual JUG
• The vJUG slack
• Oleg Šelajev on Twitter
• JRebel from ZeroTurnaround

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.14 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes, dependency updates, and improvements with our build. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just finished spending a wonderful afternoon with customers and now I'm pouring through all the wonderful new content for this week. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• The Java at Microsoft blog has a nice recap of what’s new in Azure Spring Cloud
• Spring Cloud App Broker 1.1.0.M1 Released
• Spring Session Dragonfruit-M1, Corn-SR1 and Bean-SR9 Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.4.0 Released
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.5.RELEASE, 1.2.4.RELEASE and 1.3.0.M1 are available
• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 2.1.8.RELEASE, 2.2.2.RELEASE and 2.3.0.M1 are now available
• Spring Cloud Greenwich Service Release 5 (SR5) is available.
• "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project" author Gene Kim
• …

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.0.RC1! You can find the complete details in the release notes and the highlights below:

RSocket

gh-7935 - Add RSocket Authentication Extension Support

OAuth 2.0

gh-7699 - Introduce Reactive OAuth2Authorization success/failure handlers

gh-4886 - Add Jackson support to OAuth2 session related classes

Test

gh-7828 - Add oauth2Login Reactive Test Support

gh-7886 - Add oauth2Client MockMvc Test Support

Docs

gh-7801 - Modernize Documentation Styling

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