Hot on the heels of the latest Spring Framework 5 release candidate, Spring Boot 2.0 M4 is now available from our milestone repository. This release closes 150 issues and pull requests and is a major step towards 2.0 GA. Thanks to all that contributed!

This milestone provides a host of minor tweaks and enhancements along with three major changes:

• A new Actuator endpoint infrastructure
• An overhaul of security
• Micrometer metrics support

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 2.0.0.M4 Release Notes on the WIKI. We are a bit behind with regards to updating the reference documentation, so please consider using the snapshot version…

Spring Web Flow 2.4.6 was released earlier today containing a security fix. Applications that use explicit data bindings through the <binder> element in flow definitions are not affected. Those that do rely on default bindings should upgrade as soon as possible.

We are pleased to announce that the release candidate Spring Cloud Stream Ditmars.RC1 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository. The release notes include relevant information about version compatibility with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring AMQP, and Spring for Apache Kafka.

Kafka Streams for Apache Kafka

This release targets the promotion of Kafka Streams for Apache Kafka support as a top-level project in the Apache Kafka binder implementation. With Kafka Streams for Apache Kafka positioned as a first-class citizen, developers can now build Spring Cloud Stream applications by…

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 7 for the Spring Integration 5.0 version (5.0.0.M7) is now available.

It is available for download from the Milestone Repository:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone' }
}
compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.0.0.M7"

21 JIRAs (and some GitHub issues) made into this release, including bug fixes and a number of new features. Some highlights of features in the M7, since the previously announced Milestone 6:

• Reactive WebFlux Channel Adapters has been extracted to the separate spring-integration-webflux module to distinguish Servlet-based MVC configuration from the Reactive foundation.

• The EmbeddedJsonHeadersMessageMapper is introduced to allow embedding message headers together with the payload into packages for target protocols which doesn’t support headers natively, for example TCP/IP, MQTT, AWS Kinesis and Apache Kafka before version 0.11.x.

• The java.util.function.Supplier can now act as a MessageSource:

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I am pleased to announce that the 2.0.0.RC1 release candidate of Spring AMQP is now available in the Spring milestone repository.

This release adds some minor fixes/improvements since the final milestone Milestone 5.

Thanks to all the community member for their feedback and contributions!

The GA release will follow shortly after the Spring Framework 5.0 GA release in September.

For a complete list of changes in 2.0, see What’s New in the reference manual.

Maintenance releases 1.7.4 and 1.6.11 are also available now.

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We are pleased to announce the availability of the 2.0.0.RC1 release candidate of the Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 version.

As discussed in the 1.3.0.M2 announcement, we are concurrently releasing 1.3 with 2.0, where 1.3 contains a subset of the 2.0 features, supporting the Kafka 0.11.x.x client, while still supporting Spring Framework 4.3. As such, the 1.3.0.RC1 release candidate is also available.

They are available for download from the Milestone Repository:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone' }
}
compile "org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:2.0.0.RC1"

Since the previous announcement, the following is a summary…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.7 includes 51 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

What's next?

Spring Framework 5.0 RC4 has just been released and other Spring projects should follow. Spring Boot 2.0 M4 is just around the corner and this will be a nice way to test the last release candidate of Spring Framework before GA. If you want to take an early look at Spring Boot 2, and we’d love to hear your feedback if you do, please go to start.spring.io and select Spring Boot 2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.11 is available now.

This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.7 maintenance release.

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On behalf of the community, I would like to announce Spring Vault 1.1.0 RC, available from the milestone repository.

Since the previous milestone, these features have made it into the release candidate:

• Pull-mode support for AppRole authentication

• New styling of the HTML reference documentation

Contributions

Without the community, we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

For a complete list of changes see the changelog.

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