On behalf of the Reactor team, I have the pleasure of announcing the newest Reactor milestone, Californium-M1 ? ?

The team has been busy working on Californium, the third major installment of Reactor 3. We are now ready for your feedback on a few select issues, and we have a lot of enhancements and bug fixes ready for your consumption as well.

Californium-M1 BOM

For its third release train, we continue on the theme of alphabetically increasing names on the periodic table of elements. Californium is an element first synthesized in California.

The milestone's BOM contains:

• reactor-core 3.2.0.M3
• reactor-extra 3.2.0.M1 (with a few API alignment changes)
• reactor-netty 0.8.0.M1
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that SR1 (Service Release) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Bug Fixes. Those dealing with an empty body and no content type are of note.
• Supports CORS Configuration #229
• Response Timeout Configuration #371
• Auto configuration and DSL support for Cloud Foundry route services #294
• Better error messages and error logging in certain cases.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud…

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

All users are encouraged to upgrade to these versions

Spring Integration

• 5.0.7.RELEASE

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Spring AMQP (Spring for RabbitMQ)

• 2.0.5.RELEASE.

• 1.7.9.RELEASE.

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Spring for Apache Kafka

• 2.1.8.RELEASE

• 1.3.6.RELEASE

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In addition, the first milestones of the next generations are also available:

Spring…

Dear Spring Community!

It’s my pleasure to announce first Release Candidates for Spring projects supporting Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services: Spring Integration for AWS 2.0.0.RC1 and Spring Cloud Stream Binder for AWS Kinesis 1.0.0.RC1.

Both artifacts are available in the Spring Milestone repository and they can be consumed as maven dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-integration-aws</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.0.RC1</version>
</dependency>

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first Spring Vault 2.1 milestone. This release ships with 47 tickets fixed and the highlights of this first milestone include:

• Support for Google Cloud Compute and Google Cloud IAM authentication mechanism support.
• Integration of Vault's versioned Key-Value backend through VaultKeyValueOperations
• Template API for Vault's wrapping endpoints.
• Support of full pull mode in reactive AppRole authentication. The limitation of previous versions has been lifted now.
• Improved Exception hierarchy for Vault login failures.

This release is compatible with Vault versions from 0.5.2 up to 0.10.3…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR3 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:

• Spring AMQP 2.0.5
• Spring Boot 2.0.4
• Spring Data Kay SR9
• Spring Framework 5.0.8
• Spring HATEOAS 0.25.0
• Spring Integration 5.0.7
• Spring Kafka 2.1.8
• Spring REST Docs 2.0.2
• Spring Security 5.0.7
• Spring Session Apple SR4
• Spring Web Services 3.0.3

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

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I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR12 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:

• Spring AMQP 1.7.9
• Spring Boot 1.5.15
• Spring Data Ingalls SR14

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

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just finished an online training today, Bootiful Kotlin, for O'Reilly today, and I'm doing another one on the 2nd of August (this Thursday), Reactive Spring, because the demand for the first one was so high. Don't miss it!

We've got a ton of things to look at, so without further ado, let's get to it!

• A friendly reminder that our Spring YouTube channel is awesome! There's so much good stuff and it's easy to get back to it. Just go to spring dot io dot video
• Are you using Spring Cloud Edgware? You should be aware that it's now entering it's EOL period, ending officially August 1st, 2019
• The good Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.6 GA which contains a ton of new stuff including, task scheduling on PCF, dashboard improvements, Kubernetes support…

Spring Cloud Edgware will follow the Spring Boot 1.x EOL announcement. We will cease maintenance of the Edgware release train twelve months from today, on Aug 1st 2019.

We will keep publishing occasional Edgware service releases up until that point and will then end the release train.

As a reminder, the Camden release train has reached EOL, and Dalston will reach EOL at the end of December 2018.

Existing Spring Cloud users should plan accordingly to ensure that they have upgraded to the latest Finchley+ version before that date. Also, please note that Spring Cloud Finchley and later requires…