As part of our activities to support developers around the globe building applications with Spring and deploying those apps to Cloud Foundry and PCF, we are proud to announce our first beta version of the Cloud Foundry Manifest editing support for Visual Studio Code (on macOS, Linux x64, and Windows).

Why Visual Studio Code?

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight and open-source code editor that runs on macOS, Linux x64, and Windows. It is based on an interesting architecture with regards to extensibility. Support for languages in Visual Studio Code gets implemented as so called “language…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-RC1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository.

The Brussels release introduces the following projects to the Platform:

• Spring Kafka 1.1

The Brussels release also upgrades the versions of a number of projects:

• Spring AMQP 1.7
• Spring Boot 1.5
• Spring Data Ingalls
• Spring Integration Java DSL 1.2
• Spring Integration Kafka 2.1
• Spring LDAP 2.3
• Spring Security 4.2
• Spring Session 1.3
• Spring Web Services 2.4

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

Please take RC1 for a spin and let us know if…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-SR3 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 AMQP 1.6.7
• Spring Boot 1.4.4
• Spring Data Hopper SR7
• Spring Framework 4.3.6
• Spring Integration 4.3.7

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

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Dalston Release Train

Spring Cloud Vault Config is a new project that provides client-side support for externalized secret management in a distributed system via Hashicorp Vault.

Config Server

Hashicorp Vault was previously added as a backend to Config Server to go along with the VCS based backends. Config…

On behalf of the Spring Boot team, and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

What's new in 1.5

Apache Kafka Support

Spring Boot 1.5 includes auto-configuration support for Apache Kafka via the spring-kafka project. To use Kafka simply include the spring-kafka dependency and configure the appropriate spring.kafka.* application…

In preparation of the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.4 release, I am pleased to announce the availability of the seventh service release of Spring Data release train Hopper. The release ships 39 tickets fixed and is a recommended upgrade for all users.

• Spring Data Commons 1.12.7 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.10.7 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.1.7 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.4.7 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.0.7 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.8.7 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.1.7 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.9.7 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the general availability of our Ingalls release train. After nine months of development, this release not only contains a huge set of new features, improvements and bug fixes, it also marks the conclusion of a branch of Spring Data that has helped developers dealing with persistence for more than 5 years --- even 8, if you count in some module's predecessors.

The release ships more than 630 tickets fixed in total. Here's a very truncated list of the most important features shipping with the release:

• Upgrade to Spring 4.3 as Spring Framework baseline.
• Add Spring Data LDAP (the Spring Data related bits of Spring LDAP) to the release train.
• Elevate Spring Data for Apache Cassandra to a Core module, give it a complete overhaul and upgrade it to Cassandra 3. User defined types, support for Java 8 Stream and Optional etc.
• Performance improvements in object-to-store mapping by avoiding reflection in favor of ASM generated code using method handles.
• More aggregation framework for MongoDB.
• Improved stream execution verification in JPA (reports a missing surrounding transaction).
• …

I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.4 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.4.4 includes over 60 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates! Thanks to all that have contributed!

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask at stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag.

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On behalf of the team, I am happy to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.6 is available now.

This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.4 and 1.5.0 releases and includes over 60 fixes and selected improvements.

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