It's my pleasure to announce that 1.0.0.RC1 of the Dependency Management Plugin has been released. It's available from Gradle's Plugin Portal as well as Maven Central and Bintray.

What's new?

The plugin's been rewritten in Java and its API has been formalised. A clear separation between that API and the plugin's internals has been introduced. This has required a few breaking changes but you are unlikely to be affected if you were using the Groovy DSL.

Converting to Java and formalising the API has also enabled a couple of enhancements:

### Official support for Gradle 3

Previously, the plugin was written in Groovy and attempted to support Gradle 1, 2, and 3. This proved to be overly ambitious. The two main problems were binary incompatibilities across the three different Groovy runtimes (1.8, 2.3, and 2.4) and breaking changes across the three versions of Gradle. To address these, the Gradle team's recommendation was to rewrite the plugin in Java and to drop support for Gradle 1.x. This release does just that, with the plugin's main code now being 100% Java and Gradle 2.9 now being the minimum supported version. As a result, Gradle 3.x is now officially supported and it should be easier to support new versions of…

We’re pleased to announce a release of Spring Statemachine 1.2.0.RELEASE. Artifacts are available either from Maven Central or from Spring Repository.

Let's see what we did for this initial 1.2.x release

• Usual bug fixes and small enhancements.
• Support for UML submachines.
• New Spring Data Repository abstraction keeping machine configurations in an external repository with built-in support for Redis, MongoDB and JPA.
• New samples.
• New support for state do actions.
• New monitoring and tracing API's.
• Initial support for Spring Boot auto-config.
• New transition and state error action concepts.

There's no changes from a final release candicate but full history is available from changelog…

We are pleased to announce the release of the first milestone of Reactor Kafka 1.0.0.

What is Reactor Kafka?

Reactor Kafka is a reactive API for Apache Kafka based on Project Reactor. Reactor Kafka API enables messages to be published to Kafka topics and consumed from Kafka topics using functional APIs with non-blocking back-pressure and very low overheads. This enables applications using Reactor to use Kafka as a message bus or streaming platform and integrate with other systems to provide an end-to-end reactive pipeline.

The value proposition for Reactor Kafka is the efficient utilization of…

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone for the 5.0 version of Spring Integration is now available.

This is a new major version, based on Spring Framework 5.0 and requires Java 8; this is the biggest change so far, but the following are also included:

• The Java DSL is now rolled into the framework itself; there are some minor changes to the DSL, such as the removal of the .handleWithAdapter() methods and some general Factory classes. A complete discussion of the DSL changes can be found in the Migration Guide.

• Upgrade to Spring Data Kay.

• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 2.0.

• First class support for TCP/UDP has been added to the DSL.

• Spring Integration is now based on Reactor 3.0 and Messaging Gateway Promise methods now have to be changed to return Mono.

• You can now configure mid-flow transactions via TransactionHandleMessageAdvice for adviceChain Messaging Annotations attribute and <transactional> sub-element when using XML configuration.

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We’re pleased to announce a release candicate of Spring Statemachine 1.2.0.RC1. Artifacts are available from Spring Repository.

What we got into this release:

• Usual bug fixes and small enhancements
• New api's for tracing and monitoring
• New monitoring sample
• Full repository config support for Redis, MongoDB and JPA
• Boot auto-config enhacements
• Lot of documentation enhacements

Full changes as usual are available from changelog. We're planning to fire up 1.2.0.RELEASE before xmas and possibly do a second release candicate if any major issues are found.

Thank you for all who have contributed in…

We are pleased to announce the first milestone of Spring AMQP 2.0 is now available.

For a complete list of changes; see the what’s new in the reference manual and the release notes.

Here are some highlights of this release

• The framework is now fully Java 8 based; several functional interfaces are provided for convenient Lambda implementations (callbacks, ReplyingMessageListener etc). Java 8 is now a requirement. It is also based on Spring Framework 5.0.

• The framework uses the new 4.0 amqp-client library.

• A new DirectMessageListenerContainer is now available alongside the existing SimpleMessageListenerContainer. The new container actually has a simpler architecture and the listener is called directly on the amqp-client thread (hence the name Direct…​). See Choosing a Container to help you decide which container is appropriate for your application.

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Brixton Service Release 7 and Camden Service Release 3 of Spring Cloud are available today. The releases can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

These releases include primarily bug fixes.

The following modules were updated as part of Brixton.SR7:

• Spring Cloud Config 1.1.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.1.7.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.0.11.RELEASE

The following modules were updated as part of Camden.SR3:

• Spring Cloud Commons 1.1.6.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Config 1.2.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.2.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Consul 1.1.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.1.0.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Contract 1.0.2.RELEASE
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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the GA release of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.1. Follow the links in the getting started guide to download the local server implementation and shell to create Stream and Tasks.

General highlights of the 1.1 GA Release include:

• Builds upon Spring Boot 1.4, Spring Cloud Camden SR2, Spring Integration 4.3 and Spring Cloud Task 1.1 release improvements.

• Adds LDAP, Basic and File based backend authentication

• Improvements to OAUTH backed authentication

• LDAP authentication is now supported with SSL

• Adds a form-based login page for non-OAUTH backend authentication methods such as the LDAP, Basic and File-based options

• Adds the ability to pass application specific properties via YAML file. This is particularly useful when deploying streams that require many deployment properties to be set.

• Portable deployment properties for memory, disk and cpu are in place for support across various runtime implementations.

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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the first milestone of the Kay release train. This is a special release train as it's going to ship a new generation of Spring Data that will include a couple of breaking changes going forward.

Infrastructure upgrades

The first and most noticeable change is the upgrade to Java 8 as a minimum baseline (no JDK 6 compatibility anymore) and an upgrade to Spring 5 as framework foundation. In subsequent milestones we're going to ship some significant internal rewrites that will also affect user facing API to make use of the new language…