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How to get STS/Eclipse running on macOS High Sierra (10.13)

September 21, 2017

The new version of macOS called High Sierra (10.13) will soon go GA and we expect many of our STS/Eclipse users and Spring developers will upgrade their machines sooner than later. In case you have your system running with an English locale, you are fine and everything will be good.

If you are running your system with a different language configured, you will see all menu items of Eclipse or STS being disabled after the upgrade to macOS High Sierra.

The good news is: you can quickly get this fixed without waiting for an update of Eclipse or STS. Go into the Eclipse.app or STS.app package, move into the “Contents” folder, and edit the Info.plist file (with a text editor of your choice). Scroll down to the list of locales and remove everything from that list except for the “en” entry. Save the file, exit your text editor, and you are good again.

Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR5

Releases

Andy Wilkinson

September 19, 2017

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR5 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 1.7.4
Spring Boot 1.5.7
Spring Data Ingalls SR7
Spring Framework 4.3.11
Spring Integration 4.3.12
Spring Loaded 1.2.8
Spring Web Flow 2.4.6

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

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

This Week in Spring - September 19th, 2017

Engineering

Josh Long

September 19, 2017

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I’ve been visiting the Spring and Cloud Foundry teams at Microsoft (this time, in Redmond, WA) and then it’s off to San Francisco, CA and San Antonio, TX to visit some customers. So, with that, let’s get to it!

I loved this Pivotal Engineering post on how we transitioned Pivotal Web Services, our hosted, multitenant installation of Cloud Foundry, to CredHub. CredHub is designed to store passwords, keys, certificates, and other sensitive information for a BOSH-managed environment.
Spring Boot ninja Brian Clozel just announced Spring Boot 1.5.7 which includes scores of fixes, dependency updates, and improvements.
Spring Integration lead and messaging ninja Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP 2.0 RC1. The RC1 adds some minor improvements since the last milestone. Gary also announced that maintenance releases 1.7.4 and 1.6.11 are also available now.
Not one to sit on his laurels, Gary also announced Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 and 1.3 release candidates. Both releases support the Kafka 0.11.x.x client, while still supporting Spring Framework 4.3. The new release includes support for Spring Framework’s transaction synchronization, a KafkaAdmin object, and correct handling of AckMode.RECORD. Also, these releases includes several bug fixes.
Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 5. M7 and 4.3.12. The new release extracts out the reactive Spring Webflux adapter into a separate module, spring-integration-webflux. It also supports encoding message headers in the payload of a message for protocols - like AWS Kinesis, early versions of Apache Kafka, and TCP/IP - that don’t support the notion of headers natively.
Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announcced Spring Cloud Stream Ditmars/1.3 RC1. The new supports working with Kafka Streams KStream references as inputs and outputs to @StreamListener methods. Put another way: you can use Spring Cloud Stream to connect your application, declare all the bindings and so on, just as normal, and then write messaging code that taps Kafka Streams for interactive queries.
Spring Boot committer Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 2.0.0.M4. This release is the first to include the new web-runtime agnostic Actuator endpoints as well a raft of changes to simplify security configuration.
Spring Session lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Session 2.0.0.M4. This release eases configuration for Spring WebFlux-based applications. It also supports a strategy for session ID resolution.
Spring ninja Greg Turnquist just announced Spring Session MongoDB 2.0.0.M3. The new release builds on Spring Session 2.0.0.M4, Spring Data Kay RC3, Reactor Bismuth-M4, and Spring Framework 5.0.0.RC4. If you’re using Spring Boot 2.0’s spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb-reactive, then all you’ll need is @EnableMongoWebSession!
Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 5.0.0.M4. This release is full of great new features including OAUth 2 / OpenID Connect support and a reactive integration for Spring WebFlux.
Spring web guru Rossen Stoyanchev just announced Spring Web Flow 2.4.6. The release includes a security fix that affects default bindings.
Spring Cloud Data Flow contributor Eric Bottard just announced Spring Shell 2.0.M1! The Spring Shell project surfaces a command component model to support developing custom shells. Spring Shell is the project that underpins, for example, the Spring Cloud Data Flow shell. This new release has a lot to offer including positional parameters, use of the Spring conversion API, JLine 3 support, integration with the bean validation API, multi-line commands, and much more.
Simon Baslé just announced Reactor 3.1 RC1. This is a huge step on the road to Spring Framework 5.0. Users are strongly encouraged to grab the bits and try things out ASAP!
Spring Cloud Data Flow contributor Glenn Renfro announced the 1.3.0.M2 release, packed with great new features. It includes an updated Dashboard/Flo integration supporting batch, task and streaming operations; fan-in and fan-out support; application registry and Maven update policies; security updates; direct named channels; shell improvements and much more.
Spring Boot ninja Madhura Bhave looks at the ways that Spring Boot 2.0.0.M4 improves its integration with Spring Security; this is definitely worth a read!
Tom Hombergs does a good job looking at messaging for microservices with Spring Boot and RabbitMQ.
Another friendly reminder that I’ll be speaking at the Reactive Summit event on Reactive Spring and I hope to see you there!
A friendly reminder that I’ll be speaking at Kotlin Conf on Spring Boot and Kotlin in December and I’d love to see you there.
Damith Ganegoda does a nice job introducing Spring Boot and Angular 4 in this blog post.
The Ordina JWorks blog has a great look at the new Micrometer monitoring abstraction (which is also integrated in Spring Boot 2.0.0.M4).
Atomist’s Clay McCoy looks at how Atomist can help you catch breaking REST API changes in your Spring Boot application.
I liked this post on ZDNet on Greenplum, big data’s best kept secret
Speaking of Spring Boot committer and all around amazing human Madhura BHave, she also put together a nice look at what’s coming in Spring Boot 2.0 for her JavaZone 2017 presentation.
I like Dan’s post that introduces the concepts of hypermedia and HATEOAS, in particular, and does so with some sample code based on Spring Boot and Spring HATEOAS.
Facebook and Github have just announced Atom IDE - a new IDE that, apparently, supports Java. I haven’t had a chance to try it yet but it looks interesting. I wonder if it’ll have Maven or Gradle support..

Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0.M2 released

Releases

Glenn Renfro

September 18, 2017

We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0. M2 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow and its associated ecosystem of projects.

Local Server: Getting Started Guide.

Dashboard / Flo

In this second installment of 1.3 release of Dashboard/Flo, we have addressed the core functionalities backing the streaming and task/batch operations.

Continuing the Angular4 based infrastructure upgrades, the streaming and task/batch workflows now include the modern look and feel and are packed with usability improvements as well.

Announcing First Release Candidate of Reactor Core 3.1

Releases

Simon Baslé

September 18, 2017

On behalf of the Reactor team, it is my pleasure to announce that reactor-core 3.1.0.RC1 has been released 🎉. This is a big last step towards GA release of 3.1 at the end of the month, the long term support version that will back Spring 5!

It is also complemented by various releases, all tied together in the Bismuth-M4 Release Train and BOM:

reactor-test, reactor-extra, reactor-adapter and reactor-logback all made the cut to 3.1.0.RC1
reactor-netty has seen significant updates and bug fixes in the new 0.7.0.M2 milestone
reactor-kafka has been released in its 1.0.0.M4 milestone

Introducing Spring Shell 2.0M1!

Releases

Eric Bottard

September 18, 2017

We are pleased to announce the first release milestone of Spring Shell 2.x!

Two years in the making, Spring Shell 2 is a complete rewrite of Spring Shell, leveraging newer components (such as JLine 3) and applying better modularization. Spring Shell 2 is also built with Spring Boot in mind, making use of auto configuration and other boot features.

The internal architecture now uses a pluggable model to discover what methods to turn into commands, how to parse user input into argument values and how to handle return values. This is very similar to the approach taken by Spring MVC for example and allows extensions of the framework in ways that were not previously possible. Users of Spring Shell would typically not care though, only dealing with the new “standard” command API to define their commands.

Spring Web Flow 2.4.6 released

Releases

Rossen Stoyanchev

September 15, 2017

Spring Web Flow 2.4.6 was released earlier today containing a security fix. Applications that use explicit data bindings through the <binder> element in flow definitions are not affected. Those that do rely on default bindings should upgrade as soon as possible.

Spring Session MongoDB 2.0.0.M3 released

Engineering

Greg Turnquist

September 15, 2017

Dear Spring Community,

Spring Session MongoDB 2.0.0.M3 is released. It is based on:

In this release, several new features have been added to simplify using it with your Spring WebFlux application.

@EnableMongoWebSession
public class SpringWebFluxConfig {

}

All you must do is apply the @EnableMongoWebSession to any of your Spring configuration classes to activate session support with MongoDB. Additionally, you must provide a ReactorMongoOperations Spring bean, but if you’re using Spring Boot’s spring-boot-starter-data-mongodb-reactive starter, this is already provided.

Spring Security 5.0.0 M4 Released

Releases

Rob Winch

September 15, 2017

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0 M4. This release includes bug fixes, new features, and is based off of Spring Framework 5.0.0 RC4. You can find complete details in the changelog. The highlights of the release include:

OAuth2 / OIDC
Reactive Security

Spring Session 2.0.0 M4

Releases

Rob Winch

September 15, 2017

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2.0.0.M4. This release is focused primarily on refining WebFlux support. The highlights are:

Simplified WebFlux Configuration

Configuring Spring Session for WebFlux is simplified to be:

@Configuration
@EnableSpringWebSession
public class HelloWebfluxSessionConfig {

  @Bean
  public MapReactorSessionRepository reactorSessionRepository() {
    return new MapReactorSessionRepository(new ConcurrentHashMap<>());
  }
}

You can also switch the strategy for resolving session id’s by simply adding a WebSessionIdResolver Bean. For example, to switch from using cookies to resolve the session id to using headers, you can use Spring Framework’s new HeaderWebSessionIdResolver:

@Bean
public HeaderWebSessionIdResolver webSessionIdResolver() {
  return new HeaderWebSessionIdResolver();
}

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