We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.0.0.RC1 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. This release represents the first release candidate for the Spring Batch 4.0 release. Many thanks to all that contributed to this release.

What's new?

This release represents the completion of new functionality work on the 4.0.0 line. New features in Spring Batch 4 include:

• Updated baseline
• New builder APIs for out of the box components
• Updated, java configuration friendly, documentation

Updated Baseline

Spring Batch 4.0 is taking the opportunity to reset the baseline…

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 for the Spring Integration 5.0 version (5.0.0.RC1) is now available.

It can be downloaded from the Milestone Repository:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone' }
}

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.0.0.RC1"

20 JIRAs (and some GitHub issues) are included in this release, together with bug fixes and a number of new features. Some highlights of features in the RC1, since the previously announced Milestone 7:

• The components populated by the Java DSL parser are now registered as BeanDefinitions in the application context, thanks to newly introduced in the Spring Framework 5.0 Supplier-based programmatic bean registration. This approach helps us to avoid some boilerplate code for singletons registration and initialization. In addition this BeanDefinition registration may be useful in some use-case to select particular components in the application context. In fact, exactly that is used in the Spring Cloud Function project for java.util.function.* beans scanning.

• The IntegrationFlows.from(Class<?> serviceInterface) has now overloaded version with an additional beanName argument. This becomes exactly the bean name for a generates gateway proxy overriding the [flowId].gateway value:

  @Bean public IntegrationFlow uppercaseFlow() { return IntegrationFlows.from(MessageFunction.class, "uppercase") .<String, String>transform(String::toUpperCase) .get(); }

  …

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2.0.0.RC1. This release puts some final touches to preparing for 2.0.0.RELEASE. You can find the complete changelog in github, with the highlights below:

• #906 Simplified integration with the Servlet APIs. With this simplification, we have removed the support for supporting multiple sessions for a single user. We plan on looking into other ways to bring this feature back.

• #907 Support for configuring Redis session cleanup cron

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0.RC1. This release resolves 150+ issues. Below are the highlights of this release:

• WebFlux Security Highlights

  • ReactiveSecurityContextHolder

  • Reactive CSRF Support added

• OAuth 2.0 Highlights

  • OAuth 2.0 Client Support

  • OAuth2AuthorizedClient / Service

  • What’s Up Next with OAuth 2.0 Support?

• Core Highlights

  • Password Storage Updated

  • Add UnboundId LDAP inmemory support

  • Allow use of non-numeric (e.g. UUID) values for ObjectIdentity.getIdentifier()

ReactiveSecurityContextHolder

Previously, Spring Security used the ServerWebExchange.getPrincipal() as the source of truth for who was authenticated. The authenticated user was copied to Reactor’s Context to support method security which used the Reactor Context as it’s source of…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at how to use the new old framework you've probably never heard of, Spring Shell! Spring Shell supports the creation of interactive shell-based applications.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 3 (M3) 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

A common theme among many of the projects included in the Finchley release train is adding support for WebFlux, WebClient, Micrometer or other integrations within the Spring Reactive theme.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

WebFlux and Reactor are supported again. OAuth support is not included. The spring-cloud-sleuth-zipkin-stream…

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team, it is my pleasure to announce a new milestone release of Spring Cloud Pipelines - 1.0.0.M7.

What’s new?

This release adds a lot of new features and quality and testing improvements. As for main features, we’ve added Kubernetes support for Jenkins and Concourse. As for quality and testing, we’ve written over 150 Bash tests, added Shellcheck, EditorConfig and written more Jenkins tests. We’ve also unified the project’s documentation that now can be available for each milestone under Spring Cloud Static gh-pages. The docs for 1.0.0.M7 are available here - http…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco for the first, and sure-to-be-amazing, Kotlin Conf 2017. I'll be talking about Spring Boot and Kotlin, and I hope you'll join me if you're around.

We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0.0.M5 which includes, among other things, an ItemProcessor implementation that supports Java 8 Function implementations, updated documentation and much more.
• Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller announced Spring Framework 5.0.1 which includes a few bug fixes which in turn pick up fixes in Reactor Netty and welcome performance improvements in AspectJ 1.8.12.
• Last week, in another installment of Spring Tips, I looked at HTTP based contracts with Spring Cloud Contract.
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb announced the first release candidate to Spring Cloud Edgware. There are some changes to not in the artifact names for various starters. Spring Cloud Edgware has a lot of new features…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M1.

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 main features in Skipper 1.0 M1 are:

• Define multiple platform accounts where Spring Boot applications can be deployed. Supported platforms are Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.
• Substitute variables in Mustache templated files that describe how to deploy applications to a platform.
• Search Package Repositories for existing applications.
• Upgrade/Rollback a package based on a simple blue/green workflow.
• Store the history of resolved template files (aka 'application manifests') which represent the final description of what has been deployed to a platform for a specific release.
• Use via a standalone interactive shell or web API.
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