On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 4 (SR4) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in the Maven Central repository. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

The following modules were updated as part of Dalston.SR4:

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter…

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the 2.0.0.RELEASE of the Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 version.

As mentioned in the 2.0 RC1 announcement, the 1.3 GA is also available supporting the Kafka 0.11.x.x client with Spring Framework 4.3.x applications.

They are available for download from the Release Repository and Maven Central:

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

That was 6 months journey to bring a Java 8 and Spring Framework 5 vision for Spring for Apache Kafka project and here is…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.2.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a handful of bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs users.

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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that, after more than a year of milestones and RCs and almost two years of development overall, Spring Framework 5.0 is finally generally available as 5.0.0.RELEASE from repo.spring.io and Maven Central!

This brand-new generation of the framework is ready for 2018 and beyond: with support for JDK 9 and the Java EE 8 API level (e.g. Servlet 4.0), as well as comprehensive integration with Reactor 3.1, JUnit 5, and the Kotlin language. On top of that all, Spring Framework 5 comes with many functional API variants and introduces a dedicated…

It is my great pleasure to announce the GA release of Reactor Bismuth, which notably encompasses reactor-core 3.1.0.RELEASE and reactor-netty 0.7.0.RELEASE ?

With the release of Spring Framework 5.0 now just happening, you can imagine this is a giant step for Project Reactor :)

Like the bismuth crystal this release is intricate

 
The release contains a lot of changes and API polishing. For reactor-core you can find the exhaustive list in the release notes.

Important

There is a known (minor) issue with the reactor-core and reactor-test sources jars: They contain duplicate java source entries. See issue #887 for…

I am pleased to announce that the 2.0.0.RC2 release candidate of Spring AMQP is now available in the Spring milestone repository.

Since the first release candidate the primary changes are:

• update to the new 5.0 version of the amqp-client library

• increase the default prefetch count in listener containers

A complete list of changes since RC1 can be found in the release notes.

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

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

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

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.2.2.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. This release adds support for Spring Framework's recent added support for db engines other than MYISAM for the sequence tables when using MySql. A special thanks to Thomas Risberg for the contributions around this issue.

Spring Cloud Task Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

We look forward to your feedback in Github, StackOverflow, to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella or at SpringOnePlatform in December!

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR5 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 1.7.4
• Spring Boot 1.5.7
• Spring Data Ingalls SR7
• Spring Framework 4.3.11
• Spring Integration 4.3.12
• Spring Loaded 1.2.8
• Spring Web Flow 2.4.6

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

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On behalf of the Reactor team, it is my pleasure to announce that reactor-core 3.1.0.RC1 has been released ?. This is a big last step towards GA release of 3.1 at the end of the month, the long term support version that will back Spring 5!

It is also complemented by various releases, all tied together in the Bismuth-M4 Release Train and BOM:

• reactor-test, reactor-extra, reactor-adapter and reactor-logback all made the cut to 3.1.0.RC1
• reactor-netty has seen significant updates and bug fixes in the new 0.7.0.M2 milestone
• reactor-kafka has been released in its 1.0.0.M4 milestone

In order to get this release, the best way is to use the BOM, as described in the reference guide here. Make sure to read the part about milestones (transposing it to Bismuth-M4…