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

We would like to thank many community contributors and testers for their help. There have been many pull requests, issues and conversations that have made Spring Cloud Brixton better.

Highlights

Some of the highlights of the Brixton Release Train are:

• Spring Boot 1.3.x and Spring Framework 4.2.x support
• Hashicorp Consul support for service registration/discovery & configuration via Spring Cloud Consul
• Apache Zookeeper support for service registration/discovery, configuration via Spring Cloud Zookeeper and leader election in Spring Cloud Cluster
• Distributed tracing through the Spring Cloud Sleuth abstraction with two out of the box implementations: one supporting logging (ideal for log collectors and multiplexers like Logstash and Loggregator) and one supporting Twitter's Zipkin
• Netflix Atlas Telemetry System, the next generation Spectator Metrics library…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.0.RELEASE. The artifacts can be found in Spring Repository as well as Maven Central.

The goal of Spring Cloud Stream is to be a lightweight framework for developing event-driven microservices, building on the ease of development and deployment of Spring Boot, and the component model and integration capabilities of Spring Integration. As part of the Spring Cloud family of projects, it has a specific focus on cloud-native architectures.

In order to simplify the development of both streaming and…

Shortly after 1.3.4, we've just released Spring Boot 1.3.5 as we've identified a rather nasty regression with the Spring Integration auto-configuration. The bits are available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central, as usual.

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Spring IO Platform 2.0.4.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 to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Reactor 2.0.8.RELEASE
• Spring AMQP 1.5.5.RELEASE
• Spring Batch 3.0.7.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.3.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.2.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.2.6.RELEASE
• Spring Security 4.0.4.RELEASE

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

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We are pleased to announce that the Spring AMQP 1.6 release candidate (1.6.0.RC1) is now available in the spring milestone repo.

The 1.5.6 maintenance release is also available with a few bug fixes.

Here is a summary of the 1.6.0 release contents, for more details, refer to the what's new in the reference documentation as well as the closed JIRA Issues for this release.

• A new jar spring-rabbit-test containing a test harness to help with testing @RabbitListener methods; see the testing chapter.

• Multiple @RabbitListener annotations on a method (when using Java 8) and the @RabbitListeners annotation (for pre-Java 8), each allowing the same method to be the listener method for multiple listener containers.

• Full support for the Delayed Message Exchange RabbitMQ plugin.

• An AsyncRabbitTemplate returning ListenableFuture<?> for request/reply messaging.

• An option to publish ApplicationEvents when listener containers go idle.

• The caching connection factory now exposes cache statistics

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Spring Boot 1.3.4 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 4.2.6 and 3.2.17 maintenance releases are available now. We also released the second release candidate of the 4.3 line.

4.3 RC2 contains many refinements and fixes, especially in the web framework area. We are about to finalize 4.3 with a scheduled GA in early June. Preparations towards merging 5.0 features into master will happen right afterwards, with a first 5.0 milestone expected in July.

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On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.0.RELEASE. This release evolved through 4.1.0 RC1, 4.1.0 RC2, and 4.1.0 closing nearly 200 tickets.

What’s New in Spring Security 4.1

You can find highlights of what's new in the What’s New in Spring Security 4.1 section of the reference. For details refer to the changelog links above.

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.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe (our latest full time Spring Security team member) @joe_grandja…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the 1.0.0.M3 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow.

Over the last few months, we have added exciting new features and improvements to the overall orchestration of data microservices on a variety of platforms. We have also made some changes that significantly benefit developers, such as exposing Spring Boot Starters for all of the stream and task applications we publish. Following are some of the highlights from this release:

For the complete list of features, bug-fixes, and improvements, please refer to the closed 1.0.0.M3 GitHub…