Rob Winch

Rob Winch

Rob Winch is employed by VMware as the project lead of security related projects within Spring. He is also a committer on the core Spring Framework and co-author for Spring Security LiveLessons and a Spring Security book. In the past he has worked in the health care industry, bioinformatics research, high performance computing, and as a web consultant. When he is not sitting in front of a computer he enjoys cycling with his friends.

Recent Blog posts by Rob Winch

Spring Session 1.2.0 RC3 Released

Engineering | April 28, 2016 | ...
On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.2.0.RC3. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone Repository (https://repo.spring.io/milestone/). This release contains some fixes for the previous release. Some highlights of the issues in this release include: JDBC Support persists session attributes on a separate table. This was in response to the community feedback (thanks!) Redis Session optimization Preparations for improved Spring Boot auto configuration Updated to Spring Data Hopper See What's New in 1.2 for more details. Our Community Support…

Spring Security 4.1.0.RC2 Released

Releases | April 21, 2016 | ...
On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.0.RC2. This release resolved over 60 tickets. What's New in 4.1 You can find a good summary of What's New in Spring Security 4.1 in the reference documentation. Contributions Without the community we couldn't be the successful project we are today. I'd like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback. A special thanks to the following people who provided pull requests for this release: #51 - SEC-1932 Add Pbkdf2PasswordEncoder Thanks Rob Worsnop #180 - Allow setting alwaysRemember from…

Spring Session 1.2.0 RC2 Released

Releases | April 07, 2016 | ...
On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.2.0.RC2. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone Repository (https://repo.spring.io/milestone/). This release contains some fixes for the previous release. Some highlights of the issues in this release include: A number of fixes for the JDBC support have been included A new Grails 3 Sample See What's New in 1.2 for more details. Our Community Support As always, I'd like to thank our awesome community for their contributions. A very big thanks to those who submitted Pull Requests: #436 - Use Flapdoodle…

Spring LDAP 2.1.0.RC1 Released

Releases | March 31, 2016 | ...
I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.1.0.RC1. The highlights of this release include: #380 - Support for Spring Data Hopper #384 - Early support for Spring IO Platform 2.1 #351 - Support for commons-pool2 #370 - Support property placeholders in XML Namespace #392 - Document Testing Support Migrated from JIRA to GitHub Issues Added Gitter Chat For complete details of 2.1 refer to the changelog Contributions Without the community we couldn't be the successful project we are today. I'd like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback. A special thanks to the…

Spring Security 4.1.0.RC1 Released

Releases | March 24, 2016 | ...
On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.0.RC1. This release resolved over 100 tickets. You can find some of the highlights below: Path Variables in Web Security Expressions Content Security Policy (CSP) HTTP Public Key Pinning (HPKP) Added ForwardAuthenticationFailureHandler & ForwardAuthenticationSuccessHandler SCrypt support with SCryptPasswordEncoder Simplified UserDetailsService Java Configuration Simplified AuthenticationProvider Java Configuration Moved to GitHub issues Test Meta Annotations Method Security Meta Annotations Contributions…

Spring Security SAML 1.0.2 Released

Releases | March 21, 2016 | ...
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security SAML 1.0.2. Among other things, this release provides a critical update that resolves Deadlock in MetadataManager. Updating is recommended for everyone. Project Site | Documentation | Changelog

Spring Session 1.2.0 RC1 Released

Releases | March 17, 2016 | ...
On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.2.0.RC1. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone repository (https://repo.spring.io/milestone). Change Log This release includes nearly 30 issues with some exciting new features. You can find a complete list of changes in the change log. The highlights can be found in What's New in 1.2 Contributions I continue to be amazed with the growing Spring Session community. It is because of our community that we were able to do this release within a month of 1.1.0 going GA. A special thank you to all those who…

Spring Session 1.1.1 Released

Releases | March 17, 2016 | ...
On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.1.1.RELEASE. The release can be found in Maven Central. Change Log This release includes a number of minor fixes and upgrade is recommended for anyone currently using Spring Session. You can find details of the fixes in the changelog Site | Documentation | Issues | Help

Spring Security 4.0.4 Released

Releases | February 26, 2016 | ...
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.4.RELEASE. This release is the fourth maintenance release of the 4.0 line. It provides minor fixes along with a fix for backwards compatibility of Spring Framework 4.1.x. For complete details on the release, refer to the Change Log. Project Site | Reference | Guides

Spring Session 1.1.0 Released

Releases | February 25, 2016 | ...
On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.1.0.RELEASE. The release can be found in Maven Central. Change Log With over 80 issues resolved, there is plenty found in this release. You can find a complete list of changes in the change logs (1.1.0.M1, 1.1.0.RC1, 1.1.0.RELEASE). A summary of the changes can be found below: Support for Hazelcast. Thanks @_mark_a and @tommyludwig! Support for GemFire Thanks to John Blum! Support for search for session by username Support Customize Cookie Creation. Thanks to everyone who provided PRs and feedback for this…

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