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 Test HtmlUnit 1.0.0 RC1 Released

Releases | May 14, 2015 | ...
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Test HtmlUnit 1.0.0 RC1. The highlights of the release can be found below: Migration Guide A detailed migration guide from 1.0.0.M2 to 1.0.0.RC1 was added. New Maven Coordinates We have changed the maven group id. For details refer to Updating Dependencies Default Context Path is "" Based upon community feedback, the default context path is now "". This means if you are using a previous release, you will need to update the URL that is configured. For details refer to Default Context Path is now "" MockMvc WebClient & WebDriver Builders This release…

Spring Security SAML 1.0.1 Released

Releases | May 05, 2015 | ...
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security SAML 1.0.1. This release is passive to 1.0.0 the highlights of which are: Added support for Spring Security 4.0 Added integration guide with Okta MaxAuthenticationAge time supports longer expiration times than 21 days Deployment without JKS keystore is now supported Service provider can now define multiple assertion consumer endpoints with same binding Minor fixes and documentation improvements Project Site | Documentation | Changelog

Spring LDAP 2.0.3 Released

Releases | April 30, 2015 | ...
I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.0.3.RELEASE. The highlights of this release include: LDAP-330 - Support for Spring Data Commons 1.10 (Spring Data Fowler) LDAP-304 - NullPointerException DirContextAdapter.collectModifications LDAP-314 - repository methods ignoring @Entity(base=) LDAP-317 - ldap:context-source/url not parsing properties #{} LDAP-321 - IllegalStateException: No value for key PoolingContextSource For additional information on the release, refer to the changelog. Project Site | Reference | Issues

Spring Security 4.0.1 Released

Releases | April 23, 2015 | ...
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.1.RELEASE. This release is the first maintenance release of the 4.0 line and focusses on fixing any major issues that were found in the new release. For complete details on the release, refer to the Change Log. Project Site | Reference | Guides

Spring Session 1.0.1 Released

Releases | April 16, 2015 | ...
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.0.1.RELEASE. You can find the release in Maven Central. This release fixes 30+ tickets. You can find the highlights below: Highlights The highlights of Spring Session 1.0.1 are available below: Support for AWS ElastiCache #124 Servlet 3.1 fixes #152. This resolves issues when running Spring Security and Spring Boot 1.2 Servlet 2.5 fixes #111 #182 Added Servlet 2.5 & XML based configuration sample and guide Embedded Redis used in Samples now works on Windows 64 bit #174 New Spring Session Logo #130 Site | Documentation | Javadoc | Issues…

Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.0.RC2 Released

Releases | April 02, 2015 | ...
On behalf of the Spring Security Kerberos team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.0.RC2. This release brings a number of changes. The highlights can be found below: Added support LdapContextSource. Special thanks to Nelson Rodrigues for this contribution! Repackaging for better management of dependencies Specific implementations are moved to their own packages to signal additional optional dependencies spring-security-kerberos-web now contains all of the web related dependencies (i.e. servlet dependencies) Bug fixes We’d love to hear back what people think by…

Spring Security 4.0.0 Released

Releases | March 26, 2015 | ...
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.0.RELEASE which closes over 175+ tickets. You can find the highlights below: WebSocket Support Spring Security 4 added WebSocket Support. It is now possible to use Spring Security with Spring's WebSocket support. Spring Data Integration Spring Security 4 added Spring Data Integration. It is now possible to refer to Spring Security's user within Spring Data queries using SpEL. Test Support Spring Security 4 has added Test Support. It is now much easier to write tests with Spring Security applications. More Secure by Default As exploits…

Spring Security 3.2.7 Released

Releases | March 26, 2015 | ...
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 3.2.7.RELEASE. This release brings a number of bug fixes including a fix for a regression in the Active Directory support. Project Site | Reference | Guides | Issues

Spring Security 3.2.6 Released

Releases | February 26, 2015 | ...
I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 3.2.6.RELEASE. This release contains some important fixes (many addressing Java Configuration and Spring Boot issues). You can find a complete list of changes in the changelog. Project Site | Reference | Guides | Issues

Spring Security 4.0.0.RC2 Released

Engineering | February 26, 2015 | ...
We are please to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.0.RC2. We were very keen on doing a GA release, but due to community feedback we decided that another RC was necessary. Ultimately, this release resolved nearly 50 tickets. A summary of changes can be seen below: Support for enforcing Same Origin for WebSocket connections Refinements in WebSocket Configuration (SEC-2827 SEC-2833 SEC-2853 ) More intuitive HTTP Response Headers Configuration (SEC-2846) Assuming everything goes smoothly, the plan is to do a GA release in approximately two weeks. In the meantime, make sure to try…

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