Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that the fourth Spring Framework 5.0 milestone is available now, right in time to wrap up 2016! Once again, please check the project page for how to obtain it from our milestone repository and the updated "Reactive Web Applications" documentation.

This milestone brings our reactive efforts close to completion and introduces a functional bean registration facility as well as comprehensive support for the Kotlin language. Stay tuned for a dedicated blog post on Kotlin...

Cheers, Juergen

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I’d like to announce the first (and final) Release Candidate of Spring AMQP 1.7, which is available in the Milestone Repository.

This release is mainly an intermediate between version 1.6.x and 2.0 for Spring Boot 1.5 and IO Platform Brussels compatibility.

Anyway there are several improvements and new features to explain here:

• Upgrade to Amqp Client 4.0 with appropriate RabbitConnectionFactoryBean changes

• Upgrade to Log4j 2.7 and required braking change fix for the log4j2.AmqpAppender

• Upgrade to Spring Retry 1.2 with important StatefulRetryOperationsInterceptor.setUseRawKey(true) for backward compatibility

• a new spring-rabbit-junit artifact is provided with several utilities (like BrokerRunning @Rule) which can be useful for testing Spring AMQP applications

• The SimpleMessageListenerContainer can now be started without queues to listen to at all. They can be provided later at runtime via addQueues()

• a ConnectionNameStrategy is provided for the ConnectionFactory to allow to identify application connections in the Broker or other monitoring and tracing tools

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On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the first (and final) release candidate of Spring Data train Ingalls. The release ships over 310 issues fixed (some of them previously released with Hopper service releases). The most important new features are:

• Upgrade to Spring 4.3(.5) as baseline - #294.
• Support to easily expose domain events as Spring application events from aggregate roots - DATACMNS-928.
• Support for exists projection from derived query methods - DATACMNS-875.
• Support for Javaslang's Option, collection and map types on repository query methods - DATACMNS-937, DATACMNS-940.
• Added Spring Data LDAP module taking over the repository implementation of Spring LDAP.
• Support for MongoDB aggregation operators added in latest releases - DATAMONGO-1536.
• Stream execution now rejects invocation without surrounding transaction in JPA - DATAJPA-1023…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.3 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.4.3 includes over 70 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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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.3 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

STS 3.8.3 focuses on adopting Eclipse Neon.2 and fixing existing issues. The list of changes include:

• Updated to Eclipse Neon.2
• Added support for one-time passcode for Cloud Foundry targets in the Spring Boot Dashboard
• Added support for WAR packaging of Spring Boot apps when deploying them to CF in the Spring Boot Dashboard
• Added support for health-check in Cloud Foundry manifest files
• Fixed a number of most-reported errors from the automated error reporting
• and more...

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 3.8.3 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 3.2.10, 4.1.4, and 4.2.1 which fix CVE-2016-9879. Users are encouraged to update immediately.

It is important to note that Spring Framework 3.2.x has reached EOL. As with Spring Framework, we expect all users to upgrade to 4.2.1+ for further support. Detailed instructions (including samples) on migrating both XML and Java Config based projects can be found in the reference appendix

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.2.1 and 2.3 RC1.

A special thanks to Mark Paluch for getting spring-data-ldap aligned on the Spring Data side!

Spring LDAP 2.3 RC1

This release brings in a new era for Spring Data compatibility. Integration for Spring LDAP and Spring Data has been moved to spring-data-ldap so that it can partake in the Spring Data release train and ensure compatibility with the latest and greatest Spring Data code base. For additional details refer to the changelog

Spring LDAP 2.2.1

This release contains some minor bug fixes along with an update to make updates to newer versions of Spring Data more seamless. For additional details refer to the changelog…

It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Framework 4.3.5, 4.2.9 and 3.2.18 maintenance releases are available now.

4.3.5 is a significant refinement release with 37 enhancements (including e.g. WebSocket support for the recently released Jetty 9.4) and several bug fixes, serving as the basis for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.3 release.

Please note that the 4.2.9 and 3.2.18 bug fix releases are the last in their respective line, with 4.2.x being superseded by 4.3.x now and 3.2.x reaching its EOL point. Going forward, we expect all users to upgrade to 4.3.5+ for further support.

All three releases also fix a path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2016-9878) in ResourceServlet. If you happen to be among its rare users, please upgrade ASAP. Note that this functionality has been superseded for years already and will get removed in 5.0, so we actually recommend a migration to Spring MVC's resource handling features within a DispatcherServlet…

It's my pleasure to announce that 1.0.0.RC1 of the Dependency Management Plugin has been released. It's available from Gradle's Plugin Portal as well as Maven Central and Bintray.

What's new?

The plugin's been rewritten in Java and its API has been formalised. A clear separation between that API and the plugin's internals has been introduced. This has required a few breaking changes but you are unlikely to be affected if you were using the Groovy DSL.

Converting to Java and formalising the API has also enabled a couple of enhancements:

### Official support for Gradle 3

Previously, the plugin was written in Groovy and attempted to support Gradle 1, 2, and 3. This proved to be overly ambitious. The two main problems were binary incompatibilities across the three different Groovy runtimes (1.8, 2.3, and 2.4) and breaking changes across the three versions of Gradle. To address these, the Gradle team's recommendation was to rewrite the plugin in Java and to drop support for Gradle 1.x. This release does just that, with the plugin's main code now being 100% Java and Gradle 2.9 now being the minimum supported version. As a result, Gradle 3.x is now officially supported and it should be easier to support new versions of…