Spring Vault 2.1 is already in sight. I would like to use this post to take a deeper look at the changes and features that are in the upcoming release.

The team has been working on a whole bunch of new features:

• Extending infrastructure-based authentication to support Google Cloud IAM and Azure Managed Service Identity

• Integrating Vault’s versioned Key-Value backend

• Wrapping API support

• Java 11 compatibility

Spring Vault supports HashiCorp Vault versions 0.5 up to 0.11. You can find the Spring Vault and Spring Cloud Vault examples repository on GitHub. Now, let’s dive into the Spring…

In my previous blog article, I described how to set up and use Spring Data JDBC. I also described the premise of making Spring Data JDBC easier to understand than JPA. This becomes interesting once you consider references. As a first example, consider the following domain model:

class PurchaseOrder {

  private @Id Long id;
  private String shippingAddress;
  private Set<OrderItem> items = new HashSet<>();

  void addItem(int quantity, String product) {
    items.add(createOrderItem(quantity, product));
  }

  private OrderItem createOrderItem(int quantity, String product) {

    OrderItem…

On behalf of Spring Integration team I’m pleased to announce Release Candidates for the Spring Messaging projects. Each is based on the recently released Spring Framework 5.1 GA, has upgraded dependencies and will be part of the upcoming Spring Boot 2.1 M4 - just in time for Spring One Platform!

The artifacts for these projects are available in the Spring Milestone repository.

Please, refer to the What’s New chapter in each Reference Manual for more information about new features and notable changers for each project mentioned below.

Spring AMQP

2.1.0.RC1 release notes.

Project Page | GitHub | JIRA | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

This post was authored by Vedran Pavić

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session BOM Bean-RC1. This release is based on Spring Session 2.1.0.RC1 which resolves a total of 13 issues. Please read on for the highlights of the release.

Support for Java 11

Spring Session now supports Java 11, while the required version of course stays at Java 8. Our CI pipeline has been enhanced so that the project is now continuously verified against Java 8, 10 and 11.

Dependency Upgrades

Spring Session 2.1.0.RC1 builds on the following latest and greatest releases of key…

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, I am pleased to announce the third milestone release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG), version 1.0.0.M3.

The bits for 1.0 final GA are nearly complete. There will be 1 more development milestone (RC1) before final GA. The new 1.0.0.M3 bits can be acquired from the Spring libs-milestone repo.

What’s New

SBDG 1.0.0.M3 adds support for using Spring Boot’s Actuator feature with Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (and, by extension, Pivotal Cloud Cache, which is backed by Pivotal GemFire).

Specifically, this support includes Spring Boot HealthIndicators to assess the state and health of the…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.1 is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now! Check out our recently updated docs...

• What's New in Spring Framework 5.1
• Upgrading to Spring Framework 5.1
• Our revised reference documentation

Spring Framework 5.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. It comes with initial refinements for GraalVM compatibility and deeply integrates with the recently released Reactor Californium and Hibernate ORM 5.3.

The core container introduces…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, it's my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Data Lovelace. This release train ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.1 GA. You can easily consume Spring Data Lovelace with next week's Spring Boot 2.1 M4 release. Spring Data Lovelace ships with a number of major features, improvements, and bugfixes. The most notable topics are:

• Support for immutable objects
• Deferred JPA repository initialization
• Support for MongoDB 4.0 Client Sessions and Transactions
• New Spring Data JDBC module
• Apache Cassandra mapping improvements for Map and tuple types, Lifecycle Callbacks, and Kotlin Extensions
• Replica Reads with Spring Data Redis
…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.6 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse 2018-09 release
• added support for automatic and manual SSH tunneling to remote apps on CF for remote JMX access
• various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.6 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce the second Milestone of the Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.M2.

Individual modules of Spring Cloud Function 2.0.0.M2 are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Aside form general enhancements and bug fixes, the primary themes for this release are

• Kotlin support
• new programming model for Azure Functions (blog to follow)
• automatic (optional) export of Supplier on startup in web adapter

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-cloud-function tag…