Beginning today, we enter a new chapter in the tooling landscape for Spring and the development of enterprise applications built on top of the de-facto standard, Spring Boot. By unveiling the public beta of the next generation of our Spring tooling, we allow developers around the globe to get a preview of what is coming next to improve their developer experience around Spring and Spring Boot.

Spring Aware

The all-new Spring Tools 4 analyze your projects on the fly, understand the Spring constructs inside, and provide easy and super quick navigation to all your Spring elements. Finding a…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.0.0.RELEASE is now available through Github, the Pivotal download repository, and Maven Central. This is the generally available release of the 4.0 line. Many thanks to all that contributed to this release.

How We Got Here

Spring Batch 4 is the first major version release of Spring Batch since 3.0 went out in 2014. A lot has changed in the Spring ecosystem since that version went out. This release is intended to bring Spring Batch up to date with those changes. When Spring Batch 3 came out, Java configuration was just beginning to take over…

I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring for Apache Kafka 2.1.0.RELEASE.

In addition, maintenance releases 1.3.2.RELEASE and 2.0.2.RELEASE are available, containing important bug fixes. See also below for information about spring-integration-kafka 3.0.0.RELEASE. It is recommended that all users upgrade.

The main purpose of the 2.1 release is to upgrade the kafka-clients library to 1.0.0, but we have included a few improvements:

• Sometimes, when a message can’t be processed, you may wish to stop the container so the condition can be corrected and the message re-delivered. The framework now provides the ContainerStoppingErrorHandler for record listeners and ContainerStoppingBatchErrorHandler for batch listeners.

• The KafkaAdmin now supports increasing partitions when a NewTopic bean is detected with a larger number of partitions than currently exist on the topic.

• StringJsonMessageConverter and JsonSerializer/JsonDeserializer now pass and consume type information in Headers. This allows multiple types to be easily sent/received on the same topic:

  @SpringBootApplication public class Kafka21Application {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
      SpringApplication.run(Kafka21Application.class, args)
          .close();
  }
  
  @Bean
  public ApplicationRunner runner(KafkaTemplate<Object, Object> template) {
      return args -> {
          template.send(MessageBuilder.withPayload(42)
                  .setHeader(KafkaHeaders.TOPIC, "blog")
                  .build());
          template.send(MessageBuilder.withPayload("4…

On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.0.M7 has been released and is now available from our milestone repository. This release closes 165 issues and pull requests and continues our progress towards 2.0 GA. Thanks to everyone that has contributed!

This release refines a number of items from previous milestones, and provides a number of notable new features:

• Condition evaluation report deltas on Devtools triggered restart
• A new scheduled tasks actuator endpoint
• Support for Duration types in configuration properties (e.g. 5ms, 1s, 10m)
• Reactive Couchbase support
…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR6 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• AspectJ 1.8.13
• Spring Boot 1.5.9
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.5
• Spring Data Ingalls-SR9
• Spring Framework 4.3.13
• Spring Kafka 1.1.7
• Spring LDAP 2.3.2
• Spring Web Services 2.4.2

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.M3 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow and its associated ecosystem of projects.

Local Server: Getting Started Guide

Release Highlights

Stream updates and rollback

A streaming data pipeline orchestrated as a series of microservice applications has always been the core value of Spring Cloud Data Flow’s design. In 1.3.0.M3 we have provided the ability to update sources, processors, and sinks independently without having to undeploy and redeploy the entire stream.

The stream update feature is implemented by delegating the deployment process to a new Spring Cloud project called Skipper. Introduced in this blog, Spring Cloud Skipper is a standalone server that deploys Spring Boot applications to multiple cloud platforms. It also keeps track of the application version, application properties, and deployment properties of the deployed application or applications so that the changes to any of these…

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the GA release for the Spring Integration 5.0 version (5.0.0.RELEASE) is now available.

It can be downloaded from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.0.0.RELEASE"

First of all, special thanks to all community members for their ongoing active contributions to the framework!

Several JIRAs (and some GitHub issues), since the previously announced RC1, are included in this release, mostly bug fixes from early adopters and Reference Manual…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce 1.7.5 and 2.0.1 maintenance releases of Spring AMQP. They are available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository.

These versions are mostly bug fixes and recommended for everyone to upgrade.

The version 2.0.1 is a foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0 M7 release.

Thanks to all the community contributors for various feedback and pull requests.

We hope to see you at SpringOne Platform next week. It will be packed with many Spring talks, opportunities to learn about the latest and greatest features and of course some…

On behalf of everyone who contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.0.RELEASE has been released and is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository

What's new?

Spring REST Docs 2.0 is the latest generation of the project and requires Spring Framework 5.0 and Java 8.

The main highlight of the 2.0 release is support for using Spring WebFlux's WebTestClient to document an API. WebTestClient can be used for lightweight testing and documentation of APIs implemented using WebFlux Fn and WebFlux's annotation-based programming model. It can also be used…