Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.4.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse) major change: quick text search contributed to the Eclipse platform and ships to millions of Eclipse users now
• (Eclipse) improvement: updated to Eclipse 2019-09 release
• (Eclipse) improvement: various improvements to support the dark theme
• (Eclipse) fixed: deadlock during startuo fixed
• (Concourse) improvement: updated to latest changes in Concourse YAML elements and attributes
• various additional bug fixes

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On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 4.2.0.RC1. We have been working on some performance improvements in the core framework, and this post highlights the major changes.

Major Performance Improvements

We have made some performance improvements, including:

• Enhanced Step Partitioning
• Improved Job Stop
• Faster Writes with the JpaItemWriter
• Optimized Bean Mapping with the BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper

Enhanced Step Partitioning

Starting a partitioned step is an area where the framework wasn't well optimized. In this version, we have dug deep into…

This post was authored by Vedran Pavić

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session Corn-M4. This release is picked up by Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6.

Spring Session Corn-M4

The Corn-M4 release is based on:

• Spring Session core modules 2.2.0.M4

• Spring Session Data Geode 2.2.0.M4

• Spring Session Data MongoDB 2.2.0.RC2

Some of the highlights of Spring Session 2.2.0.M4 are:

• support for customizing configuration of session repositories using new SessionRepositoryCustomizer/ReactiveSessionRepositoryCustomizer

• support for configuring transactional behavior for JdbcOperationsSessionRepository

• support for Spring Security’s AuthenticatedPrincipal in SpringSessionBackedSessionRegistry

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On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.1.1.RELEASE as well as 1.2.0.M2.

Bits for 1.1.1.RELEASE are available in Maven Central.

Bits for the 1.2.0.M2 release are available in the Spring Milestone Repository.

What’s New

SBDG 1.1.1.RELEASE has been upgraded to Spring Boot 2.1.8.RELEASE while SBDG 1.2.0.M2 has been upgraded to Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6.

Additionally, both 1.2.0.M2 and 1.1.1.RELEASE now support running your Spring Boot, Apache Geode ClientCache applications in Pivotal Platform using Pivotal Cloud Cache (PCC)…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 3 (SR3) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information. All issues closed in this release across all projects can be found in the Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR3 project on GitHub

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

New Load Balancer Implementations

Spring Cloud Greenwich.M3 is the first release containing both blocking and non-blocking load balancer client implementations as an…

On behalf of the community, I’m excited to announce the availability of Spring Vault 2.2 M1. This release ships with over 90 fixed tickets in total, containing several features, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades.

The most notable new changes are:

• Support for PCF-based authentication by using instance identity certificates.

• Kotlin extensions.

• Builders for RestTemplate and WebClient to customize interceptors, filter functions, and default headers.

• Vault namespace support (Vault Enterprise edition only).

• @VaultPropertySource now supports versioned key-value backends.

• Added listener and events support to LifecycleAwareSessionManager.

• Support for the Jetty HTTP Client as an alternative reactive HTTP client.

• Reactive support for AWS IAM authentication.

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On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the sixth milestone of Spring Boot 2.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release contains over 140 issues and pull requests.

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.2 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

Our next 2.2 release will be RC1 later this month with GA to follow in mid-October. If you haven't already done so, now is a great time to try a 2.2 milestone and provide us with your feedback. If you want to get started with 2.2 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.2.0.RC1! You can find the complete details in the release notes and the highlights below:

RSocket

gh-7360 - Add RSocket Support

SAML

gh-6019 - Add SAML Service Provider Support

OAuth 2.0

Resource server

gh-7101 - JwtGrantedAuthoritiesConverter allows configuring the authority prefix

gh-7100 - JwtGrantedAuthoritiesConverter allows configuring the authorities claim name

gh-7345 - Opaque Token Introspector returns an Authenticated Principal

gh-7346 - Add Adapter to Translate Jwt to BearerTokenAuthentication

gh-5334 and gh-7284 - Resource Server supports WebClient Bearer…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.8 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 77 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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