On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode (SBDG) 1.1.10.RELEASE, 1.2.10.RELEASE, 1.3.4.RELEASE and 1.4.0-M3.

SBDG 1.1.10.RELEASE is based on Spring Boot 2.1.17.RELEASE, SBDG 1.2.10.RELEASE is based on Spring Boot 2.2.10.RELEASE, SBDG 1.3.4.RELEASE is based on Spring Boot 2.3.4.RELEASE and SBDG 1.4.0-M3 is based on Spring Boot 2.4.0-M3. In addition, SBDG pulls in the latest Spring Data, Spring Session and Spring Test for Apache Geode releases and bits.

Each of these releases includes dependency alignment, documentation revisions and minor improvements. See the changelog…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.17 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 22 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Please note that version of Spring Framework that is used by this release of Spring Boot contains a fix for a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-5421).

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…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-RC1 is now available from our milestone repository.

What’s New?

This release comes with a number of new features that you can find in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

1. GraalVM Support

A lot of work has already been done in Spring Framework to support running some types of Spring applications on GraalVM. In this release, we made changes in Spring Batch to correctly run Batch applications on GraalVM as well.

The support is still experimental, so we encourage you to give the release a try and share your feedback.

2. Java…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.10 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 72 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Please note that version of Spring Framework that is used by this release of Spring Boot contains a fix for a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-5421).

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 2.3.4 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 61 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Please note that version of Spring Framework that is used by this release of Spring Boot contains a fix for a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-5421).

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 that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 160 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Java 15 support
• A new Startup actuator endpoint
• Docker authentication support
• Config data import improvements
• Numerous dependency upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.4 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend and Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér (@jboner) about his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, and reactive work over the decades, about the cooperation with the Spring team on the Reactive Streams, the Reactive Foundation, and more.

• Check out the upcoming Reactive Summit! Both Jonas and Josh will be speaking there :-)

Hi, Spring fans! I was on the Microsoft Azure YouTube show Azure in the Enterprise with Lyle Dodge where I did a quick demonstration introducing the Spring for Microsoft Azure support for the Microsoft Azure Object Storage Service. Check it out!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an absolutely nutty week! It's just Tuesday and I'm beat!

Over the weekend I completely refactored the pipeline I used for my just-published book Reactive Spring (which, by the way, is now available on Leanpub and on Amazon as digital and paperback editions) and turned it into the turnkey Asciidoctor pipeline I'd always wanted but - since I was traveling 650,000 miles a year, speaking at hundreds of conferences or events yearly, writing a 450-page book, releasing weekly blogs, recording a weekly podcast…