Spring Team: Oliver Drotbohm

Blog Posts by Oliver Drotbohm

Spring HATEOAS 1.4 released

November 22, 2021

I am excited to announce that Spring HATEOAS 1.4 GA has been part of the cascade of releases that lead to the Spring Boot 2.6 last week. The release ships a couple of new features and all bug fixes we have incorporated in the 1.3.x line. The most notable new features are:

Full support for level 4 URI templates
Support for non-composite request parameter rendering
Improved HAL-FORMS support (additional property constraints, custom media types)
Additional HTML input types (checkbox, radio, file)
General dependency upgrades, including Spring Framework 5.3.13 and Jackson 2.13.9.

Spring HATEOAS 1.2.6 and 1.3.1 released

Engineering

May 12, 2021

On behalf of the Spring community I’d like to announce the availability of Spring HATEOAS 1.2.6 and 1.3.1. The releases contain general bugfixes and are scheduled for inclusion in the upcoming Spring Boot service releases.

Find the detailed changelogs for 1.2.6 here and the one for 1.3.1 here.

Spring HATEOAS 1.3 M2 released

Releases

February 19, 2021

For all users building hypermedia based API, I’d like to announce that we shipped Spring HATEOAS 1.3 M2. We ship two major themes with the release:

Revised support for HAL-FORMS and most of the additional property attributes derived from types or JSR-303 annotations. For details checkout the revamped section of the references docs or a more complete example.
We significantly revamped the way we register the media type conversion within the WebMVC infrastructure. This is a response to challenges in selecting the best media type to render in certain Accept header edge conditions. This change should be a non-issue but it would be great if you could test the new setup for a spin and report any glitches you potentially encounter.

What's new in Spring Data Lovelace?

Engineering

September 27, 2018

With Spring Data Lovelace just released in its generally available version last week, it is time to have a brief walk through the new features we have added. The release train is pretty packed with features. In this blog post, I cover the more general ones. Advanced, store-specific news is covered in the following blog posts:

Spring Data Lovelace RC2 available

Releases

August 20, 2018

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of the Lovelace RC2 release. This ships in preparation of Spring Boot 2.1 M2 and, of course, our own GA release mid-September. The release ships with 82 tickets fixed. You can find more details in the the updated and curated release wiki.

A pretty late but significant new feature has made it into the release: deferred repository initialization for Spring Data JPA. The feature allows your startup to use Spring Framework’s JPA background initialization option more effectively and can significantly cut down startup time. See the previewing example for details.

Security issue in Spring Data REST (CVE-2017-8046)

Engineering

March 6, 2018

Last fall, a security vulnerability affecting Spring Data REST was discovered. We patched the affected modules and published a CVE. We’ve seen some recent news about this that’s led to confusion. Here’s the scoop:

tl;dr:

There was a security vulnerability allowing arbitrary code execution in Spring Data REST up to version 2.6.8 and 3.0.0.
This vulnerability has been fixed in the following versions:
– Spring Data REST 2.6.9 (Ingalls SR9, Oct. 27th, 2017), included in Spring Boot 1.5.9 (Oct, 28th 2017).
– Spring Data REST 3.0.1 (Kay SR1, Oct. 27th 2017), included in Spring Boot 2.0 M6, (Nov. 6th 2017)
The CVE was originally published at the end of September 2017. We originally thought that we had fixed the issue with releases that had been published a couple of days before. Subsequent feedback showed that this wasn’t the case and the issue was eventually fixed in October / November 2017. Regrettably, the CVE was not updated to reflect this. The team is working on making sure that this lack of update does not happen again.

Spring Data Ingalls SR8 released

Releases

October 11, 2017

On behalf of the Spring Data team I’d like to announce the eighth service release of the release train Ingalls. The release ships on top of the just released Spring Framework 4.3.12 and in preparation of the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.8 released.

The release ships 42 (yay!) tickets fixed and is a recommended upgrade to all users of the Ingalls release train.

Spring Data Commons 1.13.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data JPA 1.11.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data LDAP 1.0.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Envers 1.1.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation
Spring Data REST 2.6.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Redis 1.8.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Elasticsearch 2.1.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Couchbase 2.2.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

Spring Data release train Kay goes GA

Engineering

October 2, 2017

On behalf of the Spring Data engineering team I am happy to announce the general availability of Spring Data Kay. It’s the first major revision since Spring Data’s inception in 2009 and thus packed with tons of features. Here are the most significant ones:

Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.0, Java 8 and JavaEE 7 as baseline
Revised repository APIs (better method names, Optional etc.)
A revised repository composition model
Support for reactive data access for Cassandra, Couchbase, MongoDB and Redis
Addition of Spring Data Geode to the release train
Use of nullability annotations and advanced runtime checks on those
Kotlin support for null-safety and immutable data classes supported through Kotlin constructors
General Java 9 compatibility

Spring Data Kay M2 released

Releases

April 13, 2017

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of the second milestone of the release train Kay. The release is an important step towards a second generation of Spring Data.

We’ve upgraded the majority of the codebase to Java 8, now also embracing e.g. Optional in method signatures. This mostly affects internal SPIs but also leaks into user code, especially in CrudRepository. The support for reactive Spring Data repositories has been extended to Couchbase (Thanks, Subhashni!), the Redis module has a reactive template API now. The release also ships support for IsEmpty and IsNotEmpty for derived queries and implementaitons of those for MongoDB and JPA. The aggregation framework in MongoDB now also supports streaming results.

Spring Data Ingalls SR1 and Hopper SR8 released

Releases

March 2, 2017

On behalf of the entire team, I’d like to announce the availability of Ingalls SR1 and Hopper SR8 service releases. Both of them ship 77 issues fixed in total. As usual, service releases are bugfix ones and recommended upgrades for all users. The releases are going to be picked up by the upcoming Boot 1.5 and 1.4 services releases for your convenience.

The complete list of issues fixed for Ingalls SR1 can be found here, the one for Hopper SR 8 here.

Spring Data Ingalls SR1

Spring Data Commons 1.13.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data JPA 1.11.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data LDAP 1.0.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Envers 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation
Spring Data REST 2.6.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Redis 1.8.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Elasticsearch 2.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
Spring Data Couchbase 2.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog