On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Ingalls SR13 and Kay SR8 service releases. The Ingalls service release ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 4.3.18 and in preparation of the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.14 release. The Kay service release picks up Spring Framework 5.0.7 and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.0.3, for your convenience.

Both releases ship with 119 tickets fixed in total and are recommended upgrades to all users of the Ingalls and Kay release trains. You can find all details within the linked changelogs.

Ingalls SR 13

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.13 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.13 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.13 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.13 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.13 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.13 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.13 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.13 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Security 5.0.6 (changelog) and 4.2.7 (changelog) have been released. The releases primarily delivers bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements. The releases will be found in the upcoming Spring Boot maintenance releases coming later this week.

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On behalf of the Spring Cloud team, it is my pleasure to announce a new milestone release of Spring Cloud Pipelines - 1.0.0.M8.

What’s new?

This release adds a lot of new features and quality and testing improvements. As for main features, we’ve added support for a project with multiple modules, and for mono-repos (projects with standalone application sources in it). As for quality and testing, we’re approaching 200 Bash tests (we’ve written missing tests for the Concourse pipeline). We’ve started publishing the project’s sources as a downloadable artifact. That way instead of cloning the repo or downloading the ~25mb archive, you can fetch around 150kb of sources. The docs for 1.0.0.M8…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Framework 5.0.7 and 4.3.18 maintenance releases are available now.

Spring Framework 5.0.7 includes 39 fixes and selected improvements while Spring Framework 4.3.18 includes 15 fixes and selected improvements. Those are the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0.3 and 1.5.14 maintenance releases later this week.

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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the 1.5.1 GA release. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

This is a bug fix release. The server improves the handling of special characters in stream definitions and passing of comma delimited strings in the Task launch argument list. It should be used with Skipper 1.0.5.RELEASE. The UI has been improved to support stream update functionality.

As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub or via Gitter.

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0.5 GA

Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

This is primarily a bug fix release. Significant changes since the 1.0 GA release are:

• Improved state management by simplifying objects that are serialized by the state machine.

• Improved handling of timeout during upgrade and rollback.

• Package upgrades can now be cancelled.

• Improved escaping of special characters in generated YAML.

• Upgraded deployer libraries to latest versions.

• Update to Spring Shell 2.0.1.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.0.M1 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release!

What's new?

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Simplify testing
• Simplify remote chunking
• Add a new JSON item reader

Simplify Testing

Spring Batch provides some nice utility classes (such as the JobLauncherTestUtils and JobRepositoryTestUtils) and test execution listeners (StepScopeTestExecutionListener and JobScopeTestExecutionListener) to test batch components. However, in order to use these utilities, you…

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

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

Finchley.RC2 is based on Spring Boot 2.0.2.

Spring Cloud Task

• Release Announcement

Spring Cloud Config

• Supports skipping SSL validation for Git and Vault repositories
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Bus

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Spring Cloud Netflix Turbine Stream now uses WebFlux
• Bug Fixes
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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the third milestone of the Lovelace release train.

This release ships with updates for all store modules that contain new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Notable changes include:

• Revised documentation.
• Annotation based auditing for the JDBC module. (DATAJDBC-204)
• Synchronous and reactive transaction support in preparation for the MongoDB 4.0 release. (DATAMONGO-1920 & DATAMONGO-1970)
• Reactive Map/Reduce abstractions for MongoDB. (DATAMONGO-1890)
• Enhancements to the Lucene index support in Spring Data Gemfire and for Apache Geode. (SGF-739 & DATAGEODE-101)
• Reactive pub/sub for Spring Data Redis. (DATAREDIS-612)
• Kotlin extensions for Spring Data Cassandra. (DATACASS-484)
• …