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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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that our fourth and last Spring Framework 5.0 release candidate is available now, aligned with Reactor 3.1 RC1 as well as yesterday's JUnit 5.0 GA, and serving as a foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0 M4!

Spring Framework 5.0 RC4 also comes with first-class support for the final version of the Servlet 4.0 API, provides fine-tuned integration with Hibernate Validator 6.0 and is up-to-date with Jackson 2.9.1 and Kotlin 1.1.4. Our dependency baseline is therefore almost complete, with just Reactor 3.1 GA and a few JDK 9 related updates…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of Ingalls SR7 and Kay RC3 releases. Ingalls SR7 ships with over 40 issues fixed and Kay RC3 with exactly 90 issues fixed. Both are recommended upgrades for all users. Kay RC3 is the final release candidate before our GA at the end of September, i.e. in case you haven't already, it's the perfect time to give the new major version a test run.

For your convenience the service release is going to be picked up in the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.7 release and Kay RC3 will be part of Spring Boot 2.0 M4.

You can find the complete list of issues fixed here for Ingalls SR7 and here for Kay RC3…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

Spring Boot Starter

The Finchley.M2 release builds on top of the Spring Boot 2.0.0.M3, Spring Framework 5.0.0.RC3, and Project Reactor Bismuth-M3 releases.

Spring Cloud Gateway

The major new feature in the Gateway is WebSocket support (route uri's with a ws:// scheme) along with a Request Rate Limiter based on Redis, more documentation and a site…

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…