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A preview on Spring Data Kay

June 20, 2017

As we’ve just shipped the fourth milestone release of Spring Data release train Kay, let’s take a look at the changes and features that come with the 13 modules on the train since our first milestone. This blog post covers a set of changes but is no means comprehensive of the 550+ changes between M2 and M4. To get a full list of changes, take a look into our Jira for Kay M1, M2, M3, and M4 changes.

Here’s a curated list of our key changes:

Adjustments in the reactive support
Composable repositories
Improved naming scheme for CRUD methods
Fluent MongoOperations API
Kotlin extension for MongoDB’s Template API
MongoDB Collation Support
Redis client configuration
Cassandra Lightweight transaction support and Query/Update objects
Java 9 compatibility
Upgrade to Elasticsearch 5.4

This Week in Spring - June 20th, 2017

Engineering

Josh Long

June 20, 2017

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I’m in Krakow, Poland for the epic Devoxx PL event and then it’s off to Luxembourg for the VoxxedDays Luxembourg event! If you’re around, don’t hesitate to say hi

Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring Framework 5.0 RC2. The new release is a major revision of RC1, refactoring the reactive support and path pattern parsing. It introduces JSR 305 @Nullable annotations into the codebase.
Spring Data Release Train Kay M4 Released - Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just announced Spring Data Train Kay M4, packed with new features and updates. Get the bits now!
Spring IO Platform Athens-SR6 - Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson has just announced Spring IO Platform Athens-SR6, available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. The new maintenance release includes Spring Boot 1.4.7, Spring Framework 4.3.9, Sspring Integration 4.3.10, Spring REST Docs 1.1.3, Spring Seurity OAuth 2.0.14, Spring Web Flow 2.4.5, and Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.4, among many other things.
Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR3 - Not one to rest on his laurels, Andy also released Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR3, which includes updates a large number of supporting libraries. Get the bits now!
Spring Boot 2.0.0.M2 Available Now - Spring Boot ninja Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 2.0M2, following on Spring Framework RC2.
Spring Session 2.0.0 M2 Released - Spring Session lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Session 2.0.0.M2. The new release ensures compatability with Spring Framework 5.0.0.RC2 and Spring Data Kay-M4, both baselines for the new release.
Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 5.0. The new release includes improved reactive support Java configuration, and improved WebClient test support.
Greg Turnquist, now lead of Spring Session MongoDB, has just announced 2.0.0.M1
What if an application could automatically repel attackers by rotating its access credentials every day, thereby making every stolen password useless in a short amount of time? That’s the idea behind CredHub, a new feature introduced for Pivotal Cloud Foundry today. Read the rest of this VentureBeat article for more.
Dormain Drewitz chimes in with a look at some Secrets of successful Cloud Foundry users from the recent Cloud Foundry Summit
Jagdish Mirani looks at how HCSC uses Gemfire to help integrate legacy applications) in this post.
Mark Heckler looks at filtering HTTP requests by header type in this concise post
Get preview chapters of Duncan Winn’s new book on Cloud Foundry from DynaTrace
TechCrunch looks at Cloud Foundry’s dominance in the enterprise - One of the things I loved was the insight that more than half of the Fortune 500 are using Cloud Foundry - wow!
Tim Schimandle continues his series in this look at integrating an Angular 4 front end with his Spring Cloud backend.
Tim Schimandle also wrote a nice introduction to distributed tracing with Spring Cloud Sleuth and Zipkin in this post
Tim Schimandle looks securing Spring Cloud Services
Tim Schimandle looks at how Spring Cloud applications bootstrap in this nice post
Mark Heckler does a great job introducing the fantastic Spring Boot Actuator integrations in Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.1

Spring Integration 5.0 Milestone 5 Available

Releases

Artem Bilan

June 16, 2017

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the fifth milestone for the Spring Integration 5.0 release (5.0.0.M5) is now available.

