On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.9 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 contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone release of Spring Batch 5.0 is available now from https://repo.spring.io/milestone. This first milestone includes a number of major changes such as requiring Java 17+, migrating to Jakarta EE 9 APIs as well as upgrading our dependencies across the portfolio to major versions such as Spring Framework 6.0. For a complete list of changes, please check the change log.

We also took the opportunity of this major version to remove deprecated APIs and fix some issues that require non backward compatible changes. The migration guide contains more details about these changes and…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 1.0.0-M5 is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

The M5 release is a quick follow-on after the feature-rich M4 release from December. The main goal for M5 was to move the Boot starter out of the Spring GraphQL repository and into Spring Boot proper, ahead of the first Spring Boot 2.7 milestone this Thursday. In addition to that, as always, there was plenty of feedback leading to a number of refinements and fixes.

Spring Boot GraphQL Starter

The GraphQL starter has moved out of the Spring for GraphQL project repository and into the Spring Boot repository, from where it will be made available in the upcoming 2.7.0-M1 release. Here is the GraphQL section…

Hi, Spring fans! Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Elastic integrations for unified observability of Spring Boot applications on Azure. You can seamlessly ship Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud logs and metrics into Elastic, instrument Spring Boot apps, and monitor every step of your cloud journey. And gain a holistic view across Spring Boot applications and other logs and metrics in your cloud and on-premises environments.

Over the past two years, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about the scenarios they face. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed, fun-filled, rock'em sock'em installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 18th of January and I'm feelin' great because I just got back from a three-day weekend. Here in the US, we celebrated on Monday the life of the good Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a civil rights activist who advanced the plight of African American civil rights. Dr. King is another one of my favorite doctors, along with Drs. Syer, Strange, Who, Subramaniam, and Pollack.

How're you? We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Sabby Anandan
• First Spring Data 2022.0.0 and 2021.2.0 milestones released
• Michael Coté on Twitter
• the Oracle Java team's Sharat Chander (@sharat_chandler) recently took time to thank me, along with my heroes and Bootiful Podcast guests Dr. Venkat Subramaniam (@venkat_s) and Matt Raible (@mraible), for our contributions to the Java ecosystem. I want to return the favor, Sharat, here on this very large platform: thank YOU for all you've done for the community. You're an inspiration.
• Spring Data 2021.1 SR1 and 2021.0 SR8 released
• …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring REST Docs 3.0.0-M1 is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This initial 3.0 milestone contains 13 enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. It covers the baseline upgrade efforts, in particular requiring JDK 17 and Spring Framework 6 and migrating to the Jakarta EE 9 APIs as announced in this blog post.

Please note that support for REST Assured has been removed temporarily as it is not yet compatible with Jakarta EE 9. We hope to reinstate support in a…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 6.0.0-M1 and 5.7.0-M1 are available now.

This initial 6.0 milestone covers the baseline upgrade efforts, in particular requiring JDK 17+ and migrating to the Jakarta EE 9 APIs, required by Spring Framework 6, as announced in this blog post.

For the release changes, please refer to the releases page.

Stay tuned for the announcement of Spring Boot 3.0.0-M1 this week!

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.6.RELEASE has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 18 bug fixes and documentation improvements. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2021.1.1 and 2020.0.8. Both releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up the artifacts with its upcoming releases.

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

2021.1.1

• Spring Data Commons 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.3.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.3.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.6.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.2.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.3.1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …