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
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.6 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse 2018-09 release
• added support for automatic and manual SSH tunneling to remote apps on CF for remote JMX access
• various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.6 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.7 M1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the highlights

• Improved UI

• Stream Application DSL

• Audit trail

• Concurrent Task Launch Limiting

• Stream and Task validation

• Force upgrade for Streams

Improved UI

The UI has a completely new look. The navigation has moved from tabs to a left side navigation system. This gives increased screen real estate for creating streams with the Flo designer and even more screen real estate can be obtained by minimizing the left…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.1 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes 117 issues and pull requests!

This third milestone aligns with Spring Framework 5.1.RC3.

Highlights in this release include:

• Kafka Streams support
• Support for non-web OAuth applications
• Improved conversion service integration
• Support for logging groups

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…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR13 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 1.7.10
• Spring Boot 1.5.16
• Spring Data Ingalls SR15
• Spring Framework 4.3.19
• Spring Security 4.2.8

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR4 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 2.0.6
• Spring Boot 2.0.6
• Spring Cloud Connectors 2.0.3
• Spring Data Kay SR10
• Spring Framework 5.0.9
• Spring Integration 5.0.8
• Spring Kafka 2.1.10
• Spring Security 5.0.8
• Spring Session Apple SR5

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.5 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 2.0.5 includes 87 fixes, improvements and dependency updates (including an important security fix for Spring AMQP). Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Security 5.0.8 (changelog) and 4.2.8 (changelog) have been released. The releases primarily deliver bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements. The releases will be found in the upcoming Spring Boot maintenance releases coming this week.

Project Site | 4.x Reference | 5.x Reference | Help

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.16 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.16 includes 27 fixes, improvements and dependency updates (including an important security fix for Spring AMQP). Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…