Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.5.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse): Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution updated to Eclipse 2019-12 release
• (Eclipse) improvement: progress updates from new live hover mechanism now appears in Eclipse as well
• (Eclipse) bugfix: fixed NPE when deleting apps from CF via the boot dashboard
• (Eclipse) bugfix: finish button was disabled after selecting an org/space when creating a CF target in the boot dashboard
• (Spring Boot) improvement: better and more consistent labels for running processes in live hover actions across the board
• various improvements to the Spring Tools 4 user guide
• bugfixes
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Hot on the heels of the recent Apache Kafka 2.4.0 release, I am pleased to announce the release candidate for Spring for Apache Kafka 2.4 - 2.4.0.RC1 - is available in the Spring milestone repository.

This version is essentially functionally equivalent to 2.3.x, but is compiled against the 2.4.0 kafka-clients and supports the new incremental rebalancing protocol.

The 2.4.0 kafka clients are not binary compatible with Spring for Apache Kafka 2.3 so if you wish to use the 2.4.0 clients, you must upgrade to this version. See the appendix in the reference manual for how to override the jar…

On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) 2.1.7.RELEASE as well as 2.2.1.RELEASE.

Both releases are available in Maven Central.

What’s New

While SSDG 2.1.7.RELASE primarily aligns with the latest Spring bits in its respective line:

• Spring Framework 5.1.12.RELEASE

• Spring Boot 2.1.11.RELEASE

• Spring Data Lovelace-SR14/2.1.14.RELEASE

• Spring Session Bean-SR8/2.1.9.RELEASE

And SSDG 2.2.1.RELEASE aligns with:

• Spring Framework 5.2.2.RELEASE

• Spring Boot 2.2.2.RELEASE

• Spring Data Moore-SR3/2.2.3.RELEASE

• Spring Session Corn-RELEASE/2.2.0.RELEASE

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On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.1.4.RELEASE as well as 1.2.2.RELEASE.

Both releases are available in Maven Central.

What’s New

While SBDG 1.1.4.RELEASE primarily aligns with the latest Spring bits in its release line:

• Spring Framework 5.1.12.RELEASE

• Spring Boot 2.1.11.RELEASE

• Spring Data Lovelace-SR14/2.1.14.RELEASE

• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) Bean-SR8/2.1.7.RELEASE (NEW)

And SBDG 1.2.2.RELEASE builds on:

• Spring Framework 5.2.2.RELEASE

• Spring Boot 2.2.2.RELEASE

• Spring Data Moore-SR3/2.2.3.RELEASE

• Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) Corn-RELEASE/2.2.1.RELEASE (NEW)

• Spring Test for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (STDG) 0.0.11.RELEASE (NEW)

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With the recent release of Spring Boot 2.2, we'd like to announce that maintenance for Spring Boot 2.1 will end on November 1st 2020.

We'll keep publishing the occasional maintenance release up until that point, but we recommend that all users consider upgrading to Spring Boot 2.2 as soon as possible. Upgrading to Spring Boot 2.2 from 2.1 should not be too difficult, and upgrade instructions are available on the WIKI.

In order to help track the state of supported releases we've also introduced a new "supported versions" WIKI page. You can see at a glance which Spring Boot versions are…

The release 2.3.0 delivers a lot of enhancements and generic compatibility changes for Spring Boot 2.2.x and Spring Cloud Hoxton.

Continuous Deployment For Tasks

As task applications evolve faster to keep up with business needs, the ability for new versions to be consumed via Data Flow in an automated way is needed. While Data Flow has supported the ability to register multiple versions of a task application in previous iterations, the ability to run them in a practical way by re-hydrating command line arguments, deployment properties, and application properties used in previous executions has…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.11 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 53 fixes, improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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 on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.2 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 88 fixes, improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

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 on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am delighted to announce that Spring Data R2DBC 1.0 is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central!

Spring Data R2DBC 1.0 is a non-blocking database client library for the just released R2DBC specification that lets you build reactive applications that use SQL databases. The most notable features of Spring Data R2DBC are:

• Functional-reactive declaration of data access
• Fluent API
• Support for Transactions
• Named parameter support (Dialect-aware)
• Repositories
• Kotlin Coroutines extensions

Spring Data R2DBC 1.0 requires JDK 8 or higher and any R2DBC driver. Head over to start.spring.io and add R2DBC to configure your dependencies or, if you're already using the Spring Boot R2DBC starter, upgrade your spring-boot-bom-r2dbc to 0.1.0.M3…