On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0 M5. This release includes bug fixes & new features. The primary focus is being based off of Spring Framework 5.0.0.RELEASE, Reactor Bismuth-RELEASE, and Spring Data Kay-RELEASE.

This release also lays the foundation for Reactive and OAuth2 auto configuration in Spring Boot 2.0.0.M5

You can find complete details in the changelog.

Get Involved!

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 @joe_grandja…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Vault 1.1.0 and the third milestone of Spring Vault 2.0, available from Maven Cental respective the milestone repository.

Highlights of Spring Vault 1.1 GA release are:

• Pull-mode support for AppRole authentication.

• Vault login using via AWS IAM.

• Support of batch transit operations.

• Rotation of generic secrets based on their lease duration.

• Introduction of VaultEndpointProvider to configure endpoints dynamically.

Looking at Spring Vault 2.0 M3 you will find the following enhancements:

• Vault repositories via @EnableVaultRepositories built on top of Spring Data KeyValue.

• Support to create and modify Vault’s policies represented as JSON.

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I am pleased to announce that the 2.0.0.RELEASE of Spring AMQP is now available in the Spring release repository and Maven Central.

First of all thanks to all community members for any feedback and contributions to make this new instalment of Spring for AMQP and RabbitMQ support project!

Some highlights what we have after a year and a couple months of amazing team work:

• Full Java 8 and Spring Framework 5.0 support;

• New spring-rabbit-junit artifact with some useful testing utilities including BrokerRunning JUnit @Rule;

• The amqp-client library of version 5.0;

• A DirectMessageListenerContainer to allow to consume messages directly on the client thread instead of queue-based logic in the SimpleMessageListenerContainer;

• A ConnectionNameStrategy option for the ConnectionFactory to name target Broker connections for possible diagnostics;

• new RabbitOperations.invoke() for batch of template operation on the dedicated, thread-bound channel;

• Encoder support for the Logback AmqpAppender;

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 4 (SR4) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in the Maven Central repository. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

The following modules were updated as part of Dalston.SR4:

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter…

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the 2.0.0.RELEASE of the Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 version.

As mentioned in the 2.0 RC1 announcement, the 1.3 GA is also available supporting the Kafka 0.11.x.x client with Spring Framework 4.3.x applications.

They are available for download from the Release Repository and Maven Central:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/release' }
}
compile "org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:2.0.0.RELEASE"

That was 6 months journey to bring a Java 8 and Spring Framework 5 vision for Spring for Apache Kafka project and here is…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.2.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a handful of bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs users.

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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that, after more than a year of milestones and RCs and almost two years of development overall, Spring Framework 5.0 is finally generally available as 5.0.0.RELEASE from repo.spring.io and Maven Central!

This brand-new generation of the framework is ready for 2018 and beyond: with support for JDK 9 and the Java EE 8 API level (e.g. Servlet 4.0), as well as comprehensive integration with Reactor 3.1, JUnit 5, and the Kotlin language. On top of that all, Spring Framework 5 comes with many functional API variants and introduces a dedicated…

It is my great pleasure to announce the GA release of Reactor Bismuth, which notably encompasses reactor-core 3.1.0.RELEASE and reactor-netty 0.7.0.RELEASE ?

With the release of Spring Framework 5.0 now just happening, you can imagine this is a giant step for Project Reactor :)

Like the bismuth crystal this release is intricate

 
The release contains a lot of changes and API polishing. For reactor-core you can find the exhaustive list in the release notes.

Important

There is a known (minor) issue with the reactor-core and reactor-test sources jars: They contain duplicate java source entries. See issue #887 for…

I am pleased to announce that the 2.0.0.RC2 release candidate of Spring AMQP is now available in the Spring milestone repository.

Since the first release candidate the primary changes are:

• update to the new 5.0 version of the amqp-client library

• increase the default prefetch count in listener containers

A complete list of changes since RC1 can be found in the release notes.

Thanks to all the community members for their feedback and contributions!

The GA release will follow shortly after the Spring Framework 5.0 GA release.

For a complete list of changes in 2.0, see What’s New in the reference manual…