Who contributed to Spring on August 11, 2026?

7 developers shipped this update, including Mark Paluch, Stéphane Nicoll, dependabot, Josh Cummings, xxxxxxjun, Artem Bilan, and tknall.

What were the notable Spring updates?

Remove Release Workflows, Add Release Train Integration, and Upgrade to MySql R2DBC Driver 1.4.3.

Aug 11, 2026

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SPRING SECURITY MOVES TO RELEASE TRAIN, SPRING INTEGRATION CRUSHES FLAKY TESTS

By RepoJournal · Filed 07:00 UTC on August 11, 2026 · About Spring · Composed from the cited sources · methodology

7 people shipped this

Mark Paluch @mp911de 4 cited

Stéphane Nicoll @snicoll 2 cited

Josh Cummings @jzheaux 2 cited

Artem Bilan @artembilan 2 cited

xxxxxxjun @xxxxxxjun 1 cited

tknall @tknall 1 cited

dependabot @dependabot

Spring Security removed its custom release workflows in favor of release train support, a structural shift that simplifies the entire project's delivery cadence [ref:13].

The security team's move to release train participation [2] marks a significant change in how Spring handles coordinated releases across its ecosystem. Simultaneously, Spring Integration landed three critical test stability fixes: a flaky Redis concurrency bug that could silently drop messages [10], a Windows file deletion race condition [11], and a directory-creation race in FileWritingMessageHandler that left concurrent messages stranded [12]. On the AMQP front, Spring Integration fixed a long-standing issue where waitForConfirm was ignored for simple confirms without correlation data [9], bringing single-message behavior into line with the batched path. Across relational data access, Spring Data upgraded all R2DBC drivers to their latest patch releases: MySQL 1.4.3 [3], SQL Server 1.0.5.RELEASE [4], and Postgres 1.1.2.RELEASE [5], while also disabling flaky Oracle integration tests [6]. Spring Boot locked in Gradle 9.7.0 [7] and fixed a hostname verification failure in Elasticsearch smoke tests by regenerating self-signed certificates with RFC 6125 compliance [8]. Across 5 repos, the team shipped 54 commits and 7 PRs in this cycle.

Action items

→ Update Spring Security builds to integrate with release train tooling spring-projects/spring-security [plan]
→ Upgrade Spring Data R2DBC drivers to latest patch releases before next build spring-projects/spring-data-relational [plan]
→ Cherry-pick Spring Integration test fixes to 7.0.x and 7.1.x branches spring-projects/spring-integration [immediate]
→ Lock Gradle to 9.7.0 across dependent projects spring-projects/spring-boot [plan]

References

[1] Remove Release Workflows ↗ spring-projects/spring-security
[2] Add Release Train Integration ↗ spring-projects/spring-security
[3] Upgrade to MySql R2DBC Driver 1.4.3. ↗ spring-projects/spring-data-relational
[4] Upgrade to Microsoft SqlServer R2DBC Driver 1.0.5.RELEASE. ↗ spring-projects/spring-data-relational
[5] Upgrade to Postgres R2DBC Driver 1.1.2.RELEASE. ↗ spring-projects/spring-data-relational
[6] Disable `JdbcAggregateTemplateSchemaIntegrationTests` for Oracle. ↗ spring-projects/spring-data-relational
[7] Upgrade to Gradle 9.7.0 spring-projects/spring-boot ↗
[8] Fix hostname verification failure in Elasticsearc smoke test spring-projects/spring-boot ↗
[9] GH-11194: Use simple confirms in `AmqpOutboundEndpoint` ↗ spring-projects/spring-integration
[10] Fix flaky RedisTests.testOutboundChannelAdapterFlow() ↗ spring-projects/spring-integration
[11] Fix flaky FileToChannelIntegrationTests.fileMessageToChannel() ↗ spring-projects/spring-integration
[12] GH-11253: Fix directory-creation race in `FileWritingMessageHandler` ↗ spring-projects/spring-integration