On behalf of the team and all contributors, I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 6.0.0-RC1 is now available from Maven Central!

This release candidate comes with following features and improvements:

• Graceful Shutdown support
• SEDA style with Spring Integration message channels
• Local chunking support
• Jackson 3 support
• Remote step support

For the complete list of changes, please check the release notes.

Graceful Shutdown support

Spring Batch 6.0 introduces support for graceful shutdown of batch jobs. This feature allows you to stop a running job execution in a controlled manner, ensuring…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the First (and hopefully last) Release Candidate of Spring Integration 7.0.0 generation. For convenience, the 7.0.0-RC1 artifacts are also available in Maven Central.

In addition, the 6.5.3 and 6.4.8 versions with bug fixes and dependency upgrades have been released.

Some notable changes in 7.0.0-RC1 are:

• Channel Adapters for AMQP 1.0 based on Spring AMQP 4.0;
• The directory to scan in the FileReadingMessageSource can now be configured as an expression to be evaluated at runtime on each scan call;
• The MESSAGE_BYTES SQL column for message store tables has been renamed to the MESSAGE_CONTENT as with some implementation the message serialization is not always byte array;
• All the Spring Integration modules now follow the standard package structure: components has been moved to input or output packages according to their purpose;
• The ScatterGatherHandler now fully support async mode emiting a Mono…

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I am pleased to announce the first (and hopefully last) Release Candidate for 4.0.0 of Spring AMQP.

The patch versions 3.2.8 also has been released with bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

This Release Candidate comes with some internal imporvements, bug fixes and dependency upgrades to their latest major and minor versions.

See the Release Notes and What's New for more information.

This is the last chance to reach us out in GitHub issues with any feddback, so possible fixes would make it into GA release in November!

Cheers, 
Artem

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring for Apache Pulsar 1.2.11 and 2.0.0-RC1 have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

The 1.2.11 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 3.4.11 and 3.5.7 releases. The 2.0.0-RC1 release will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot 4.0.0-RC1 release.

Please see the release notes (1.2.11 and 2.0.0-RC1) for more details.

The Spring Integration for AWS was always an independent Spring Integration extension project with its own plans and release cycles. The consumption of this single jar library has always added a complexity from the dependency management perspective. It depends not only on Spring Integration modules like HTTP and File but directly on Spring Cloud AWS and of course the AWS SDK. Most of the dependencies are optional since this project brings channel adapters and components for different AWS integrations, like S3, SQS, DynamoDB, SNS and Kinesis. Therefore, target projects would suffer not only…

In 2013, it was proposed to add multi-factor authentication into Spring Security. That was the year that “selfie” was added to the English dictionary and “What Does the Fox Say?” was a viral YouTube hit.

Needless to say, one of the biggest features in Spring Security 7 is a long time coming, and is our next stop along our Road to GA.

What is Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)?

Multi-Factor Authentication is an authentication strategy by which your identity is determined on a website by more than one means of verification, or factor. Common factors fall into one of a few categories:

• Something you know; like a password or an answer to a security question
• Something you have; like an app on your cell phone
• Something you are; like a thumbprint or other biometric
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the releases of Spring Authorization Server 1.5.3 and 1.4.6.

See the 1.5.3 and 1.4.6 release notes for complete details.

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I am pleased to announce that Spring for GraphQL 1.4.3 is now available on Maven Central. This release closes 5 issues.

This version will ship with Spring Boot 3.5.7, to be released this week.

How can you help?

If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-graphql tag.

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I am pleased to announce that the first Spring for GraphQL 2.0 Release Candidate is now available.

This release ships a few refinements and features, including:

• improved nullness checks in the schema mapping inspection
• new GraphQlClient and GraphQlTester Kotlin extensions leveraging reified types
• UUID support in JsonKeysetCursorStrategy
• a new HttpRequestHeaderInterceptor that can copy HTTP headers of interest into the GraphQLContext
• Virtual Threads support in webmvc.GraphQlWebSocketHandler

What's next?

We have compiled all release notes on our wiki. Our next step is the final release next…