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…

We're please to announce the release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.1.0. This release supports additions and changes in the Open Service Broker API v2.14. This release includes:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.0.7.RELEASE
• Support for asynchronous service instance binding and unbinding
• Support providing an updated dashboard_url when updating a service instance
• Resolves issues with deserializing the model objects that were converted to the builder pattern
• Adds a convenience property to the various request objects for accessing the Plan for the specified ServiceDefinition

Include the following…

We're please to announce the release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.0.0.M3. This 3.0 release will support Spring WebFlux and a reactive programing model, as well as additions and changes in the Open Service Broker API v2.14. This release includes:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.1.1.RELEASE (previously built against Spring Boot 2.0)
• Adds a convenience property to the various request objects for accessing the Plan for the specified ServiceDefinition

Include the following Spring Boot starter:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-open…

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…

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 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…

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…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.6.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 handful of bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 1.x users.

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It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.3.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 small number of fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users.

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