We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.1, 4.0.2, and 3.0.10 are available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

These releases contain security and bug fixes as well as dependencies updates. We recommend users upgrade to one of these versions. Please find the change log for each version in the following links: 4.1.1 | 4.0.2 | 3.0.10

As we announced earlier, please note that v3.0.10 is the last planned release for the 3.x line, so we highly recommend users to upgrade to the latest possible version.

P.S.: We have started work on v4.2, which will focus on performance++ ! Stay tuned!

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On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.3 (changelog), 5.0.11 (changelog), and 4.2.11 (changelog). This series of releases provides a round of bug fixes and users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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I’m pleased to announce the general availability release of Spring CredHub 2.0.0, available now in Maven Central.

CredHub

CredHub provides centralized credential management to the Cloud Foundry platform. CredHub implements an HTTP API to securely store, generate, retrieve, and delete credentials of various types.

Spring CredHub provides a Java binding for the CredHub API, making it easy to integrate Spring applications with CredHub.

What’s New

The Spring CredHub 2.0.0 release includes the following enhancements:

• Supports CredHub server versions 1.x and 2.x, and the CredHub v1 and v2 APIs

• Provides compatibility with Spring Framework 5.1 and Spring Boot 2.1

• Addition of a reactive interface using Reactor

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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Lovelace SR4, Kay SR13, and Ingalls SR18 maintenance releases. Today's releases pick up the latest Spring Framework maintenance releases: 5.1.4, 5.0.12, and 4.3.22, respectively. The upcoming Spring Boot releases (2.1.2, 2.0.8, and 1.5.19) are going to pick up Lovelace SR4, Kay SR13, and Ingalls SR18, for your convenience.

The service releases ship with bug fixes and dependency upgrades and address over 170 tickets in total. You can find the complete list of tickets by following the links below:

• Lovelace SR4
• Kay SR13
• Ingalls SR18
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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.4, 5.0.12 and 4.3.22 are available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now.

5.1.4 is a significant refinement release, addressing several regressions and gaps that have been identified since 5.1 GA, coming as an immediate upgrade for all 5.1.x users.

Please note that 5.0.12 is the last planned 5.0.x release, with 5.0 approaching its EOL in March 2019. All 5.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade to 5.1.4+ for further fixes and refinements.

The 4.3.x line reaches an extended support phase now, with no regular…

We're please to announce the release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.0.0.M3. This 3.0 release will support Spring WebFlux and a reactive programing model, as well as additions and changes in the Open Service Broker API v2.14. This release includes:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.1.1.RELEASE (previously built against Spring Boot 2.0)
• Adds a convenience property to the various request objects for accessing the Plan for the specified ServiceDefinition

Include the following Spring Boot starter:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-open…

We're please to announce the release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.1.0. This release supports additions and changes in the Open Service Broker API v2.14. This release includes:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.0.7.RELEASE
• Support for asynchronous service instance binding and unbinding
• Support providing an updated dashboard_url when updating a service instance
• Resolves issues with deserializing the model objects that were converted to the builder pattern
• Adds a convenience property to the various request objects for accessing the Plan for the specified ServiceDefinition

Include the following…

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.0 M1 Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Hand in hand is the 2.0 M1 release of Spring Cloud Skipper which has been updated to depend upon Spring Boot 2.1. The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

Here are the highlights for Data Flow

• Stream deployment always delegates to Skipper

• Single server that runs on all supported platforms

• Update to Boot 2.1

• Standardize on OAuth2 and OpenID Connect for Security

• Update internals to use JPA

• UI improvements

• Task/Job Execution and Performance improvements

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NOTE: This is a guest post from our friends at Alibaba.

Hello everyone! Today, we’re very excited to announce that the 0.2.1.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Alibaba is available now.

Release highlights:

• Added two new modules to Spring Cloud Alibaba: spring-cloud-alibaba-schedulerx and spring-cloud-stream-binder-rocketmq.
• Added some new features in spring-cloud-alibaba-nacos and spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel.
• Fixed some bugs in the previous version.

Notes:

• The Spring Cloud Alibaba project is a community project maintained by Alibaba.

• The 0.2.1.RELEASE is compatible with Spring Cloud Finchley. Also included in this version is a 0.1.1.RELEASE, which is compatible with Spring Cloud Edgware. 0.1.1.RELEASE also contains the components and features that are new in 0.2.1.

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