I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Batch 4.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

The major feature of this release is the addition of batch metrics with Micrometer.

Batch Metrics with Micrometer

This release introduces a new feature that lets you monitor your batch jobs by using Micrometer. By default, Spring Batch collects metrics (such as job duration, step duration, item read and write throughput, and others) and registers them in Micrometer's global metrics registry under the spring.batch prefix. These metrics can be sent to any monitoring system supported by…

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

Hi! Today, we’re very excited to announce that the 0.9.0, 0.2.2, and 0.1.2 releases of Spring Cloud Alibaba are now available.

Release Highlight

Included in this GA are 3 new releases:

• Release 0.9.0: Compatible with Spring Cloud Greenwich
• Release 0.2.2: Compatible with Spring Cloud Finchley
• Release 0.1.2: Compatible with Spring Cloud Edgware

Four new modules were added to all three releases:

• spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel-zuul
• spring-cloud-alibaba-seata
• spring-cloud-alibaba-dubbo (not available in Release 0.1.2)
• spring-cloud-alibaba-sms
…

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of a 2.1.0 M1 milestone-release. Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

What’s new?

SCDF Helm Chart and Apache Kafka

With continued interest from the community, as of v2.0.2, we have now added support to toggle between RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka when using SCDF’s helm chart. Though the chart is in the PR status in Helm repository, you could still try it out and give us feedback.

Docker Compose and Apache Kafka

To continue with the same trend in regards to Apache Kafka, along with regular Apache Kafka binder properties, we have now also added support for Kafka Streams binder properties; likewise, we have switched to use the official Confluent’s Docker image as part of the Docker Compose getting-started experience…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.2.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) performance: additional performance and memory footprint improvements to symbol indexing, now eats less memory and is faster while doing the initial indexing run
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist for bean types in Spring XML config files
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist for property names in Spring XML config files
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist for bean references in property definitions in Spring XML config files (very rough early cut, needs a lot more work on proposal content, number of proposals, and sorting)
• (Eclipse) fixed: empty property values in custom properties not set when launching boot apps (#275…

We have released Spring Cloud Config 2.1.2, 2.0.4, and 1.4.6 to address CVE-2019-3799: Directory Traversal with spring-cloud-config-server. Please review the information in the CVE report and upgrade immediately.

These fixes will be included in the next release of the respective Spring Cloud release train.

NOTE: To override the version in Maven, update the dependency to include the version, such as:

<dependency>
	<groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
	<artifactId>spring-cloud-config-server</artifactId>
	<version>2.1.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

Similarly, in Gradle:

dependencies…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.2.0.M1 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What’s New?

Spring Cloud Task 2.2.0.M1 is intended to be the version of the framework aligned with Spring Boot 2.2.0. Updates from 2.0.x include:

• Update all dependencies.
• Spring Cloud Task compiles and runs on Java 8, 9, 10, 11, 12.
• Spring Cloud Task Reference documentation has been modernized.
• Bug Fixes

What Else Is Going On?

Beyond the basics to keep Spring Cloud Task up to date with the rest of the ecosystem…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.2.0.M2! This release includes 100+ updates. You can find the highlights below:

OAuth 2.0

gh-6446 - Client Support for PKCE

PKCE isn’t just for native or browser-based apps, but for any time we want to have a public client. Spring Security 5.2 introduces a secure way for backends to authenticate as public clients.

gh-5350 - OpenID Connect RP-Initiated Logout

gh-5465 - Ability to use symmetric keys with JwtDecoder

gh-5397 - Ability for NimbusReactiveJwtDecoder to take a custom processor

gh-6513 & gh-5200…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Boot 2.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes almost 100 issues and pull requests.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Spring Framework 5.2.0.M1
• @ConfigurationProperties scanning
• Immutable @ConfigurationProperties binding
• Initial RSocket Server Support
• Lazy Initialization and performance improvements

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.2 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

Hot on the heels of Spring Framework 5.2 M1 and just in time for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.2 M2 release, on behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the third milestone of the Moore release train.

Notable changes amongst many others:

• Flow extensions for Kotlin coroutines in Spring Data for Apache Cassandra & MongoDB.
• MongoDB Json Schema generation from domain Types.
• Support for BINARY storage type in Spring Data JDBC.
• Alternative EntityMapper for Elasticsearch.
• Improved Geospatial query support for Neo4j.
• Smarter Redis cluster topology caching.

Please find a high-level overview of what has been added in our release wiki. As always, we’re looking forward to your feedback! -> @SpringData…