On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Ingalls SR14 and Kay SR9 release. Kay SR9 ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.0.8. Spring Boot 2.0.4 is going to pick up Kay SR9 for your convenience. Ingalls SR14 will be picked up by Spring Boot 1.5.15. Both releases ship with mostly bugfixes and a few dependency upgrades.

Ingalls SR14 ships with 28 tickets fixed and Kay SR9 contains 59 tickets fixed.

To round things off, here are the links to the changelogs, documentation, and artifacts:

Ingalls SR14

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that a feature-complete Spring Framework 5.1 release candidate is available from our milestone repository now! Find a comprehensive list of new features and refinements and corresponding upgrade notes on our GitHub wiki.

Spring Framework 5.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. We strongly recommend an upgrade to 5.1 for any applications targeting JDK 11, delivering a warning-free experience on the classpath as well as the module path. Beyond that, initial refinements for GraalVM…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, it is my pleasure to announce the availability of the Lovelace RC1 release. The first release candidate ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.1 RC1 and in preparation of the upcoming Spring Boot 2.1 M1 release.

This release candidate ships with 194 tickets fixed and contains the following notable changes:

• Support for immutable objects.
• Upgrade of Querydsl for MongoDB to use the Document API, letting you publish lifecycle events and participation in managed transactions.
• Reactive Slice query support for Apache Cassandra.
• Kotlin extension for Apache Cassandra.
• Reactive SCAN support for Redis.
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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.0.8 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.0.8 includes 40 fixes and selected improvements and is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0.4 release next week.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 5.0.7 (changelog) has been released. The release 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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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.6 RC1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the release highlights:

PCF Scheduler

The Pivotal Cloud Foundry implementation of Scheduler improved on a few fronts to enhance the developer experience. Validation of the cron-expression and proactive measures to prevent the scheduler service from creating incorrect schedules is now part of this release.

Dashboard

The stream deployment history is available for review from the Dashboard. It is convenient to review the context…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.5.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 2.0.2.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 4 bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users.

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I am pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 1.0.6.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, Bintray, and the Gradle Plugin Portal. This maintenance release fixes four issues.

For Spring Boot users, the new version will be included in the Spring Boot 1.5.15 and 2.0.4 releases. For all other users of the plugin, 1.0.6 is a recommended manual upgrade.