We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Task 1.0.1.RELEASE. This is the recommended GA release for Spring Cloud Task and is available from Maven Central as well as the usual other locations.

How did we get here?

Spring Cloud Task, is a step in an evolution of data applications in the Spring portfolio. As we announce this release, it may be helpful to look at how we got to this point.

It began with Spring Batch

Built upon the Spring portfolio, the evolution of this type of finite workload really began with Spring Batch. One of the main workload specific extensions of the Spring framework, Spring Batch provided functionality for performing finite amounts of processing in an enterprise friendly way. With multiple processing models (Tasklet vs Chunk) as well as scalability options that allowed for…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 3 of the Spring Cloud Brixton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

Included in this release is the GA release of Spring Cloud Task.

Other than the addition of Spring Cloud Task, this release includes primarily bug fixes.

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

• Spring Cloud Security 1.1.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.0.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Task 1.0.1.RELEASE

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

I’m pleased to announce that the Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.2 M1 is available now!

First of I’d like to thank everyone who created issues, raised Pull Requests, provided feedback or just asked questions on StackOverflow. Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today!

The artifact org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-java-dsl:1.2.0.M1 is available in the Milestone repo. So, give it a shot and don’t hesitate to raise a GH issue for any feedback!

Some highlights of the current iteration:

Apache Kafka 0.9 support

Based on the recently released Spring for Apache Kafka project, a new Kafka09 factory has been introduced. This is straightforward Java DSL factory for producing IntegrationComponentSpec fluent API builders for adapters based on the a Spring for Apache Kafka foundation. An existing Kafka factory for Apache Kafka 0.8…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 2.0.6.RELEASE 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 Boot 1.3.6.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.2.7.RELEASE
• Spring Integration 4.2.8.RELEASE
• Spring REST Docs 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Spring Retry 1.1.3.RELEASE
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.10.RELEASE

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I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.1.RELEASE which resolves over 50 issues. This release provides mitigation for CVE-2016-5007 There are also lots of bug fixes, but there are also a few notable enhancements.

• MvcRequestMatcher provides deep integration with Spring MVC to ensure consistent path matching strategies for authorization rules

• CORS Support that can leverage Spring MVC’s CORS configuration

• CookieCsrfTokenRepository.withHttpOnlyFalse() for easily integrating with AngularJS applications

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.0 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Neon 4.6 GA
• all new Spring Boot code templates
• improved Spring Boot YML and property editors (more advanced content-assist, quick-fixes, and more)
• many small improvements to improve developer productivity
• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.1.4

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.8.0 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

It is my pleasure to announce that the release candidate of Spring Boot 1.4 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This milestone concludes 6 months of work in the 1.4 line, closing over 140 issues and pull requests! Thanks to everyone that has contributed.

Highlights of the new release include:

• Unified @EntityScan for JPA, MongoDB, Neo4j, Couchbase and Cassandra
• Auto-configured RestTemplateBuilder
• Support for pure rest client tests via @RestClientTest
• Support for Jest (Elasticsearch rest client)
• Upgrades to Spring Integration 4.3, Spring AMQP 1.6, Spring REST Docs 1.1, MongoDB Java Driver 3 and more
…

Right after Spring Framework 4.2.7, Spring Boot 1.3.6 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and 3rd party dependency updates.

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It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Framework 4.3.1 and 4.2.7 maintenance releases are available now.

The first maintenance release of the 4.3 line contains 40 fixes and improvements and is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4 release. The master branch has now switched to 5.0 and we'll start merging 5.0 features in preparation for 5.0.0.M1 later this month.

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For more details about Spring Framework 4.3, check Juergen Hoeller's session at SpringOne Platform, which is taking place in Las Vegas between August 1-4 this year. There are many other great talks so check the agenda and get your ticket…