On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.0-RC2!

After releasing 5.5.0-RC1 we received some feedback on our APIs that required further refinements. This release finalizes the APIs for the 5.5.0 release later this month.

You can find the complete details in the release notes.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talk to Oracle's Dilip Krishnan (@dilipkrish) about Spring Fox, the Oracle Cloud Lift team, and so much more.

• SpringFox website - http://springfox.io
• Oracle cloud lift - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/cloud-lift/

A cool project that needs some love - ohm from OSS contributor Christophe Bornet, one of the key contributors to JHipster and OpenAPI Generator

Ready to take Spring Boot apps to the happiest place on earth - production at enterprise scale - with Azure Spring Cloud and without worrying about infrastructure, application life cycle, monitoring, container intricacies, Kubernetes. Join Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh (@asirselvasingh), next week, at 10-11 AM CT, May 4th, 2021, and learn how enterprise leaders:

• Run Spring apps in the cloud at enterprise scale.
• Improve developer productivity with DevOps tooling integration and continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Enforce a Zero Trust security model with secrets management, secure communications, and virtual networks.
• Keep an eye on production and quickly troubleshoot issues with monitoring tools of your choice.
• Drive higher utilization of resources and pay only for what you use with Autoscale.
• Deliver value faster to their end customers.
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton to get into, so let's gooo!

• Learn how to enable asynchronous messaging at cloud scale in Spring Boot Java apps using Java Message Service (JMS) API and Azure Service Bus.
• In last week's, A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Reliably CEO Russ Miles
• An awesome hands-on-lab of using Cloud Native buildpacks with Spring Boot by Toshiaki Maki
• Check out Sam Brannan’s epic wiki page on meta programming with Spring
• I love this utility for Google Chrome-using Spring Boot developers from Spring Cloud AWS contributor and legend Maciej Walkowiak: a tiny extension that points you to the current version of the Spring documentation.
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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Reliably CEO Russ Miles (@russmiles) about COVID, chaos engineering, reliable systems engineering and so much more.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 11 (SR11) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. Hoxton.SR11 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Add LoadBalancerRequestTransformer for WebClient-backed load-balancing

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Adds support for evicting connections
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Spring Data 2021.0, codenamed Pascal, is the second release following the new six-month cadence. It ships with refinements to many existing interfaces and programming models. This blog post explains the following topics:

• Introduce deleteAllById for CrudRepository and ReactiveCrudRepository.

• Support for Spring Core Java Flight Recorder (JFR) metrics.

• QueryByExample for R2DBC and Oracle support.

• Enable Type- and Refactoring-safe Use of KProperty and KPropertyPath for Property Path Rendering.

• Enable Cassandra Prepared Statements for Repositories and CassandraTemplate.

• Document Unwrapping Support & Relaxed Aggregation Type Checks for MongoDB.

• Repository projections & function execution for Apache Geode.

• Remove Spring Data Solr from the release train.

• Support for jMolecules.

• Spring Data REST aggregate reference mapping in DTOs.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week we've got a ton of stuff to get to so let's dive right in!

• 5 WAYS to go to PRODUCTION with SPRING BOOT (ft. surprise guest)! - YouTube
• A Bootiful Podcast: Biden campaign CTO, Spinnaker cofounder, Target distinguished engineer, and all around epic guy Dan Woods
• A cool sample Spring Boot app from Oracle
• A nice blog on Spring HATEOAS
• An interesting use case with Azure Spring Cloud and SwissRe
• Blog: Annotating Kubernetes Services for Humans
• Blog: Defining Network Policy Conformance for Container Network Interface (CNI) providers
• Blog: Introducing Indexed Jobs
• Blog: Local Storage: Storage Capacity Tracking, Distributed…

In preparation for the GA release on May 20 2021, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.0-RC1 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release adds a number of new features and bug fixes.

Highlights of the RC include:

• A new actuator endpoint for Quartz
• Support for database initialization with R2DBC
• Micometer metrics support for Spring Data repositories and MongoDB
• Support for Gradle 7.0

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.5.0-RC1 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started with 2.5 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on start.spring.io…