On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.3.0.M2.

The 1.3.0.M2 release aligns with:

• Spring Framework 5.2.3.RELEASE

• Spring Boot 2.3.0.M2

• Spring Data for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SDG) 2.3.0.M3

• Spring Data Neumann-M3

• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) 2.3.0.M2

• Spring Session Dragonfruit-M2

• Spring Test for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (STDG) 0.0.13.RELEASE

See the changelog for more details.

This release is available in the Spring Milestone Repository as well as available on Spring Initializer at start.spring.io…

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…

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.

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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…

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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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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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.2.2 (release notes), 5.1.8 (release notes) and 5.0.14 (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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The release 2.4.0 mainly focused on the UI updates and selected enhacements. Our post for 2.4.0.M1 contains more info about the changes.

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On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session Dragonfruit-M1, Corn-SR1 and Bean-SR9.

Spring Session Dragonfruit-M1

The Dragonfruit-M1 release is based on:

• Spring Session core modules 2.3.0.M1

• Spring Session Data Geode 2.3.0.M1

• Spring Session Data MongoDB 2.3.0.M1

Additional details of these releases can be found in the changelog.

Spring Session Corn-SR1

The Corn-SR1 release is based on:

• Spring Session core modules 2.2.1.RELEASE

• Spring Session Data Geode 2.2.2.RELEASE

• Spring Session Data MongoDB 2.2.2.RELEASE

Additional details of these releases can be found in the changelog…