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 Security 5.6.0 Released

Engineering | November 16, 2021 | ...
On behalf of the community, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Security 5.6. This release is the result of the work that went into 5.6.0-M1, 5.6.0-M2, 5.6.0-M3, 5.6.0-RC1, and 5.6.0. You can find the highlights of 5.6 in the What’s new section of the Spring Security reference. As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback! Project Site | Reference | Help

Spring LDAP 2.3.4 released

Releases | May 14, 2021 | ...
On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.3.4! This release fixes including a fix where Spring LDAP breaks on JDK9+. You can find the complete details in the release notes.

Spring Security 5.5.0-RC2 released

Releases | May 03, 2021 | ...
On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.5.0-RC2! After releasing 5.5.0-RC1 we received some feedback on our APIs that required further refinements. This release finalizes the APIs for the 5.5.0 release later this month. You can find the complete details in the release notes.

Spring Security 5.4.4, 5.3.8, and 5.2.9 released

Releases | February 12, 2021 | ...
On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.4.4 (release notes), 5.3.8 (release notes), and 5.2.9 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release. Project Site | Reference | Help NOTE: There was an issue releasing 5.4.3 and 5.3.7 which caused us to need to release 5.4.4 and 5.3.8.

Spring Security 5.4.1, 5.3.5, 5.2.7, 5.1.13, 5.0.19, 4.2.19 Released

Releases | October 08, 2020 | ...
On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.5 (release notes), 5.2.7 (release notes), 5.1.13 (release notes) , 5.0.19 (release notes), 4.2.19 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release. Project Site | Reference | Help

Spring Security 5.3.3, 5.2.5, 5.1.11, 5.0.17, 4.2.17 Released

Engineering | June 03, 2020 | ...
On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.3 (release notes), 5.2.5 (release notes), 5.1.11 (release notes) , 5.0.17 (release notes), 4.2.17 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release. Project Site | Reference | Help

Spring Security OAuth2 Auto-config 2.3.0.RC1, 2.2.7, 2.1.14 Released

Engineering | May 11, 2020 | ...
On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security OAuth2 Auto-config 2.3.0.RC1 (release notes), 2.2.7.RELEASE (release notes), 2.1.14.RELEASE (release notes). The release delivers dependency updates to be compatible with the last versions of Spring Boot. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release. Project Site | Reference | Help

Spring Security 5.3.2, 5.2.4, 5.1.10, 5.0.16, 4.2.16 Released

Releases | May 07, 2020 | ...
UPDATE 2020-05-13: The following versions of Spring Security address CVE-2020-5407 and CVE-2020-5408 On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.2 (release notes), 5.2.4 (release notes), 5.1.10 (release notes) , 5.0.16 (release notes), 4.2.16 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release. Project Site | Reference | Help

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