On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.0 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

Please see the release notes for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Earlier this year we started an effort align the project with latest Spring Boot and Spring Framework versions as it was difficult to use existing Spring Shell release of a spring family.

Originally the main issue we wanted to address was a removal of a bean cycles which Spring Boot is now enforcing by default. While this feature can be turned off it is not something Spring Shell should require. This required a lot of changes and we chose to handle it with rework of a shell internals. One big challenge was how the old Spring Shell worked by essentially keeping command info methods backed by @ShellMethod…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 30 bug fixes, documentation 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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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.2 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 40 bug fixes, documentation 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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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 3.0.0-M4 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 161 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

• Support for Elasticsearch's new Java client
• Support for Flyway 9
• Support for Hibernate 6.1

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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…

On behalf of everyone involved, I'm pleased to announce the first maintenance release of Spring for GraphQL, it is now available from Maven Central. This version will be shipped with Spring Boot 2.7.2.

This release includes 10 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-graphql tag.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 5.0.0-M4 is now available from our milestone repository.

This fourth milestone introduces several improvements for Java Records support. It also comes with a number of enhancements, bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and documentation updates. For more details about all the changes, see the release notes.

Java Records Support Improvement

The support for Java records as items in a chunk-oriented step was initially introduced in v4.3, but that support was limited, due to the fact that v4 has Java 8 as a baseline. In Java 8, records were not even in preview yet. That initial support was based on reflection tricks to create Java records and populate them with data, without having access to the java.lang.Record…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the 5th Milestone of Spring Data 2022.0.0 as well as service releases 2021.2.2 and 2021.1.6. The service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. One notable upgrade in 2022.0.0-M5 is the move to Hibernate 6.

For your convenience, the next Spring Boot releases are going to pick up 2021.2.2 and 2021.1.6 in the upcoming days. To round things off, here are the links to the individual modules, changelogs, and documentation:

2022.0.0-M5

• Spring Data Commons 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.0 M5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5 and 5.3.22 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.22 includes 45 fixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring production scenarios.

Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5 includes 85 additional fixes and improvements specific to the 6.0 branch.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Native 0.12.1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/release.

This release includes 15 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades to Spring Boot 2.7.1 and Native Build Tools 0.9.13. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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