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.

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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.

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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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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.6 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.6 fixes a problem with Spring Data's dependency management that was introduced in 1.5.5. Sorry for the inconvenience.

What's next?

After the recent release of Spring Framework 5.0 RC3 and the flurry of other releases that followed, Spring Boot 2.0 M3 has just been released. 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.M3 or 2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.5 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.5 includes 80 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

What's next?

After the recent release of Spring Framework 5.0 RC3 and the flurry of other releases that followed, Spring Boot 2.0 M3 is just around the corner. 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…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.0.0.M3 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. This release represents the third milestone for the Spring Batch 4.0 release. Many thanks to all that contributed to this release.

What's new?

This milestone continues the work laid out in the previous 4.0.0 milestones. Specific updates include:

• Dependency updates
• Continued java configuration improvements
• Intial updates to documentation

Dependency updates

As the dependency graph of Spring Boot 2 evolves, we have been updating our dependencies to be in line with them…

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…