Dear Spring Community,

It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Integration AWS 1.0.0.RELEASE is available now.

As usual, thanks to the community for any feedback and contributions!

This release contains several critical bug fixes (mostly community driven) and aligns requirements of the upcoming Spring Cloud Stream Application Starters release.

We haven’t added any new features since the latest announcement and have concentrated mostly on improvements, bug fixes and integration testing, to deliver this product as soon as possible. For the next 1.1 version we would like to hear from you about priorities since there are still many Amazon features…

Dear Spring community,

I’m pleased to announce that a number of Spring Integration 4.x.x (4.3.1, 4.2.9, 4.1.9, 4.0.9) maintenance versions have been released. It’s strongly recommended for everyone to upgrade because these releases contain some important bug fixes and improvements.

We do not anticipate releasing more versions of the for 4.1.x and 4.0.x branches. If you use these in your projects, consider upgrading to 4.3.x as soon as possible.

While you can find all the changes for 4.3.1 in its Release Notes, here are some highlights:

• It is a foundation for upcoming Spring Boot 1.4 GA;

• Routers can now resolve channelKey as a Class<?> correctly. Previously such a configuration produced the following exception:

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On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce the 1.0.0.M1 release of the new Spring Cloud project called Spring Cloud Contract. You can grab it from the Spring’s milestone repository or even better - go to start.spring.io and pick it from there.

Spring Cloud Contract

The microservice approach has plenty of benefits but also introduces complexity. This is an inevitable result of working with distributed systems: with increasing complexity inevitably more questions are posed. In this article we show how to test microservices and create a better API by using the Consumer…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.1.1.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a number of bug fixes and is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs users.

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A new Spring Web Flow 2.4.4 maintenance release is now available for download or use from Maven and Gradle builds. This release extends compatibility to Hibernate 5.2 and also includes several mainly JSF related fixes.

In this article we continue the series on Reactive Programming, and the focus is less on learning the basic APIs and more on more concrete use cases and writing code that actually does something useful. We will see how Reactive is a useful abstraction for concurrent programming, but also that it has some very low level features that we should learn to treat with respect and caution. If we start to use these features to their full potential we can take control of layers in our application that previously were invisible, hidden by containers, platforms and frameworks.

Bridging from Blocking to…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, and Los Angeles and San Francisco, California talking to customers and doing meetups.

This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there's so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year's SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It's an amazing time to build applications, and SpringOne Platform is in a unique position to capture the larger discussion: why do we #devops, #cloud, #agile, or #microservice…

It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring AMQP 1.6.1 maintenance release is available now.

As usual, thanks to the community for any feedback and contribution all the ways!

This release contains several critical bug fixes, therefore an upgrade is highly recommended.

We haven’t switched master branch to 2.0 yet, but that is really our intention in the nearest future to start enjoying a new Spring 5.0 and Java 8 foundation for Spring AMQP project code base!

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It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring for Apache Kafka 1.0.2 maintenance release is available now.

As usual, thanks to the community for any feedback and contribution all the ways!

This release contains several critical bug fixes, therefore an upgrade is highly recommended. The master branch has now switched to 1.1 and we are starting migrating to Kafka 0.10 and other features on the matter with possible Milestone 1 later this month.

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For more details about Spring for Apache Kafka , check Gary Russell’s session at SpringOne Platform, which is taking place in Las Vegas between August 1-4 this year. There are many other great talks so check the agenda and get your ticket…