On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Shell 2.1.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

Notable changes include:

• Usual small fixes
• UI Component model

Please see the release notes for more details.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.10 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 52 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 2.6.4 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 61 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 2.7.0-M2 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 137 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

• Test slices for Couchbase and Elasticsearch
• Enhancements to auto-configuration registration and ordering
• Support for OkHttp4

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

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…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to InfoQ editor and contributor, fellow Java Champion, and an all-around amazing human being Dr. Alex Blewitt.

• the creator of bash, readline, etc.: Brian Fox
• Reload4j is the version which has Log4j 1.x compatibility with CVEs fixed
• Alex's blog and speaker deck
• Magic number (programming) - Wikipedia

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment I'm joined by my friend, fellow Java Champion, and Developer Advocate at HiveMQ, Mary Grygleski (@mgrygles), and we look at easy Internet of Things (IOT) integration with HiveMQ, Spring Integration MQTT, Spring Boot, and Spring Native

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2021.0.5 and 2021.1.2. These releases deliver bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot will pick up these artifacts with its upcoming releases.

The following modules were updated as part of 2021.0.5:

• Spring Session Core 2.5.5 - release notes
• Spring Session Data Redis 2.5.5 - release notes
• Spring Session JDBC 2.5.5 - release notes
• Spring Session Hazelcast 2.5.5 - release notes

The following modules were updated as part of 2021.1.2:

• Spring Session Core 2.6.2 - release notes
• Spring Session Data Redis 2.6.2 - release notes
• Spring Session JDBC 2.6.2 - release notes
• Spring Session Hazelcast 2.6.2 - release notes
• Spring Session MongoDB 2.6.2 - release notes
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.5 has been released to Maven Central repository. This patch release comes with a number of bug fixes, enhancements and dependency updates. You can find the complete change logs here: 4.3.5.

I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in this release!

Spring Batch Home | Source on Github | Reference Documentation

The Spring Data CrudRepository has various methods that return multiple instances of the entity managed by the repository. It does so by using Iterable and not List, as one might expect. In many cases, that is of no consequence, since you typically want to iterate over the result anyway. However, you might occasionally prefer a List. In these cases, Iterable is annoying.

I will write more about why that choice was made in the first place and how you can deal with it as long as you are on Spring Data 2.x. However, let me get the good news out first:

Repositories returning Lists

Spring Data 3.0.0 now offers a ListCrudRepository in the latest snapshot releases, which returns a List where CrudRepository returns an Iterable…