On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.11.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 15 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | Gitter

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Rossen Stoyanchev (@rstoya05) about Spring, RSocket, GraphQL, and so much more.

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 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 community, I am pleased to announce that the 2020.0.4 release of Spring Cloud is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. 2020.0.4 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.4.x and 2.5.x.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0.4 release

Spring Cloud Commons

• Allow passing group while creating reactive circuit breaker (#994 )

Spring Cloud Config

• Return Boolean and Integer Properties when using JDBC backend ( #1952 )
• Provide the git username/password at run time(dynamically) ( #1896 )
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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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This is the second article of a series about how to tackle various challenges you might encounter when using Spring Data JDBC. The series consists of

1. Spring Data JDBC - How to use custom ID generation.

2. Spring Data JDBC - How do I make bidirectional relationships? (this article).

3. Spring Data JDBC - How do I implement caching?

4. Spring Data JDBC - How Can I Do a Partial Update of an Aggregate Root?

5. Spring Data JDBC - How do I Generate the Schema for my Domain Model?

If you are new to Spring Data JDBC, you should start by reading its introduction and this article, which explains the relevance of aggregates in the context of Spring Data JDBC…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, it's been another crazy awesome, and jam-packed week in Spring, so we've got a ton of stuff to get to and so very little time in which to do it. Andiamo!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Mark Pollack on Physics, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Data, Spring.NET, Spring XD, and so much more
• Changing Spring Boot packaging to WAR and deploying to Tomcat and Jetty
• Discover Lenovo Innovation at VMworld: Smarter Technology for All
• How much faster is Java 17?
• In June, Okta's Matt Raible, Brian Demers and I did a Twitch stream to figure out how to make the Okta Spring Boot starter work with Spring Native. We succeeded! However, it wasn't easy. Watch our trials and tribulations in this video.
• Check out this massive…

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.