On behalf of the team everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the Spring LDAP 3.1.0 is available now!

Please refer to the releases page for more detail on what is included in this and the preceding milestone releases.

Of note in this release is a new LDAP client that offers a fluent API similar to WebClient as well as first-class Stream support.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, we are very excited to announce the general availability of Spring Security 6.1!

In addition to bug fixes and dependency upgrades, the 6.1 release brings many new features including:

• AuthorizationManager enhancements

• OAuth2 enhancements

• SAML2 enhancements

• RequestMatcher enhancements

• Refreshed documentation pages and navigation improvements

Check out What’s New in Spring Security 6.1 for a comprehensive list of new features.

You can also see the release notes for 6.1.0-M1, 6.1.0-M2, 6.1.0-RC1, and 6.1.0 for an in-depth view.

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I'm happy to announce that a Spring Security Kerberos 2.0.0-RC1 milestone is now available via https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2022.0.6 and 2021.2.12. Both releases ship with mostly dependency upgrades and bug fixes. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up the artifacts with its upcoming releases.

To round things off, here are the links to the artifacts, changelogs, and documentation:

2022.0.6

• Spring Data Commons 3.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the Spring Data engineering team and everyone who contributed to this release, I am delighted to announce the general availability of Spring Data 2023.0 (Codename: Ullman) from Maven Central! This release has a strong focus on AOT follow-ups and several module-specific improvements.

Spring Data 2023.0 leverages Spring Framework 6.0.9 as its baseline along with Project Reactor 2022.0.7 and Micrometer 1.10.6.

A general theme of this release was the introduction keyset-based scrolling. We added a new Scroll API across the portfolio to implement alternative scrolling mechanisms for…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to James Ward, Kotlin Product Manager at Google

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.9 is available now.

Spring Framework 6.0.9 ships with 40 fixes and documentation improvements, including 4 fixes for regressions.

This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 3.0.7, to be released next week. The next Spring Framework releases are scheduled for June 14th, with the next 5.3.x and 6.0.x maintenance releases, as well as the first 6.1.0-M1 milestone version.

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Starting with version 6.0.9, the Spring Framework reference documentation site is generated with Antora. This is a big change that brings many improvements. This blog post provides context around that.

Overview

For a long time the Spring Framework reference documentation had two versions, one single page, and one multipage. The single page was very large but often preferred for the ability to search with Ctrl+F. The multipage provided structure, but it was difficult to navigate and search. See for example the single and multiple versions from 4.3.x.

In 5.0 we switched to a single version that split the documentation into several high-level sections as a kind of middle ground between the single and the multipage versions. You could still use Ctrl+F within a section, while the content one any one of those pages wasn't as large as the full documentation. In this version we also added left-hand side navigation to make it easy to navigate the content. See example…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wonderful, fancyful installment of This Week in Spring! I was just at the first Devoxx GR, in the sunny mediterranean city of Athens, Greece. Uh, yah, this was a good'un. If you can get to it, you should. Don't miss next year's installment if you missed this one. And now, I'm in London, for one of my all time favorite shows, Devoxx UK. Are you going to Devoxx UK? Come find me! I'll be talking about Spring Boot 3, and it should be fun. After this, I'm off to Germany where I may be appearing at a JUG near Wolfsburg (I'll keep you posted). Then, it's off to…