The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.0 M1 Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Hand in hand is the 2.0 M1 release of Spring Cloud Skipper which has been updated to depend upon Spring Boot 2.1. The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

Here are the highlights for Data Flow

• Stream deployment always delegates to Skipper

• Single server that runs on all supported platforms

• Update to Boot 2.1

• Standardize on OAuth2 and OpenID Connect for Security

• Update internals to use JPA

• UI improvements

• Task/Job Execution and Performance improvements

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NOTE: This is a guest post from our friends at Alibaba.

Hello everyone! Today, we’re very excited to announce that the 0.2.1.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Alibaba is available now.

Release highlights:

• Added two new modules to Spring Cloud Alibaba: spring-cloud-alibaba-schedulerx and spring-cloud-stream-binder-rocketmq.
• Added some new features in spring-cloud-alibaba-nacos and spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel.
• Fixed some bugs in the previous version.

Notes:

• The Spring Cloud Alibaba project is a community project maintained by Alibaba.

• The 0.2.1.RELEASE is compatible with Spring Cloud Finchley. Also included in this version is a 0.1.1.RELEASE, which is compatible with Spring Cloud Edgware. 0.1.1.RELEASE also contains the components and features that are new in 0.2.1.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

For a complete list of issues in this release across all projects see the project page on GitHub.

Spring Cloud Contract

• Added support for binary payloads (GH-818)

Spring Cloud Security

• Spring Cloud Gateway Filter added to support OAuth2 (GH-141). A sample application demonstrating its use is available here.
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.1.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse) updated to Eclipse 2018-12 release
• (Eclipse) live hovers now combine JavaDoc and live information from running boot apps
• (Eclipse) boot dashboard now shows live request mappings and beans for reactive web boot apps, too
• (Spring Boot) initial content-assist support for Spring Data repository definitions
• (CF Manifest) added support for new buildpacks attribute
• various bug fixes

To download the distribution for Eclipse…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.7 maintenance release of the Spring Tool Suite 3.

Highlights from this update release include:

• updated to Eclipse 2018-12 release
• added support for Buildship 3
• added full-blown embedded properties editor for boot launch configs
• boot dashboard now shows live request mappings and beans for reactive web boot apps, too
• various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite 3: https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all
• Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.7 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.1.0.M2 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's New?

Spring Cloud Task 2.1.0.M2 is intended to be the version of the framework aligned with Spring Boot 2.1.0. Updates from 2.1.0.M1 include:

• Update all dependencies.
• By popular demand, @EnableTask is back.
• Bug Fixes.

Let's walk through these updates in more detail.

@EnableTask is back

By popular demand, @EnableTask is back, with a twist! In this case, AutoConfiguration is still being used to create the TaskExplorer, TaskConfigurer, and other beans but does not create the TaskLifecycleListener (the bean that adds the Task Lifecycle to your application). The TaskLifecycleListener bean is created when a user adds the @EnableTask to…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information.

End of Life (EOL) Reminder

The Dalston release train will reach EOL status at the end of 2018.

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

This milestone is compatible with Spring Boot 2.1.1.RELEASE. Updates were made across the projects for Java 11 compatibility.

Go to the Greenwich.RC1 github project to see all…

It’s my pleasure to announce the first milestone of Spring Data R2DBC. Spring Data R2DBC is Spring's client project for R2DBC. With Spring Data R2DBC you get end to end reactive ad-hoc query execution and Spring Data repositories for relational databases.

Spring Data R2DBC embraces functional-reactive integration of relational databases by providing DatabaseClient as its central abstraction. The following example shows how to bootstrap DatabaseClient without spinning up a Spring context:

PostgresqlConnectionFactory connFactory = new PostgresqlConnectionFactory…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the first milestone of the Moore release train.

Notable changes include:

• Support for Streamable wrappers as query method return types.
• Additional Kotlin extensions like CrudRepository.findByIdOrNull(…).
• A Kotlin query DSL for MongoDB (special thanks to Tjeu Kayim)
• Gemfire & Apache Geode upgrades.
• Spatial type support for Neo4j.
• Elasticsearch REST and (initial) reactive client support.
• Support for Redis Streams.
• ...and tons of new stuff for Spring Data JDBC.

Please find a high-level overview of what has been added in our release wiki…