Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you? I'm doing alright, thank you! I'm really excited about this week, too, because it features a ton of cool stuff. Also, it's 22/2/22! And I posted this at 22:22! :D

• Spring Tips: Spring Native and MyBatis
• A Bootiful Podcast: Java team luminary Sharat Chander
• Announcing ListCrudRepository and Friends for Spring Data 3.0
• Azure Spring Cloud Enterprise is now available in preview
• Matt Raible on Twitter talking about getting a full JHipster application working with Spring Native :-)
• I worked with the folks behind the Flowable BPMN workflow engine and helped them get their Spring Boot integration working in Spring Native. They wrote about the whole thing in this wonderful blog, Running Flowable with Spring Native
• Asynchronous Programming by Using Spring Events
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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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.7.0-M2.

You can find the complete list of dependency updates, bug fixes and enhancements in the release notes.

Among the enhancements you will find we have deprecated the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter. For additional details you can check out this blog post on the future of Spring Security without the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter.

We look forward to hearing your feedback.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.5 (release notes) and Spring Security 5.6.2 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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In Spring Security 5.7.0-M2 we deprecated the WebSecurityConfigurerAdapter, as we encourage users to move towards a component-based security configuration.

To assist with the transition to this new style of configuration, we have compiled a list of common use-cases and the suggested alternatives going forward.

In the examples below we follow best practice by using the Spring Security lambda DSL and the method HttpSecurity#authorizeHttpRequests to define our authorization rules. If you are new to the lambda DSL you can read about it in this blog post. If you would like to learn more about why we choose to use HttpSecurity#authorizeHttpRequests you can check out the reference documentation…

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce Spring Data service releases 2021.1.2 and 2020.0.9. Both releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. For your convenience, Spring Boot 2.6.4 respective 2.5.10 are going to pick up these releases in the upcoming days.

Along with the service releases, we released the next milestone 2021.2.0-M3 of the 2021.2 release train. We have summarized the new and noteworthy changes in our release notes.

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

2021.2.0-M3

• Spring Data Commons 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.4 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.4 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.4 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.3 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.7 M3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 1 of the Spring Cloud 2021.0 Release Train is available today. This was primarily a bug fix release. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.1 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.1 Release Train

See the project page for all issues included in the release.

Spring Cloud Config

• Fix pattern matching bug with JSON, YAML, and properties files (2020)

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Numerous bug fixes

Spring Cloud Contract

• Bug fixes

Spring Cloud Gateway

• A new route predicate that checks for allowed values for the X-Forwarded-For header, similar to the RemoteAddr predicate. (783)
• Allows setting of the order of the Gateway HandlerMapping. By default, the Gateway HandlerMapping has precedence, but it can be changed if require. (2469)
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring LDAP 2.3.6 (release notes) and 2.4.0-M2 (release notes) are available now.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman)  talks to @Java team luminary and community legend Sharat Chander (@sharat_chander).