Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Paris, France, for the amazing Voxxed Microservices event. This has been quite the show and I'm grateful for having had the opportunity to be there. Now, as I write this, I'm preparing to go to Beijing, China, for the first leg in Asia of the SpringOne Tour show. I'll be in China, then Japan, then Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Los Angeles, Morocco, Seattle, Toronto, and then finally - in mid December - I'll return home to San Francisco. We've got a ton of things to look at this week so, without…

Hi! Today, we're very excited to announce the first preview release of Spring Cloud Alibaba.

The Spring Cloud Alibaba project, consisting of Alibaba's open-source components and several Alibaba Cloud products, aims to implement and expose well known Spring Framework patterns and abstractions to bring the benefits of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud to Java developers using Alibaba products.

NOTE: The Spring Cloud Alibaba project is a community project maintained by Alibaba.

NOTE: Version 0.2.0.RELEASE is compatible with the Spring Boot 2.0.x line. Version 0.1.0.RELEASE is compatible with the…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.2 is available now.

This maintenance release of the 5.1 line includes 30 fixes and improvements.

After its Milestone and RC phase, Spring Boot 2.1.0 GA will be released this week, shipping with this new Spring Framework version!

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We are pleased to announce the first Release Candidate of the Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.RC1.

Individual modules of Spring Cloud Function 2.0.0.RC1 are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Aside form general enhancements and bug fixes, This release encompasses the following:

• Kotlin support
• New programming model for Azure Functions
• Automatic (optional) export of Supplier on startup in web adapter
• Functional Bean Registrations
• Support for transparent type conversion for functions with input of type Collection
• Builds on Spring Boot 2.1

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…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Lovelace SR2 maintenance release. This release builds on the just-released Spring Framework 5.1.2 service release. Lovelace SR2 is the version that you will get with Spring Boot 2.1 GA that is scheduled for the next few days. If you use Spring Boot 2.0.x and want to consume this service release, you can set the version property (spring-data-releasetrain.version) to Lovelace-SR2.

This service releases ships with 32 tickets fixed.

To round things off, here are the links to the individual changelogs, documentation…

I am pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Kafka 2.2.0.RELEASE is now available.

While the 2.1.x release is compatible with the 2.0.0 kafka-clients jar, (since 2.1.9), this version requires 2.0.0 (and provides a 2.0.0 embedded broker for testing).

Highlights

• The SeekToCurrentErrorHandler can now "skip" records that fail repeatedly

• Such "skipped" records can be published to a dead-letter topic (or otherwise disposed of by application code)

  • Headers are added with diagnostics about the failure

• When using transactions, the same functionality can be achieved with the default AfterRollbackProcessor

• You can now use the listener container factory to create any arbitrary listener container, not just containers for @KafkaListener s

  • This allows more convenient use of Spring Boot’s auto configuration properties for any container

• @KafkaListener annotations can now override the container factory’s concurrency and autoStartup properties

  …

On behalf of Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the 5.1.0.RELEASE for the Spring Integration is available.

It can be downloaded from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.1.0.RELEASE"

First of all I would like to thank all community members for their ongoing active contributions to the framework!

Besides the regular dependencies upgrades, bug fixes and internal performance improvements here are some notable new features introduced in this version:

BoundRabbitChannelAdvice

For strict ordering of messages publishing a BoundRabbitChannelAdvice can be used as a MessageHandler advice to allow to perform all the downstream AMQP operations in the same thread-bound Channel…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.0.RELEASE is now available.

What's New in Spring Batch 4.1 GA

This release adds the following features:

• A new @SpringBatchTest annotation to simplify testing batch components
• A new @EnableBatchIntegration annotation to simplify remote chunking and partitioning configuration
• Support for reading and writing data in JSON format
• Support for validating items with the Bean Validation API
• Support for JSR-305 annotations
• Enhancements to the FlatFileItemWriterBuilder API

@SpringBatchTest Annotation

Spring Batch provides some nice utility classes (such as the JobLauncherTestUtils and JobRepositoryTestUtils) as well as test execution listeners (StepScopeTestExecutionListener and JobScopeTestExecutionListener) to test batch components. However, in order to use these utilities, you must configure them explicitly. This release introduces a new annotation named @SpringBatchTest…

Good things come in pairs, so I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) 2.0.6.RELEASE and 2.1.0.RELEASE.

SSDG 2.0.6.RELEASE, based on Spring Framework 5.0.10.RELEASE, Spring Data Kay-SR11 and Spring Session core 2.0.7.RELEASE mainly contains dependency updates.

SSDG 2.1.0.RELEASE, on the other hand, has been upgraded to Spring Framework 5.1.1.RELEASE, Spring Data Lovelace-SR1 and Spring Session core 2.1.0.RELEASE, and additionally includes support for custom Session expiration policies and rules.

Custom Session Expiration Configuration

Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire now provides a new Strategy interface, SessionExpirationPolicy…