2.5.0-RC1

⭐ New Features

• Change build to use GPG_PRIVATE_KEY_NO_HEADER #1812
• Resolve artifacts from Maven Central first #1778
• Add manual trigger to CI workflow #1777

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Fix Redis session expiration entry deletion #1800
• Should throw an IllegalStateException when creating a session after the response body is committed #1798
• Hazelcast unit tests are dependent on ordering #1787
• RedisSessionExpirationPolicy onDelete should delete "expires" key #585

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Update to gradle 6.8.1 #1785
• Upgrade samples to Spring Boot 2.4.4 #1822
• Upgrade Hazelcast 4 to 4.2 #1821
• Upgrade Hazelcast to 3.12.12 #1820
• Upgrade Spring Security to 5.5.0-RC1 #1819
• Upgrade Spring Data to 2021.0.0-RC1 #1818
• Upgrade Spring Framework to 5.3.5 #1817
• Upgrade Reactor to 2020.0.6 #1816

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

• @swurzinger