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 Bean-SR2, Apple-SR8, and 1.3.5 Released

Releases | January 15, 2019 | ...
This post was authored by Vedran Pavić On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session BOM Bean-SR2 (based on Spring Session 2.1.3.RELEASE), Apple-SR8 (based on 2.0.9.RELEASE), and 1.3.5.RELEASE. These maintenance releases bring a couple of bug fixes together with the usual dependency upgrades. Complete details of these releases can be found in the following changelogs: 2.1.3.RELEASE 2.0.9.RELEASE 1.3.5.RELEASE Project Page | Documentation | Issues | Gitter | Stack Overflow

Spring Session Bean-SR1 and Apple-SR7 Released

Releases | November 30, 2018 | ...
This post was authored by Vedran Pavić On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session BOM Bean-SR1 and Apple-SR7. These maintenance releases are based on Spring Session 2.1.2.RELEASE and 2.0.8.RELEASE, respectively, which bring a couple of bug fixes together with the usual dependency upgrades. Complete details of these releases can be found in the following changelogs: 2.1.2.RELEASE 2.0.8.RELEASE Project Page | Documentation | Issues | Gitter | Stack Overflow

Spring Security 5.1.2, 5.0.10, 4.2.10 Released

Releases | November 29, 2018 | ...
On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.2 (changelog), 5.0.10 (changelog), and 4.2.10 (changelog). This series of releases provides a round of bug fixes and users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release. Project Site | Reference | Help

Spring Session 1.3.4 Released

Releases | November 15, 2018 | ...
This post was authored by Vedran Pavić On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.3.4.RELEASE. This maintenance release contains several bug fixes and performance improvements. You can find the complete details of the release in the changelog. Project Page | Documentation | Issues | Gitter | Stack Overflow

Spring Session Bean GA Released

Releases | October 31, 2018 | ...
This post was authored by Vedran Pavić On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Session BOM Bean. This is the first release based on Spring Session 2.1 and can be easily consumed with freshly released Spring Boot 2.1. Please read on for the highlights of the release. Same-Site Cookie support for HttpSession integration Same-Site Cookie is another mechanism that helps developers to protect from Cross-Site Request Forgery. Our DefaultCookieSerializer has been enhanced to support adding SameSite attribute to session cookie produced by Spring Session…

Spring Security 5.1.1, 5.0.9, and 4.2.9 Released

Releases | October 16, 2018 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 5.1.1 (changelog) Spring Security 5.0.9 (changelog) and 4.2.9 (changelog) have been released. The releases primarily deliver bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements. The releases will be found in the upcoming Spring Boot maintenance releases coming this week. Project Site | Reference | Help

Spring Session Apple SR6 Released

Releases | October 16, 2018 | ...
On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Spring Session Apple SR6 is released. The release includes Spring Session 2.0.8.RELEASE (changelog). Project Site | Reference | Help

Spring Session BOM Bean-RC1 Released

Releases | September 24, 2018 | ...
This post was authored by Vedran Pavić On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session BOM Bean-RC1. This release is based on Spring Session 2.1.0.RC1 which resolves a total of 13 issues. Please read on for the highlights of the release. Support for Java 11 Spring Session now supports Java 11, while the required version of course stays at Java 8. Our CI pipeline has been enhanced so that the project is now continuously verified against Java 8, 10 and 11. Dependency Upgrades Spring Session 2.1.0.RC1 builds on the following latest and greatest releases of key…

Spring Session Bean-M1 and Apple-SR4 Released

Releases | August 17, 2018 | ...
This post was authored by Vedran Pavić On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session BOM Bean-M1 and Apple-SR4. Spring Boot users will be happy to learn that these release were picked up in recent 2.1.0.M1 and 2.0.4.RELEASE releases of Spring Boot, respectively. Spring Session Bean-M1 The Bean-M1 is first milestone release that is based on Spring Session 2.1.0.M1. The following table provides an overview of all the included modules and their respective versions: Module Version Spring Session Core 2.1.0.M1 Spring Session Data GemFire 2.0.3.RELEASE Spring…

Spring Security 5.1.0.M2 Released

Releases | July 30, 2018 | ...
On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.0.M2. This release comes with 100+ tickets closed. As always we look forward to hearing your feedback! You can find the highlights below: OAuth2 OAuth2 Resource Server Basic support for OAuth2 Resource Servers has been added. See oauth2resourceserver Authorization Code Flow User’s can now obtain an access token using the OAuth 2.0 Authorization Code grant. See the authcodegrant sample. WebClient and OAuth2 Support There is now built in support for OAuth2 and WebClient support. The support allows: Adding the…

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