On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 32 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 2.5.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 41 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 2.6.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

Highlights of this release include:

• The PathPattern based path matching strategy is now used by default for Spring MVC applications.
• Elasticsearch properties for the different client implementations have have been consolidation and rationalized.
• Sanitization rules are now pluggable and can be based on the backing PropertySource.
• Spring Integration PollerMetadata properties are now provided.

For more details please take a look at the release notes wiki page and the changelog. Spring Boot 2.6.0-RC…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.6.0-M3!

In addition to dependency upgrades and minor enhancements, the milestone contains a few noteworthy changes:

• Introduced SecurityContextChangedListener

• Added SAML 2.0 Single Logout Support

• Added RelyingPartyRegistrationResolver

• Added support to propagate the TestSecurityContextHolder to SecurityContextHolder

You can find the complete details in the release notes.

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.0.5 and 2020.0.13 service releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.10. For your convenience, you can consume Spring Data 2021.0.5 and 2020.0.13 through the upcoming Spring Boot releases 2.5.5 and 2.4.11, respectively.

Both service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

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

2021.0.5

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team, I’m delighted to announce the availability of the third Spring Data 2021.1.0 milestone. This release is the last milestone before entering the RC phase on mid October. This release ships besides numerous bugfixes and dependency upgrades a series of notable enhancements:

General

• Support jMolecules' @Identity as ID annotation
• Publish delete events by repository methods deleteInBatch and deleteAllInBatch methods

MongoDB

• Support for MongoDB 5.0 aggregation stages and operators including $setWindowFields for aggregations using time-series.
• Configuration options for MongoDB's versioned Server API.
• Schema derivation for encrypted fields.
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.10 and 5.2.17 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.10 includes 45 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.17 includes 13 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases next week.

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.12.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2021-09 release (including support for Java 16) (new and noteworthy)
• Java 17 support available (via separate add-on)
• early-access builds for Apple Silicon platform (ARM M1) available

additional changes

• (VS Code, Spring Boot) fixed: [codespaces] vscode extension crashes if specified log output location doesn't work (#676)
• (Eclipse, Spring Boot) improvement: Little UX improvement for Tags Editor in the Properties View (#649)
• (Eclipse, Spring Boot) fixed: symbols don't work anymore in Eclipse (#682)
• (Eclipse, Spring Boot) fixed: Problem with the STS/eclipse initializr for custom project types (#660)
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my great pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 0.2.0.

This release is the first officially supported production-ready version backed by our new support policy.

You can download it from Maven Central by using the module coordinates:

compile 'org.springframework.security:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:0.2.0'

See the release notes for complete details.

For additional details on this project, see the latest and initial announcement and the project page.

To get started using Spring Authorization Server, see the sample to become…