Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to industry analyst, fascinating person, strategist, and storyteller Michael Coté (@cote).

Aloha, my friends, from Hawai'i, where I'm currently on vacation! And, because I'm on vacation, I'll cut to the chase: there's a lot of great stuff to get to this week (surprise!)

But first, a friendly turtle I met the other day:

You're welcome. Now then, where were we? Oh right!

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk about visualizing software architecture with the C4 model with architect Simon Brown. Don't miss this one!
• Spring Tips: Some cool features possible with Spring Integration 5.5
• Have you checked out the speakers in this year's SpringOne, on September 1st to 2nd, 2021? I'll be there and so will many amazing others!
• Spring Data 2021.0.3 and 2020.0.11 released
• Spring Data 2021.1.0-M1 released
• Spring Framework 5.3.9 and 5.2.16 available now
• I love this blog looking at Spring GraphQL Milestone One
• Spring Security 5.6.0-M1 released
• The State of Spring Survey is back…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.6.0-M1!

In addition to dependency upgrades, bug fixes, and minor enhancements, the milestone contains a few noteworthy changes:

• An AuthorizationManager for method security

• Support for any data type in Access Token Response

• A separate repository for Spring Security samples

You can find the complete details in the release notes.

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data2021.0.2 and 2020.0.10 service releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.9. For your convenience, you can consume these releases through Spring Boot 2.5.3 and 2.4.9, respectively. Our teammates on the Boot team will release those in about a week.

The service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

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

2021.0.3

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.1.0-M1 milestone release.

The release is built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.9. For your convenience, you can consume this release through Spring Boot 2.6.0-M1, which our team mates on the Boot team will release in about a week.

The 2021.1 release train ships a set of features and dependency upgrades. The most important changes are:

• Upgrade to Querydsl 5.
• Support for a wide range of Redis 6.2 commands.
• Support for dialect-dependent custom conversions in Spring Data JDBC. This was used to improve the support of java.time types across multiple databases.
• Support for streaming large result sets in Spring Data JDBC.
• Support for AggregateReference in query derivation.
• REF_CURSOR support for stored procedures in Spring Data JPA.
• Upgrade to MongoDB Driver 4.3 and initial support for MongoDB Server 5.0 Time Series.
• Spring Data MongoDB comes with extended capabilities for linking documents and offers, next to the existing DBRef approach, a property-based solution that uses simple values, such as the target _id…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I talk to author, prolific public speaker, an architect's architect, and one of the most interesting people I get to bump into, and learn from, in this wacky, wild, and wonderful ecosystem of ours: Simon Brown (@simonbrown).

TL;DR - head over to spring.io/survey to take the State of Spring 2021 survey! You can also RT this tweet and help spread the word! Thank you <3

We ran the State of Spring survey last year, and it was a huge success. Spring community members across the globe, like you, shared their views and experiences, and it all made for fantastic reading.

The survey is back this year, and we want to hear from you! How can Spring help you build new apps and experiences this year? What would you like us to change? This year, we have new sections on Spring Native, building & sharing APIs internally…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I look at some key features made possible by the new Spring Integration 5.5 release, including the new Spring .zip archive support and the new Spring Native hints supporting GraalVM native images

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.9 and 5.2.16 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.9 includes 45 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.16 includes 12 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases next week.

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