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

This release includes dependency upgrades, bug fixes, and minor enhancements as well as a fix for a bug where the StrictHttpFirewall incorrectly rejects valid CJKV characters. The milestone contains a few noteworthy changes:

• Authorization on Every Dispatch Type

• Change the default of shouldFilterAllDispatchTypes to true

• Default to SecurityContextHolderFilter instead of SecurityContextPersistenceFilter

• Remove SAML Deprecations

See the release notes here and here for more…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.6 has been released to Maven Central and that Spring Batch 5.0.0-M3 is now available from our milestone repository.

Spring Batch 4.3.6 is a patch release that comes with a number of bug fixes, enhancements, and dependency updates. For more details about the changes, see the change log.

This blog post is more about 5.0.0-M3, which comes with three major features:

• Native support improvements
• UTF-8 by default
• New Maven Bill of Materials

Moreover, this milestone release comes with a number of enhancements, bug fixes, and dependency updates. See the change log…

On behalf of the team, I’m please to announce the release of Spring Session 2021.2. This release upgrades to Spring Data 2021.2 and provides dependency upgrades, minor enhancements, bug fixes, and strategic changes to prepare Spring Session and it’s users for the next generation of Spring Session built on Spring Framework 6.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I am in beautiful Barcelona, Spain, this week, ahead of the upcoming Spring I/O show. I just spent a wonderful week in amazing England, meeting old friends, speaking at Devoxx UK, etc.

• A Bootiful Podcast: EasyMock contributor, Java Champion, and Java luminary Henri Tremblay
• Also, while we're on the topic of Spring Boot 2.7, remember that Spring for GraphQL is also 1.0 this week! I'm so excited :)
• Example of Spring Cloud Function with AWS Lambda
• I love this - the Activiti 7 developer's guide - showcases some cool patterns and principles for building service-centric workflow solutions with Spring Boot and Activiti
• a handy tip from Maciej Walkowiak on Twitter that Spring Boot 2.7 (due - :checks notes: - this week!) adds native support for Jackson Mixins with @JsonMixin…

UPDATES

• [05-17] Due to a mixup CVE-2022-22975 should have been CVE-2022-22978. The blog has been updated to reflect this correction.

CVE-2022-22978 : Authorization Bypass in RegexRequestMatcher

Spring Security 5.7.0, 5.6.4, 5.5.7 were released to fix CVE-2022-22978 : Authorization Bypass in RegexRequestMatcher. Please update as soon as possible.

Spring Security 5.7.0, 5.6.4, 5.5.7 were released to fix CVE-2022-22976: BCrypt skips salt rounds for work factor of 31. Please update as soon as possible.

UPDATES

• [05-17] Due to a mixup CVE-2022-22975 should have been CVE-2022-22978. The blog has been updated to reflect this correction.

Spring Security 5.7.0 (release notes), 5.6.4 (release notes), 5.5.7 (release notes) have been released which fix

• CVE-2022-22978

• CVE-2022-22976.

Please update as soon as possible.

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On behalf of the Data Team and everyone who contributed, I'm pleased to announce the GA release of the 2021.2 release train as well as the 4th Milestone of the 2022.0 one.

Already working on the 2022.0 train, based on Spring Framework 6, Java17 and Jakarta EE 9, the 2021.2 release ships bug fixes and selected back ported features.

Other than dependency upgrades, these are some of the major changes:

• Infrastructure to introspect a projection type.
• Common infrastructure for property-specific value converters.
• Improved support for IdClass handling in data-jpa.
• Declarative Update methods in data-mongodb.
• Reindexing support in data-elasticsearch.
• Direct projections for data-cassandra.
• ACL support for Redis Sentinels.
• Lock and Null precedence support for JDBC.
• Query Rewriter for JPA.
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow Java Champion, EasyMock engineer, and Java luminary, JUG leader, and legend Henri Tremblay (@henri_tremblay)