Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! This is a super exciting week! Spring Boot 2.0 is coming! Keep your eyes on the Spring Initializr or you'll miss it! :D

Today I was at the Okta Iterate conference talking to developers who are using Spring and Okta, thanks to my buddy Matt Raible. High point? I got to meet Jeff Atwood, the co-creator of Stack Overflow!

Tomorrow, I begin a whirlwind tour over the next two weeks. First, it's off to Glasgow, Scotland; then Sydney, Australia; then Dubai; then Bangalore, India (for Agile India 2018); and then it's off to Boston, Massachusetts for the SpringOne Tour event on March 13th. If you're in any of those places, don't hesitate to reach out…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 7 (M7) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. This release is compatible with Spring Boot 2.0.0.RC2. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

Spring Cloud Netflix

• All of the code releated to Feign has been moved to a separate project, Spring Cloud OpenFeign.
• There is a known issue with the Hystrix Webflux endpoint when using Spring Boot 2.0.0.RC2. You can follow this issue in Reactor for more information.
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This is the second blog in a series of pre-release blogs in preparation for Spring Cloud Stream 2.0.0.RELEASE.

Preface

Spring Cloud Stream 2.0 introduces polled consumers, where the application can control message processing rates.

Introduction

Spring Cloud Stream has the concepts of producers and consumers; when using the messaging paradigm, MessageChannels are bound to destinations (e.g. Kafka topics, Rabbit Exchanges/Queues). To-date, on the consumer side, messages are delivered whenever an idle consumer is available. In effect, the broker controls the rate of delivery; usually, the next…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security OAuth 2.3.0.RC1.

The 2.3.0.RC1 release adds new support for Elliptic Curve signature verification in JwkTokenStore. This release also includes a few minor enhancements and bug fixes.

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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is excited to announce the release of 1.4.0 M1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

A big focus of this first milestone release of the 1.4.x line has been the Dashboard UI. In an effort to keep our UI dependencies current at all times, we finally upgraded the UI to Angular 5.2 and Angular CLI 1.6. Furthermore, the UI now provides better integration with Spring Cloud Skipper.

As such, you can now manage the versions of App Registrations and set a default version.

The version information is now shown on the App Registration list page as well. Besides providing better visual hues regarding the Application Types (Source, Sink, Task, Processor), you can now also search for App Registrations by Application Type…

This is the first blog in a series of pre-release blogs in preparation for Spring Cloud Stream 2.0.0.RELEASE.

Preface

Spring Cloud Stream 2.0 includes a complete revamp of content-type negotiation for the channel-based binders to address performance, flexibility and most importantly consistency. The following blog touches on some of the key points around what has been done, what to expect and how it may help you.

Introduction

Data transformation is one of the core features of any message-driven microservice architecture. In Spring Cloud Stream, such data is represented as a Spring Message.

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After a long and exciting journey we are pleased to announce the first Release Candidate of the Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst release train - Elmhurst.RC1/2.0.0.RC1.

Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst 2.0.0.RC1 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository. The release notes include relevant information about version compatibility with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring AMQP, and Spring for Apache Kafka.

Given that this is a Release Candidate the following section provides a brief summary of features and improvements not just included in this release but for 2.0 in general, with details to…

I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 2.1.3.RELEASE is available.

In addition, the Spring Integration extension spring-integration-kafka 3.0.2.RELEASE is also available.

While these are point releases in the 2.1.x (and 3.0.x) lines; they introduce some important new features:

Spring for Apache Kafka

Change Log

• Request/Reply messaging with the ReplyingKafkaTemplate

• pause/resume on listener containers

• default @KafkaHandler method for multi-method @KafkaListener

• ChainedKafkaTransactionManager to improve transaction synchronization scenarios

Spring Integration Kafka

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On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the 5.0.2.RELEASE maintenance version for the Spring Integration is available.

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

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.0.2.RELEASE"

As usual I would like to thank all community members for their ongoing active contributions to the framework!

Along with upgrades to the latest Spring Framework 5.0.4 and Reactor Bismuth-SR6 versions, this Spring Integration support version provides a number of bug fixes, especially for the @ServiceActivator with a collection method argument and LockRegistryLeaderInitiator…