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Continuing our monthly milestone release cadence, I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Boot 2.5 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release adds a number of new features and bug fixes.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Layered WARs support for use with Docker
• Custom Buildpack Builder Support
• Jetty 10 Support
• Early Support for Gradle 7

We've also made some significant behind-the-scenes changes to do with the way that schema.sql and data.sql files are processed. If you use those features, please try the milestone and let us know if…

For all users building hypermedia based API, I’d like to announce that we shipped Spring HATEOAS 1.3 M2. We ship two major themes with the release:

• Revised support for HAL-FORMS and most of the additional property attributes derived from types or JSR-303 annotations. For details checkout the revamped section of the references docs or a more complete example.

• We significantly revamped the way we register the media type conversion within the WebMVC infrastructure. This is a response to challenges in selecting the best media type to render in certain Accept header edge conditions. This change should be a non-issue but it would be great if you could test the new setup for a spin and report any glitches you potentially encounter.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.10.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 27 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.

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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2020.0 SR5, Neumann SR7, Moore SR13 and the 4th Milestone of the upcoming 2021.0 iteration.

The attentive reader might have noticed that 2021.0 M3 and 2020.0 SR4 have been hiding out of sight. Well, a tiny glitch made us redo those releases right away for an upgrade without surprises.

For your convenience Spring Boot will pick up the artifacts with its upcoming releases.

2021.0 M4

• Spring Data Commons 2.5 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5 M4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.9 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 47 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’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.4.5 (release notes). This release delivers bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.3 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 75 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 am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.4 and 5.2.13 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.4 includes 62 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.13 includes 18 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases later this week.

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