On behalf of the community, I'd like to announce the general availability of Spring Vault 2.1. Spring Vault 2.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. The most notable changes of Spring Vault 2.1 are:

• Extending infrastructure-based authentication to support Google Cloud IAM and Azure Managed Service Identity.
• Integrating Vault’s versioned Key-Value backend.
• Wrapping API support.
• Java 11 compatibility.

This release is compatible with Vault versions from 0.5.2 up to 0.11.1.

Make sure to also check out our blog post that explains the new features in detail…

On behalf of the community, it is my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Security 5.1. This release closes off 50+ tickets.

Please check out the What’s New in Spring Security 5.1.

As always, we look forward to hearing your feedback!

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On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I’m pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.0.RC1 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository.

What’s new?

In this release, we worked mainly on making Spring Batch build and run correctly on Java 8, 9, 10 and 11! This release is based on Spring Framework 5.1 GA as well as the latest versions of Spring Integration, Spring AMQP and Spring Data. For a complete list of changes, please refer to the change log.

What’s next?

Our plan is to release Spring Batch 4.1 GA by the end of October right in time for Spring Boot 2.1 GA. The focus will be on making this release candidate as stable as possible so please help us by testing new features and submitting your feedback on JIRA, StackOverflow or Gitter. You can consume Spring Batch 4.1.0.RC1 with Spring Boot 2.1.0.M4…

After a decade of rolling out updates and improvements to the famous Spring Tool Suite and the Spring IDE components for Eclipse, a new era of Spring tooling starts today and we welcome you to the all-new Spring Tools 4. After an intensive period of public betas, we are happy to announce the first official release today.

Spring Tools 4 is a completely new set of tools for working with Spring projects in your favorite IDEs and editors. They are re-built from scratch with the goal in mind to provide the best support for implementing enterprise-grade applications based on Spring and Spring Boot…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am happy to announce that the fourth milestone of Spring Boot 2.1 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 40 issues and pull requests.

This milestone ships with the latest Spring Framework 5.1 which went GA last week.

Along with the Spring Framework update, this release also includes a bunch of other dependency version updates.

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.1 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started with 2.1 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io…

On behalf of Spring Integration team I’m pleased to announce Release Candidates for the Spring Messaging projects. Each is based on the recently released Spring Framework 5.1 GA, has upgraded dependencies and will be part of the upcoming Spring Boot 2.1 M4 - just in time for Spring One Platform!

The artifacts for these projects are available in the Spring Milestone repository.

Please, refer to the What’s New chapter in each Reference Manual for more information about new features and notable changers for each project mentioned below.

Spring AMQP

2.1.0.RC1 release notes.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session BOM Bean-RC1. This release is based on Spring Session 2.1.0.RC1 which resolves a total of 13 issues. Please read on for the highlights of the release.

Support for Java 11

Spring Session now supports Java 11, while the required version of course stays at Java 8. Our CI pipeline has been enhanced so that the project is now continuously verified against Java 8, 10 and 11.

Dependency Upgrades

Spring Session 2.1.0.RC1 builds on the following latest and greatest releases of key…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.1 is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now! Check out our recently updated docs...

• What's New in Spring Framework 5.1
• Upgrading to Spring Framework 5.1
• Our revised reference documentation

Spring Framework 5.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. It comes with initial refinements for GraalVM compatibility and deeply integrates with the recently released Reactor Californium and Hibernate ORM 5.3.

The core container introduces…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, it's my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Data Lovelace. This release train ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.1 GA. You can easily consume Spring Data Lovelace with next week's Spring Boot 2.1 M4 release. Spring Data Lovelace ships with a number of major features, improvements, and bugfixes. The most notable topics are:

• Support for immutable objects
• Deferred JPA repository initialization
• Support for MongoDB 4.0 Client Sessions and Transactions
• New Spring Data JDBC module
• Apache Cassandra mapping improvements for Map and tuple types, Lifecycle Callbacks, and Kotlin Extensions
• Replica Reads with Spring Data Redis
…