Spring LDAP 4.2.0-M1 available now

Releases | Josh Cummings | September 24, 2026 | 1 min read | ...

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring LDAP 4.2.0-M1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 33 enhancements, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades, and bug fixes. Notable new features include:

  • DirContextAdapter post-processing support for LdapClient
  • Remove-by-value customization support

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-ldap tag.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow

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