On behalf of the Spring Boot team, and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.
What's new in 1.5
Apache Kafka Support
Spring Boot 1.5 includes auto-configuration support for Apache Kafka via the spring-kafka project. To use Kafka simply include the spring-kafka dependency and configure the appropriate spring.kafka.* application…
It's my pleasure to announce that 1.0.0.RELEASE of the Dependency Management Plugin has been released. It's available from Gradle's Plugin Portal as well as Maven Central and Bintray. Thank you to everyone who tried out the release candidates.
Thank you for all of the feedback and suggestions that you have contributed to the plugin thus far. Please let us know on GitHub or Gitter about any problems you find or improvements that you'd like to see.
The plugin's been rewritten in Java and its API has been formalised. A clear separation between that API and the plugin's internals has been introduced. This has required a few breaking changes but you are unlikely to be affected if you were using the Groovy DSL.
Converting to Java and formalising the API has also enabled a couple of enhancements:
### Official support for Gradle 3
Previously, the plugin was written in Groovy and attempted to support Gradle 1, 2, and 3. This proved to be overly ambitious. The two main problems were binary incompatibilities across the three different Groovy runtimes (1.8, 2.3, and 2.4) and breaking changes across the three versions of Gradle. To address these, the Gradle team's recommendation was to rewrite the plugin in Java and to drop support for Gradle 1.x. This release does just that, with the plugin's main code now being 100% Java and Gradle 2.9 now being the minimum supported version. As a result, Gradle 3.x is now officially supported and it should be easier to support new versions of…
This release adopts a new alphabetical versioning scheme similar to those already used by Spring Cloud and Spring Data. The theme for the Platform’s versions is world cities.
The Athens release upgrades the versions of several projects:
It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.1.2.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.
This maintenance release includes a number of bug fixes and is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs users.