On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud Edgware Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Edgware release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Edgware Release Train

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Spring Cloud Gateway is a new project that aims to provide the ability to build an API gateway on top of Spring MVC.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.3.0.M1 removed support for Project Reactor even though it was present in snapshot releases

Spring Cloud Commons

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Milestone 2 of the Spring for Apache Kafka 1.3 version.

It is available for download from the Milestone Repository:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone' }
}
compile "org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:1.3.0.M1"

(Milestone 1 had a blocker issue).

Functionally, the 1.3.x line provides a subset of the 2.0 line (which requires Spring Framework 5.0 and Java 8), but provides support for Java 7 projects and Spring Framework 4.3.x.

It is primarily intended to provide early access to 0.11.0.0 Apache Kafka client…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 3 (SR3) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

This release is primarily a bug fix release and users are encouraged to upgrade.

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

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.M1 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

This release is the first release that is compatible with the Spring Boot 2.0 milestones (specifically Spring Boot 2.0.0.M3 for this release). With that upgrade, all dependencies are also upgraded (Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Batch, etc) as well as an upgrade of the baseline Java version to Java 8.

What do you think?

We look forward to your feedback on these new features in Github, StackOverflow, or to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0.

Local Server: Getting Started Guide.

Usability is one of the big focus for our team and in the 1.3 release-line, we are aiming to modernize the dashboard with an upgraded client-side technology stack, improved tooling, and documentation. The focus is to improve the readability, user-experience, and the overall performance.

Angular 4

This first milestone release of Spring Cloud Data Flow contains the initial version of the new Angular 4 based Dashboard UI. The old AngularJS 1.x based UI…

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce a new milestone release of Spring Cloud Pipelines - 1.0.0.M6.

What’s new?

Pipeline descriptor

Each application can contain a file called pipeline.yml with the following structure:

lowercaseEnvironmentName1:
    services:
        - type: service1Type
          name: service1Name
          coordinates: value
        - type: service2Type
          name: service2Name
          key: value
lowercaseEnvironmentName2:
    services:
        - type: service3Type
          name: service3Name
          coordinates: value
        - type…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-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 Batch 3.0.8
• Spring Boot 1.5.6
• Spring Data Ingalls SR6
• Spring Framework 4.3.10
• Spring Integration 4.3.11
• Spring Retry 1.2.1

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

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security OAuth 2.2.0.RELEASE.

The 2.2.0.RELEASE includes the following new features:

• JwtClaimsSetVerifier that provides the capability of verifying the claim(s) contained in a JWT Claims Set.

• IssuerClaimVerifier that verifies the Issuer (iss) claim contained in the JWT Claims Set.

• DelegatingJwtClaimsSetVerifier that simply delegates claims verification to it’s internal list of JwtClaimsSetVerifier(s).

• ProviderDiscoveryClient that is capable of discovering provider configuration information as defined by the OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 specification.

• JwkTokenStore now supports multiple JWK Set URL’s.

• The ability to supply a custom AccessTokenConverter to JwkTokenStore.

  …

On behalf of the community, I would like to announce two new Spring Vault milestones: 1.1.0 M1 and 2.0.0 M2. Release 1.1.0 M1 ships with 24 tickets completed and 2.0.0 M2 with 7 resolved tickets and are available from the milestone repository.

Since the previous releases, these features have made it into the current milestones:

• Vault login using via AWS IAM

• Rotation of generic secrets based on their lease duration

• Introduction of VaultEndpointProvider to configure endpoints dynamically

additionally, 2.0.0 M2 ships with:

• Authentication DSL to declare authentication flows

• Reactive support based on Spring Framework 5 WebClient and Project Reactor

• Enhanced tooling support by adding @NonNullApi and @Nullable annotations to be picked up by your favorite IDE

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