Spring Framework 5.0.2 and 4.3.13 available now

Releases | Juergen Hoeller | November 27, 2017 | ...

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.0.2 and 4.3.13 are available now, as a pair of refinement releases which are recommended as immediate upgrades for all Spring users. They will also be part of the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0 M7 and 1.5.9 releases, respectively.

5.0.2 comes with significant tightening-up across the framework, including performance improvements and fine-tuned configuration variants. Many of those changes have been backported to 4.3.13 for streamlined consumption in existing applications.

Please note: Our Castor XML support is marked as deprecated now due to the inactivity of the Castor project. On a related note, we are effectively deprecating JDK 6 support in the 4.3.x line, ending our first-class efforts for it; more on this in a separate blog post

End of first-class JDK 6 support

Engineering | Juergen Hoeller | November 27, 2017 | ...

It is about time: The official end of of commercial JDK 6 support is coming up soon, with Oracle declaring December 2018 and IBM declaring April 2018 as the end of their extended support.

From a Spring perspective, we take the opportunity to deemphasize JDK 6 support on our end. We'll keep tolerating a JDK 6 runtime in the entire Spring Framework 4.3.x line for all further maintenance releases. However, we won't make compromises for JDK 6 anymore, asking you to upgrade to JDK 7+ for fixes that we'd have to work around specifically for JDK 6 on our end.

Even for JDK 7, we expect a recent patch…

Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M2 Released

Releases | Mark Pollack | November 21, 2017 | ...

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M2.

Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The 1.0 M2 release fixes several bugs and introduces a few new features.

  • Support for Postgres, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and HSQLDB databases.
  • Improved support for upgrading applications that use an HTTP location for the resource definition.
  • LRU cache used to manage disk space for HTTP and Maven based resources that are downloaded.
  • HTTP based resources are always downloaded, never cached.
  • Use updated CF Deployer library with an HTTP based health check.

This Week in Spring - November 21st, 2017

Engineering | Josh Long | November 21, 2017 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you beleive we're less than six weeks away from 2018? Time sure flies when you're having fun!

This week I'm in Los Angeles talking to community members and then taking in the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US surrounded by friends and family. Thanksgiving is a chance to reflect on that for which we are thankful. I am sure that I speak for all of us here on the Spring and Pivotal teams when I say that we are thankful for you. Thank you for making this the most amazing, dynamic, exhilarating and interesting community…

Spring Cloud Finchley.M4 Released

Releases | Spencer Gibb | November 18, 2017 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 4 (M4) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

This update is primarily for interoperability with Spring Boot 2.0.0.M6.

The following modules were updated as part of Finchley.M4:

Module Version
Spring Cloud Dependencies 2.0.0.M5
Spring Cloud Consul 2.0.0.M3
Spring Cloud Gateway 2.0.0.M4
Spring Cloud Zookeeper 2.0.0.M3
Spring Cloud Sleuth 2.0.0.M4
Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry 2.0.0.M1
Spring Cloud Config 2.0.0.M4
Spring Cloud Netflix 2.0.0.M4
Spring Cloud Contract 2.0.0.M4
Spring Cloud Security 2.0.0.M1
Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.M3
Spring Cloud Bus 2.0.0.M3
Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.M2
Spring Boot Starter 2.0.0.M6
Spring Cloud Aws 2.0.0.M2
Spring Cloud Build 2.0.0.M5
Spring Boot Dependencies 2.0.0.M6
Spring Cloud Vault 2.0.0.M4
Spring Boot 2.0.0.M6

This Week in Spring - November 14th 2017

Engineering | Josh Long | November 14, 2017 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Casablanca, Morocco for the amazing Devoxx Morocco event talking to developers in the hub of North Africa.

Can you believe it's already the middle of November? And can you believe we are less than a month away from the amazing SpringOne Platform event in San Francisco, CA? I hope you're going!

Now, without further ado, let's get to it.

Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.M2 is now available

Releases | Glenn Renfro | November 10, 2017 | ...

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.M2 is now available to download from Spring’s milestone repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to the release.

This release brings Spring Boot 2.0 M5 compatibility. With this upgrade, all dependencies are also upgraded (Spring Cloud, Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Batch, etc).

What do you think?

We look forward to your feedback on Github, StackOverflow, Gitter

Spring Cloud Task Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

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