This Week in Spring - March 27th, 2018

Engineering | Josh Long | March 27, 2018 | ...

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm hanging out in sunny San Francisco talking to local customers and working on more installments of the next season of Spring Tips.

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

Spring Security SAML DSL 1.0.5.RELEASE

Releases | Filip Hanik | March 26, 2018 | ...

The Spring Security team is proud to announce our latest 1.0.5.RELEASE of our SAML DSL project. This release works against Spring Security SAML 1.0.4.RELEASE.

This release adds a simple Java configuration option to your existing Spring Boot applications

This release requires an additional Maven repository to download the latest version of the not-yet-commons-ssl dependency.

Available on Maven Central

Feedback and contributions are always appreciated. Stay tuned.

Project Site | Reference | Help

Spring Cloud Finchley.M9 Has Been Released

Releases | Ryan Baxter | March 23, 2018 | ...

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 9 (M9) 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

Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Cloud Netflix

  • Upgraded to Eureka 1.8.7 to address thread pool issue when Eureka health check is enabled

Spring Cloud Sleuth

  • Bug Fixes
  • Further Alignment With Brave
  • Fixed interop with Spring Cloud Gateway

Spring Tool Suite 3.9.3 released

Releases | Martin Lippert | March 22, 2018 | ...

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.3 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

  • updated to Eclipse Oxygen.3 release (https://www.eclipse.org/oxygen/noteworthy/)
  • Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.2.9
  • updated to work with Spring 5 and Spring Boot 2

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.3 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.4 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse Oxygen.3a (4.7.3a) in late April 2018.

Enjoy!

It’s never been a better time to be a Spring Developer

News | Pieter Humphrey | March 21, 2018 | ...

Posting this on behalf of Mark Heckler, from the Pivotal evangelist team.

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This Week in Spring - March 20th, 2018

Engineering | Josh Long | March 21, 2018 | ...

Hi Spring fans, and welcome to the first day of the Spring season! This week I'm in San Francisco visiting some customers and just hanging out, working on new Spring Tips installments, enjoying the amazing weather. As if today wasn't exciting enough, Java 10 also shipped today! I know that all seems like enough already, but read on as we have a lot of good stuff this week!

Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.4.0 Released

Releases | Gunnar Hillert | March 19, 2018 | ...

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

This release packs in quite a few improvements including:

  • Dashboard improvements

  • Ability to manage app versions (in Skipper mode)

  • New stream deployment builder (in Skipper mode)

  • Docker compose for development

  • Security improvements

  • Proxy server support for the Shell

  • LDAP Role Mapping support

  • Documentation improvements

Dashboard Improvements

A substantial focus of the 1.4.0 release has been the Dashboard UI and its integration with Spring Cloud Skipper

Micrometer: Spring Boot 2's new application metrics collector

Engineering | Jon Schneider | March 16, 2018 | ...

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What is it?

Micrometer is a dimensional-first metrics collection facade whose aim is to allow you to time, count, and gauge your code with a vendor neutral API. Through classpath and configuration, you may select one or several monitoring systems to export your metrics data to. Think of it like SLF4J, but for metrics!

Micrometer is the metrics collection facility included in Spring Boot 2’s Actuator. It has also been backported

Spring Security SAML 1.0.4 Released

Releases | Filip Hanik | March 16, 2018 | ...

The Spring Security SAML project team is proud to announce our latest 1.0.4.RELEASE. This maintenance release pushes its dependencies to the latest known working version while staying backwards compatible.

This release requires an additional Maven repository to download the latest version of the not-yet-commons-ssl dependency.

Moving forward we will be working on our 2.0.0 release. This release aims to provide an easy upgrade path for users of the 1.0.x releases while modernizing the underlying dependencies for easy up keep.

Feedback and contributions are always appreciated. Stay tuned.

Project Site | GitHub | Reference |

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