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On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode, Pivotal GemFire and Pivotal Cloud Cache communities, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode, Pivotal GemFire and Pivotal Cloud Cache (PCC) 1.1.2.RELEASE as well as 1.2.0.RC1.

SBDG 1.1.2.RELEASE builds on Spring Boot 2.1.9.RELEASE and is available in Maven Central.

SBDG 1.2.0.RC1 builds on Spring Boot 2.2.0.RC1 and is available in the Spring Milestone Repository.

Additionally, SBDG 1.2.0.RC1 bits can be included in a project generated with the Spring Initializer at https://start.spring.io. Simply type "Geode" in the "Search dependencies to add" input field and you will see the "Spring for Apache Geode" dependency appear as an option you can add. This includes the spring-geode-starter…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the release candidate for Spring Boot 2.2.0 is available from our milestone repository. This release contains 130 issues and pull requests.

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.

We plan to make Spring Boot 2.2 generally-available in mid-October. Now is a great time to try out Spring Boot 2.2 and provide feedback so that we can try and fix things before GA. If you want to get started with 2.2 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io…

Hello Reactor community,

On behalf of the Reactor team and its heroic new contributors, I am delighted to announce that Reactor Dysprosium can now be found on your preferred Maven repositories, like this one.

It is the fourth release train since Reactor Core 3.x and it includes Reactor Core 3.3, Reactor Netty 0.9 and a newcomer, Reactor Pool 0.1. Check out the major change logs and release notes:

• reactor-core 3.3.0.RELEASE
• reactor-netty 0.9.0.RELEASE
• reactor-pool 0.1.0.RELEASE

Reactor Dysprosium modules still require JDK 8 or higher. They come with many performance improvements and we even…

The 12th Service Release for Californium is out. As per tradition, it fixes several issues and bring improvements all around.

The release is available on your preferred maven central repository.

Change logs and release notes:

• reactor-core 3.2.12.RELEASE
• reactor-netty 0.8.12.RELEASE

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With Dysprosium-RELEASE, our reactor-core 3.1.x and reactor-netty 0.7.x lines will not receive further patches. We encourage our users to update to Californium releases trains, which match Spring Boot 2.1.x and Spring Framework 5.1.x.

If you already are using Spring Boot 2.2.x and Spring Framework 5.2.x, you will be required to use Dysprosium including reactor-core 3.3.x and reactor-netty 0.9.x…

Dear Spring Community,

On behalf of Spring Integration team I’m excited to announce that Spring Integration 5.2.0.RELEASE is available.

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

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.2.0.RELEASE"

What’s New in this generation?

• RSocket Support - an RSocketInboundGateway and RSocketOutboundGateway are implemented for Reactive Streams support in the RSocket protocol. See spring-integration-rsocket module.

• FluxAggregatorMessageHandler to produces window or buffer results based on the Project Reactor Flux grouping and windowing functionality.

• RateLimiterRequestHandlerAdvice and CacheRequestHandlerAdvice are available for AOP aspects around MessageHandler.handleMessage().

• JSR223 implementation for Kotlin Scripts has been added into spring-integration-scripting module.

• The FTP and SFTP modules now provide an event listener for certain Apache Mina FTP/SFTP server events.

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We are pleased to announce the following releases are now available.

All users are encouraged to upgrade to these versions

• 2.3.0.RELEASE (new)

• 2.2.9.RELEASE (maintenance)

The 2.3.0 release is the first release of the newest line for this project.

Refer to the What’s New chapter for more information, but here are a few highlights:

Producing

• Option to use a producer per thread, to avoid blocking other threads when flushing.

• The AggregatingReplyingKafkaTemplate extension to the ReplyingKafkaTemplate is provided to aggregate replies from multiple consumers.

Consuming

• You can now add a RecordInterceptor to modify the record before the listener is invoked.

• ConsumerSeekAware now supports relative seeks.

• You can now specify a delay between processing the results of the previous poll() and issuing the next poll().

• When using manual AckMode s, you can now negatively acknowledge a record and the container will perform the necessary seeks to replay the record.

• Micrometer Timer s are now supported to monitor listener performance.

• The SeekToCurrentErrorHandler can be configured to treat certain exceptions as fatal, disabling retry; you can also now add a BackOff between redelivery attempts for failed deliveries.

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On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) 2.1.6.RELEASE and 2.2.0.RC1.

SSDG 2.1.6.RELEASE is available in Maven Central and SSDG 2.2.0.RC1 can be acquired from the Spring Milestone Repository.

Both SSDG 2.1.6.RELEASE and 2.2.0.RC1 are included in the Spring Session Bean-SR9 and Corn-RC1 BOM files, which will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.1.9.RELEASE and the Spring Boot 2.2.0.RC1 releases, respectively.

Additionally, SSDG 2.1.6.RELEASE will be picked up by the Spring Boot for Apache Geode (SBDG) 1.1.2.RELEASE and SSDG 2.2.0.RC1 will be picked up by Spring Boot for Apache Geode 1.2.0.RC1…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.9 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 40 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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