The third milestone of Spring Boot 2.0 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This milestone ensures compatibility with Spring Framework 5.0.0.RC3 and contains a number of other dependency upgrades. This release closes over 100 issues and pull requests, thanks to all that contributed!

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 2.0.0.M3 Release Notes on the WIKI and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started and discover the new features, you can easily bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.3.

Local Server: Quick Start, Getting Started Guide

This is a maintenance release where we focused on improving the reference documentation. Other improvements include addition of an OSS licensed JDBC driver for Microsoft SQL Server. The latest local deployer version can now handle apps built using Spring Boot 2.0 milestone releases.

More details can be found in the release notes.

Feedback is important. Please reach out to us in StackOverflow and GitHub for questions and feature requests. We also welcome contributions! Any help improving the Spring Cloud Data Flow ecosystem…

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2.0.0.M3. This release is focused primarily on ensuring compatibility with Spring Framework 5.0.0.RC3 and Spring Data Kay RC1 which is the minimum Spring version required.

This release includes the following new features:

• Support added for Spring WebFlux

• Support for WebFlux’s WebSession

• Added ReactorSessionRepository to support a reactive SessionRepository API. The default implementation provided is MapReactorSessionRepository.

We have split Spring Session into modules based upon the repository…

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 6 for the Spring Integration 5.0 version (5.0.0.M6) 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.M6"

19 JIRAs (and some GitHub issues) made into this release, including bug fixes and a number of new features. Some highlights of features in the M6, since the previously announced Milestone 5:

• The Spring WebFlux based Reactive Channel Adapters are provided for the HTTP server side:
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Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that the third Spring Framework 5.0 release candidate is available!

This release comes with refined nullability declarations (including the field and bean property level), even stronger Kotlin support (with a declarative bean definition DSL and support for default constructor arguments on Kotlin data classes), as well as several API refinements in Spring WebFlux. Furthermore, Spring Framework 5.0 RC3 ships against Reactor 3.1 M3 and JUnit 5.0 M6 and is fully tested against the recent JDK 9 release candidate.

With respect to our remaining roadmap, despite being feature-complete already, we opted for an extended release candidate phase. This allows for further hardening of our revised APIs and in particular for a proper upgrade to Reactor 3.1 GA, JUnit 5.0 GA and Jackson 2.9 GA (all expected by early September). As a consequence, we are aiming for our Spring Framework 5.0 GA release in September…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0 M3. This release includes bug fixes, new features, and is based off of Spring Framework 5.0.0 RC3.

The new features included in this milestone are:

• Support added for JSON Web Token (JWT) and JSON Web Signature (JWS) via the new module spring-security-jwt-jose

• Integrated the ID Token for OpenID Connect authentication flows

Please refer to the change log for further details on this release.

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I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 5 of Spring AMQP 2.0 is now available in the Spring milestone repository.

Features and fixes since the last milestone:

• Log4j2 AmqpAppender is now thread-safe;

• DefaultMessagePropertiesConverter now correctly passes arrays for the header values to the AMQP Client library;

• Jackson2JsonMessageConverter can now be configured for the trustedPackages to fix violation for Jackson Serialization Gadgets;

• RabbitAdmin operations can now be performed on the same AMQP channel as a unit of work via RabbitTemplate.invoke();

• PossibleAuthenticationFailureException can now be treated as a non-fatal via particular option on the AbstractMessageListenerContainer;

• RepublishMessageRecoverer can now be configured for the deliveryMode for messages to republish.

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We are pleased to announce the availability of the Milestone 3 of the Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 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:2.0.0.M3"

Since the previous announcement, these feature have made it into the current Milestone:

• Apache Kafka 0.11.0.0 client base line;

• With the new Apache Kafka foundation we have introduced KafkaTransactionManager and transactions support in the KafkaTemplate via new executeInTransaction() operation;

• The KafkaListenerContainer can now be supplied with the TransactionManager to perform polling and offset commits with transaction boundaries;

• The Kafka Headers support is provided as well. Now you can send and receive messages with any arbitrary headers, for example build request-reply scenarios using some correlationKey header;

• The ConsumerAwareErrorHandler is provided to manage Consumer state in case of errors;

  …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 2 (SR2) 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.

End of Life for Angel and Brixton release trains

The Angel and Brixton release trains have reached their end of life. As such, there will be no more releases to those trains. The community is encouraged to upgrade to Camden.SR7 or Dalston.SR2.

The following…