21 JIRAs (and some GitHub issues) made into this release, including bug fixes and a number of new features. Some highlights of features in M4 and M5, since the previously announced Milestone 3:

The Splitter now can deal with the Java Stream and Reactor Flux payloads. If the output channel is a ReactiveStreamsSubscribableChannel, splitting supports back-pressure.
A ErrorMessagePublisher together with the ErrorMessageStrategy have been introduced to pursue better error handling experience with the inception message for the ErrorMessage. The MessageListenerContainer in Spring Kafka 2.0 and Spring AMQP 2.0 are supplied with their own ErrorMessageStrategy to represent the original data in the ErrorMessage for the error handling flow.
The new MockMessageHandler has been added to Spring Integration Test framework for replacing real `MessageHandler`s for unit testing:

Spring Session MongoDB 2.0.0.M1 released

Engineering

Greg Turnquist

June 16, 2017

Dear Spring Community,

Last month, Spring Session lead Rob Winch announced the release of Spring Session 2.0.0.M1 (notice the lack of MongoDB there?) In that post, he pared back Spring Session to officially supporting Redis, JDBC, and Hazelcast. No more MongoDB.

I’m here to announce that I’ve pick up the torch for Spring Session MongoDB. Managing both Spring Session and Spring Security (among other responsibilities), Rob couldn’t maintain high caliber support with too many data stores. Being a member of the Spring Data team, I felt better suited toward providing MongoDB support of Spring Session, so I reinstated it as a separate project.

Spring Security 5.0.0 M2 Released

Releases

Rob Winch

June 16, 2017

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0 M2. This release includes bug fixes, new features, and is based off of Spring Framework 5.0.0 RC2.

A complete example of using Spring Security to secure a Spring WebFlux application can be found in the Spring Security samples at hellowebflux and hellowebfluxfn.

The highlights of the release include:

Simplified Reactive Security Configuration
WebTestClient Support

Simplified Reactive Security Configuration

It is now very easy to setup a minimal Reactive Security Configuration. Add @EnableWebFluxSecurity and provide a UserDetailsRepository

Spring Session 2.0.0 M2 Released

Releases

Rob Winch

June 16, 2017

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2.0.0.M2. This release is focused primarily on ensuring compatibility with Spring Framework 5.0.0.RC2 and Spring Data Kay-M4 which is the minimum Spring version required.

We expect that Spring Session 2.0.0.M3 will have a new Java 8 friendly API along with Support for Spring WebFlux.

Supported Data Stores

As an update to our new story for supported repositories, we now have sub projects for Spring Session Geode (GemFire) and Spring Session MongoDB. You can find the Spring Session MongoDB release announcement here.

Spring Boot 2.0.0.M2 Available Now

Releases

Stéphane Nicoll

June 16, 2017

Shortly after Spring Framework 5.0 RC2, a second milestone of Spring Boot 2 is now available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 90 issues and pull requests, thanks to all that contributed!

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 2.0.0.M2 Release Notes on the WIKI and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started and discover those new feature, you can easily bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io

Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR3

Releases

Andy Wilkinson

June 15, 2017

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR3 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

Spring AMQP 1.7.3
Spring Boot 1.5.4
Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.4
Spring Data Ingalls SR4
Spring Framework 4.3.9
Spring Integration 4.3.10
Spring REST Docs 1.1.3
Spring Security 4.2.3
Spring Security OAuth 2.0.14
Spring Session 1.3.1
Spring Web Flow 2.4.5

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

Spring IO Platform Athens-SR6

Releases

Andy Wilkinson

June 15, 2017

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-SR6 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

Spring Boot 1.4.7
Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.4
Spring Data Hopper SR 11
Spring Framework 4.3.9
Spring Integration 4.3.10
Spring REST Docs 1.1.3
Spring Security OAuth 2.0.14
Spring Web Flow 2.4.5

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

As mentioned in the release announcement for Spring Boot 1.4.7, it is expected that it will be the last release in the 1.4 line. As a result, it is also expected that Athens-SR6 will be the last release of the Platform in the Athens line. If you haven’t already done so, we advise you to upgrade to Brussels as soon as possible.

Spring Data Release Train Kay M4 Released

Releases

Mark Paluch

June 14, 2017

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of the fourth Spring Data Kay milestone. This release ships 98 tickets fixed along with some notable changes like composable repositories, the fluent MongoDB collection operation API, Kotlin extension for MongoDB, and much more.

This milestone is going to be picked up by Spring Boot 2.0 M2 and we’re heading towards a release candidate within the next month. We’ll publish a follow-up blog post with an in-depth discussion of the new features added to the milestone in the upcoming days.

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