Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and our contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2020.0.0 is generally available from Maven Central.

Spring Data 2020.0.0 (Codename: Ockham) is the first release train using the changed versioning scheme, previous release trains were identified by name, such as Neumann-RELEASE.

This release train includes several themes. Here's a summary of the most important ones:

• Switch Release Train version to calver (2020.0.0) and introduce spring-data-bom artifact.
• Improve Graal Native Image experience.
• Reactive SpEL context extensions and auditing support.
• Include SDN-RX as Spring Data Neo4j 6.0.
• Oracle dialect for Spring Data JDBC.
• Refactor Spring Data R2DBC on top of Spring Framework’s R2DBC module.
• Upgrade to Redis 6.0 including support ACL authentication and enhanced support for Sorted Set commands.
• Support for RxJava 3.
• De-lombok production code.
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Dear Spring Batch community,

On behalf of the team and all contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Batch 4.3 is now generally available from Maven Central!

This release comes with a number of new features, enhancements, and dependency updates. You can find the complete list of changes in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

• Java records support
• GraalVM support
• New synchronized ItemStreamWriter
• New JpaCursorItemReader Implementation
• Performance improvements in MongoItemWriter and RepositoryItemWriter
• And more!

These features and enhancements have been…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Framework team and our contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.3 is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central!

• What's New in Spring Framework 5.3
• Upgrading to Spring Framework 5.3

Spring Framework 5.3 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically embraces JDK 15 as the latest OpenJDK release, e.g. with binding support for record classes. As the last feature branch of the 5.x generation, the 5.3.x line is set up for an extended support phase, including JDK 17 LTS next year.

The immediate Spring Boot 2.4 and next year's Spring Boot 2.5 release will be based on this framework generation, as well as the incubating support for Spring native executables on GraalVM…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.2.10 and 5.1.19 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.2.10 includes 27 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.19 includes 16 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for Spring Framework 5.3 GA and follow-up Spring Boot releases 2.1.18, 2.2.11, 2.3.5, and 2.4.0-RC1!

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.8.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

quick reminder

• the Eclipse-based distribution of the Spring Tools 4 requires a JDK11 (or newer) to run on
• the Eclipse-based distribution ships with an embedded JDK15 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore

additional changes and fixes

• (Spring Boot) new: Added support for Spring Boot multi-document properties files (#533)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Support escaping of map keys with '[]' in Spring Boot property yaml files
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Tolerate '.[' for map navigation in .properties file
• (Eclipse) improvement: support container image creation and container deployment of Spring Boot apps without maven wrapper
• (Eclipse) improvement: better process label for live hovers from boot apps running in docker
• (Eclipse) improvement: allow docker-deployed boot apps to find each other (via simple network setup inside of docker)
• (Eclipse)…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Authorization Server 0.0.2.

You can download it from repo.spring.io and Maven Central by using the module coordinates:

compile 'org.springframework.security.experimental:spring-security-oauth2-authorization-server:0.0.2'

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

The main features delivered in this release are:

• Proof Key for Code Exchange by OAuth Public Clients (PKCE) — RFC 7636

• User Consent page for OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code Grant — RFC 6749

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On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the fourth milestone of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 145 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Failure Analyzer improvements
• Ability to publish Docker images generated by the Maven and Gradle plugins
• Redis cache metrics exposed via Micrometer
• Numerous dependency upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.4 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and everyone who contributed, it’s my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2020.0.0 RC2 is available from the milestone repository. This release ships with 87 tickets fixed. The most notable changes are:

• PagingAndSortingRepository support for Apache Geode.
• Support for the REVERSERANGEBYLEX command and the KEEPTTL and JUSTID flags in Redis.
• Additional MongoDB aggregation pipeline operators:$unionWith, $function, and $accumulator.
• Cyclic data loading strategy improvements in Neo4j.
• A dedicated Cassandra DataClass row mapper.
• Suspendible repository query methods for use with Kotlin.
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Dear Spring community,

it’s my pleasure to announce the first (and the last) release candidate for Spring Integration 5.4 generation.

It can be downloaded from our milestone repository:

compile 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.4.0-RC1'

Since the previous milestone 3 this release brings more into bug fixes and some internal improvements according Project Reactor changes with processors.

The most notable features in this release are:

• The LogAccessor abstraction from Spring Framework is now used internally for better code readability;

• The ZeroMqMessageHandler and ZeroMqMessageProducer components are now available for one-way interaction with ZeroMq;

• The ReactiveRedisStreamMessageProducer now provides an error handling logic via sending an ErrorMessage to the errorChannel;

• The AbstractMailReceiver now has an option to not fetch a MimeMessage content eagerly and lets the downstream flow to decide what and how to do with such a mail message.

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