Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.7.0 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Mars 4.5 GA (including many fixes and improvements for Java8)
• Spring Boot YML properties editor (including content-assist, hovers, navigation, and errors/warnings)
• improved support for Cloud Foundry
• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.1.1
• early support for Spring Roo 2.0.0.M1 (thanks to Disid)

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 3.7.0 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.7.1 is scheduled to ship in early October 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Mars SR1 release.

Enjoy!

The latest version of Spring Cloud is "Angel.SR3" and it is available now from the usual repositories (note the new naming convention, more detail below). Most components are now at 1.0.2.RELEASE, but spring-cloud-netflix is at 1.0.3.RELEASE. The starters and cli and also at 1.0.3.RELEASE, reflecting their dependency on Netflix. Angel.SR3 is a bugfix release for Angel.SR2 (formerly known as 1.0.2) and all existing projects are encouraged to upgrade to take advantage.

There are a few new features, the biggest of which is the new naming convention for the starter parent project (see below…

I'm delighted to announce that Spring REST Docs has reached its first milestone and that 1.0.0.M1 is available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

Spring REST Docs helps you to document RESTful services. It combines hand-written documentation written with Asciidoctor and auto-generated snippets produced with Spring MVC Test. This approach frees you from the limitations imposed by tools like Swagger. It helps you to produce documentation that is accurate, concise, and well-structured. This documentation then allows your users to get the information they need with a minimum of fuss.

Getting…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Integration Kafka 1.2.

This new release provides a couple of major improvements and upgrades over the previous versions:

• Support for Apache Kafka 0.8.2 and using the new Producer API;
• Overhaul of the internal concurrent dispatching with a non-blocking ring buffer implementation based on Project Reactor.

For each of the changes, the goal was to improve the performance of the producer and, respectively, consumer components of Spring Integration Kafka. While we do not have any isolated benchmarks for Spring Integration Kafka proper, the enhancements of the release have contributed to the performance metrics reported in the newly released Spring XD 1.2…

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.2, Spring XD 1.1.3 and the release of Flo for Spring XD Beta.

• 1.2.0.GA: zip
• 1.1.3.RELEASE: zip
• Flo for Spring XD Beta

You can also install XD 1.2 using brew and rpm

The 1.2 release includes a wide range of new features and improvements. The release journey was an eventful one, mainly due to Spring XD’s popularity with so many different groups, each with their respective request priorities. However the Spring XD team rose to the challenge and it is rewarding to look back and review the amount of innovation delivered to…

Dear Spring community,

The Spring team hereby announces that the Spring Framework 3.2.x line will reach End-Of-Life status at the end of 2016 (along with Apache Tomcat 6.x). We keep publishing occasional 3.2.x maintenance releases up until that point and will then end the branch.

Please prepare for upgrading to Spring Framework 4.x in time. The current Spring Framework 4 generation will remain in active maintenance until 2019, based on the upcoming 4.3 feature release next year - similar to the extended life that 3.2.x is in at the moment.

FYI, we expect Spring Framework 5.0 to be generally available by Q4 2016, requiring JDK 8+. If you need to stay on JDK 6 or 7, Spring Framework 4.x…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Data GemFire now has support for Apache Geode.

What is Apache Geode?

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Technically, Apace Geode is an in-memory, distributed database (a.k.a. IMDG) enabling new as well as existing Spring/Java applications to operate at cloud scale with high availability and predictable latency without sacrificing consistency. Applications are able to transact and analyze Big Data in realtime to achieve…

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Boot v1.3.0.M1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release builds on Spring Framework 4.2.0.RC1 and provides a number of improvements and new features over Spring Boot 1.2. Highlights include:

• A new spring-boot-devtools module with support for automatic restart, LiveReload and remote update.
• Extensive caching support for EhCache, Hazelcast, Infinispan, Redis, Guava or any compliant JSR-107 (JCache) implementation. Cache metric information is now also exposed via the actuator (when the underlying technology supports it).
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We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.2 GA release.

The most important changes/enhancements in the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.2 version are:

• Remove support for running with JDK 6, Java 7 or later is now required
• Improvements to the HDFS writer to support syncable writes and a new timeout option
• Improvements in the HBase support - adding PUT and DELETE to HbaseTemplate
• Add support for Pivotal HD 3.0
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• Update Kite SDK to version 1.0
• Update Spring project versions to the latest

We continue…