This is the second article of a series about how to tackle various challenges you might encounter when using Spring Data JDBC. The series consists of

1. Spring Data JDBC - How to use custom ID generation.

2. Spring Data JDBC - How do I make bidirectional relationships? (this article).

3. Spring Data JDBC - How do I implement caching?

4. Spring Data JDBC - How Can I Do a Partial Update of an Aggregate Root?

5. Spring Data JDBC - How do I Generate the Schema for my Domain Model?

If you are new to Spring Data JDBC, you should start by reading its introduction and this article, which explains the relevance of aggregates in the context of Spring Data JDBC…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, it's been another crazy awesome, and jam-packed week in Spring, so we've got a ton of stuff to get to and so very little time in which to do it. Andiamo!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Mark Pollack on Physics, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Data, Spring.NET, Spring XD, and so much more
• Changing Spring Boot packaging to WAR and deploying to Tomcat and Jetty
• Discover Lenovo Innovation at VMworld: Smarter Technology for All
• How much faster is Java 17?
• In June, Okta's Matt Raible, Brian Demers and I did a Twitch stream to figure out how to make the Okta Spring Boot starter work with Spring Native. We succeeded! However, it wasn't easy. Watch our trials and tribulations in this video.
• Check out this massive…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.6.0-M3!

In addition to dependency upgrades and minor enhancements, the milestone contains a few noteworthy changes:

• Introduced SecurityContextChangedListener

• Added SAML 2.0 Single Logout Support

• Added RelyingPartyRegistrationResolver

• Added support to propagate the TestSecurityContextHolder to SecurityContextHolder

You can find the complete details in the release notes.

On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data 2021.0.5 and 2020.0.13 service releases.

Both releases are built on top of Spring Framework 5.3.10. For your convenience, you can consume Spring Data 2021.0.5 and 2020.0.13 through the upcoming Spring Boot releases 2.5.5 and 2.4.11, respectively.

Both service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

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

2021.0.5

• Spring Data Commons 2.5.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team, I’m delighted to announce the availability of the third Spring Data 2021.1.0 milestone. This release is the last milestone before entering the RC phase on mid October. This release ships besides numerous bugfixes and dependency upgrades a series of notable enhancements:

General

• Support jMolecules' @Identity as ID annotation
• Publish delete events by repository methods deleteInBatch and deleteAllInBatch methods

MongoDB

• Support for MongoDB 5.0 aggregation stages and operators including $setWindowFields for aggregations using time-series.
• Configuration options for MongoDB's versioned Server API.
• Schema derivation for encrypted fields.
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to the one, the only, the amazing and inimitable Dr. Mark Pollack (@MarkPollack) about physics, Spring.NET, Spring Data, Spring XD, Spring Cloud Data Flow, and so much more!

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I'm joined by teammates Tiffany Jernigan and Mario Gray as we recap some of our favorite talks from the just-finished SpringOne 2021 event! Did you miss the show? (why)? Fret not: we'll look at some of our favorite moments from SpringOne 2021!

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.10 and 5.2.17 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.3.10 includes 45 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.2.17 includes 13 selected fixes and improvements.

Stay tuned for follow-up Spring Boot releases next week.

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.12.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2021-09 release (including support for Java 16) (new and noteworthy)
• Java 17 support available (via separate add-on)
• early-access builds for Apple Silicon platform (ARM M1) available

additional changes

• (VS Code, Spring Boot) fixed: [codespaces] vscode extension crashes if specified log output location doesn't work (#676)
• (Eclipse, Spring Boot) improvement: Little UX improvement for Tags Editor in the Properties View (#649)
• (Eclipse, Spring Boot) fixed: symbols don't work anymore in Eclipse (#682)
• (Eclipse, Spring Boot) fixed: Problem with the STS/eclipse initializr for custom project types (#660)
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