I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.1.RELEASE which resolves over 50 issues. This release provides mitigation for CVE-2016-5007 There are also lots of bug fixes, but there are also a few notable enhancements.

• MvcRequestMatcher provides deep integration with Spring MVC to ensure consistent path matching strategies for authorization rules

• CORS Support that can leverage Spring MVC’s CORS configuration

• CookieCsrfTokenRepository.withHttpOnlyFalse() for easily integrating with AngularJS applications

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.0 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Neon 4.6 GA
• all new Spring Boot code templates
• improved Spring Boot YML and property editors (more advanced content-assist, quick-fixes, and more)
• many small improvements to improve developer productivity
• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.1.4

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 3.8.0 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

It is my pleasure to announce that the release candidate of Spring Boot 1.4 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This milestone concludes 6 months of work in the 1.4 line, closing over 140 issues and pull requests! Thanks to everyone that has contributed.

Highlights of the new release include:

• Unified @EntityScan for JPA, MongoDB, Neo4j, Couchbase and Cassandra
• Auto-configured RestTemplateBuilder
• Support for pure rest client tests via @RestClientTest
• Support for Jest (Elasticsearch rest client)
• Upgrades to Spring Integration 4.3, Spring AMQP 1.6, Spring REST Docs 1.1, MongoDB Java Driver 3 and more
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I’m pleased to announce that the spring-kafka (Spring for Apache Kafka) 1.0 GA and Spring Integration Kafka 2.0 GA are available finally!

The artifacts org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:1.0.0.RELEASE and org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka-test:1.0.0.RELEASE are available in the Release repository and Maven Central, respectively.

In addition org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-kafka:2.0.0.RELEASE, fully based on the spring-kafka-1.0.0.RELEASE, is available at the same repositories as well.

Important

Just after release we figured out a nasty bug with unacked offset commits for RECORD mode. Special thanks to Adam Dec! So, please, meet spring-kafka:1.0.1.RELEASE…

It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Framework 4.3.1 and 4.2.7 maintenance releases are available now.

The first maintenance release of the 4.3 line contains 40 fixes and improvements and is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4 release. The master branch has now switched to 5.0 and we'll start merging 5.0 features in preparation for 5.0.0.M1 later this month.

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For more details about Spring Framework 4.3, check Juergen Hoeller's session at SpringOne Platform, which is taking place in Las Vegas between August 1-4 this year. There are many other great talks so check the agenda and get your ticket…

Right after Spring Framework 4.2.7, Spring Boot 1.3.6 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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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 2 of the Spring Cloud Brixton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

This is primarily a bug fix release.

The following modules were updated as part of Brixton.SR2:

• Spring Cloud Config 1.1.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Consul 1.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.1.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Zookeeper 1.0.2.RELEASE

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either on GitHub, on gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

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The Spring Cloud team will be talking about Spring Cloud at Spring One Platform, which will be taking place in Las Vegas between August 1-4 this year. There are many other great talks so check the agenda and get your ticket…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.2.1.RELEASE. This release contains numerous bug fixes and trivial enhancements.

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I am pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 0.6.0.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, JCenter, and the Gradle Plugin Portal.

Gradle 3.0 compatibility

This new release is compatible with Gradle 3.0. At the time of writing it's tested against 3.0 M2 and the 0.6.x line will continue to track Gradle 3.0 development to maintain compatibility if at all possible.

Finer control over bom property overrides

Previously, an imported bom's properties could be overridden using project properties. This new release adds support for overriding a property as part of the import. bomProperty can be used to override properties one at a time (and can be used multiple times to override multiple…