On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 2.1

Third-party library upgrades

We’ve upgraded to the latest stable releases of other third-party libraries wherever possible. Some notable dependency upgrades in this release include:

• Hibernate 5.3
• Micrometer 1.1
• Reactor Californium
• Spring Data Lovelace
• Spring Framework 5.1
• Tomcat 9
• Undertow 2
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Hi! Today, we're very excited to announce the first preview release of Spring Cloud Alibaba.

The Spring Cloud Alibaba project, consisting of Alibaba's open-source components and several Alibaba Cloud products, aims to implement and expose well known Spring Framework patterns and abstractions to bring the benefits of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud to Java developers using Alibaba products.

NOTE: The Spring Cloud Alibaba project is a community project maintained by Alibaba.

NOTE: Version 0.2.0.RELEASE is compatible with the Spring Boot 2.0.x line. Version 0.1.0.RELEASE is compatible with the…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.2 is available now.

This maintenance release of the 5.1 line includes 30 fixes and improvements.

After its Milestone and RC phase, Spring Boot 2.1.0 GA will be released this week, shipping with this new Spring Framework version!

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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Lovelace SR2 maintenance release. This release builds on the just-released Spring Framework 5.1.2 service release. Lovelace SR2 is the version that you will get with Spring Boot 2.1 GA that is scheduled for the next few days. If you use Spring Boot 2.0.x and want to consume this service release, you can set the version property (spring-data-releasetrain.version) to Lovelace-SR2.

This service releases ships with 32 tickets fixed.

To round things off, here are the links to the individual changelogs, documentation…

I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 2.2.0.RELEASE is now available.

While the 2.1.x release is compatible with the 2.0.0 kafka-clients jar, (since 2.1.9), this version requires 2.0.0 (and provides a 2.0.0 embedded broker for testing).

Highlights

• The SeekToCurrentErrorHandler can now "skip" records that fail repeatedly

• Such "skipped" records can be published to a dead-letter topic (or otherwise disposed of by application code)

  • Headers are added with diagnostics about the failure

• When using transactions, the same functionality can be achieved with the default AfterRollbackProcessor

• You can now use the listener container factory to create any arbitrary listener container, not just containers for @KafkaListener s

  • This allows more convenient use of Spring Boot’s auto configuration properties for any container

• @KafkaListener annotations can now override the container factory’s concurrency and autoStartup properties

  …

On behalf of Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the 5.1.0.RELEASE for the Spring Integration is available.

It can be downloaded from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.1.0.RELEASE"

First of all I would like to thank all community members for their ongoing active contributions to the framework!

Besides the regular dependencies upgrades, bug fixes and internal performance improvements here are some notable new features introduced in this version:

BoundRabbitChannelAdvice

For strict ordering of messages publishing a BoundRabbitChannelAdvice can be used as a MessageHandler advice to allow to perform all the downstream AMQP operations in the same thread-bound Channel…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.0.RELEASE is now available.

What's New in Spring Batch 4.1 GA

This release adds the following features:

• A new @SpringBatchTest annotation to simplify testing batch components
• A new @EnableBatchIntegration annotation to simplify remote chunking and partitioning configuration
• Support for reading and writing data in JSON format
• Support for validating items with the Bean Validation API
• Support for JSR-305 annotations
• Enhancements to the FlatFileItemWriterBuilder API

@SpringBatchTest Annotation

Spring Batch provides some nice utility classes (such as the JobLauncherTestUtils and JobRepositoryTestUtils) as well as test execution listeners (StepScopeTestExecutionListener and JobScopeTestExecutionListener) to test batch components. However, in order to use these utilities, you must configure them explicitly. This release introduces a new annotation named @SpringBatchTest…

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.7.0. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes. Look for an updated Cloud Foundry Tile for SCDF release in the coming weeks.

Here are the highlights

• Improved UI

• Stream Application DSL

• Audit trail

• Concurrent Task Launch Limiting

• Stream and Task validation

• Force upgrade for Streams

• Task Scheduling on Kubernetes

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…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that SR2 (Service Release) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Support WebFlux error handling in Hystrix timeouts #553
• Read multiple certificates in PEM file #583
• Support for configuring TLS timeouts #578
• ModifyRequestBodyGatewayFilterFactory updates headers appropriately #492
• Support relative redirects in redirect filter #468
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud…