Hi, Spring fans! I hope you're all doing well, staying safe, healthy and happy. Today's election day here in the US, so I am super happy to have the chance to dive into this week's roundup as a bit of a distraction. We've got a ton to get through today, so let's!

• I really enjoyed last week's A Bootiful Podcast episode with Spring Test Framework lead and JUnit contributor Sam Brannen
• Spring Integration 5.4 goes GA; some other Integration releases
• Spring Boot 2.4.0.RC1 is now available
• Notice of Permissions Changes to repo.spring.io, Fall and Winter, 2020
• Congrats, Carsten Hoffmann, on your first live-coding presentation, and congrats on starting your work from my second favorite place on the internet: start.spring.io!
• Oleh Dokuka on Twitter: "Woo! ? ? New RSocket 1.1.0 is GA. It includes, among other things, 10x better performance than before, reworked loadbalance API and implementation, a new RSocketClient…

Dear Spring community,

On behalf the team and everybody contributed, it’s my pleasure to announce that last week we released general availability for Spring Integration 5.4.

It can be downloaded from Maven Central:

compile 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.4.0'

Here is a summary of features and improvements for this Spring Integration generation:

• R2DBC channel adapters;

• ZeroMQ proxy, message channel and channel adapters;

• Redis Streams channel adapters (which are reactive);

• The spring-integration-kafka extension has been moved to the core project and, alongside with an upgrade to the latest Spring for Apache Kafka 2.6.2, includes some improvements;

• The RenewableLockRegistry is implemented for the JdbcLockRegistry.

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On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first release candidate of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 108 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this release include:

• Rationalization of configuration properties for Spring MVC servlet and Spring WebFlux reactive stacks,
• Refinements to the new config file processing, including the ability to load from config trees with a wildcard,
• Upgrades to the recently released Spring Framework 5.3 and Spring Data 2020.0 release train,
• Numerous other dependency upgrades,
…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.18 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 20 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

As mentioned in the announcement last year, this is the last release in the 2.1 line. Please consider upgrading to Spring Boot 2.3.x if you haven’t already done so.

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.11 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 50 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 2.3.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 92 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

A critical piece of infrastructure, the Spring Artifactory instance repo.spring.io, lies at the heart of the Spring portfolio development work. Since 2013, JFrog, Inc. has generously sponsored the instance for the Spring developer community.

The Artifactory repository streamlines our project development by acting as a single location where Spring engineers can point their builds and by providing the community with early access to our snapshots and milestones.

Today, we are providing notice of some upcoming changes to the repository.

Upcoming Changes

If you use repo.spring.io as directed by start.spring.io, (for example, using only /snapshot and /milestone…

Hi Spring fans! This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to legendary Spring Test Framework lead and JUnit contributor Sam Brannen (@sam_brannen)

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce a Spring Data release triple feature: Neumann SR5, Moore SR11, and Lovelace SR21. These service releases are built on top of Spring Framework releases 5.2.10 (Neumann and Moore) and 5.1.19 (Lovelace) and ship with mostly dependency upgrades and fixes, along with a few selected improvements.

Spring Data Neumann SR5 contains 67 improvements and fixes. Spring Data Moore SR11 ships with 43 fixes and improvements. Finally, Spring Data Lovelace SR21 includes 17 selected fixes.

All service releases will be picked up by the upcoming Spring Boot 2.3.5, 2.2.11, and 2.1.18 releases (respectively), for…