On behalf of the Spring Integration team, I am pleased to announce that the 4.3.10.RELEASE of Spring Integration is now available.

This release contains a few important bug fixes as well as a couple of improvements.

One of the most interesting feature is customized Jackson ObjectMapper which is aware of Message and MessageHeaders serialization/deserialization to/from JSON. This functionality is useful in those components which allow to configure custom serializer/deserializer, for example RedisMessageStore:

RedisMessageStore store = new RedisMessageStore(redisConnectionFactory);

ObjectMapper…

We are pleased to announce that these maintenance releases of Spring AMQP are now available, 1.6.10.RELEASE and 1.7.3.RELEASE.

These versions include several bug fixes and improvements.

Both these versions are included in upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.7 and 1.5.4, respectively.

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We are pleased to announce that these maintenance releases of Spring for Apache Kafka are now available, 1.2.2.RELEASE and 1.1.6.RELEASE.

These versions include several bug fixes and improvements.

They are functionally equivalent; the 1.2.2.RELEASE is based on the 0.10.2.0 kafka-clients jar and 1.1.6.RELEASE can be used with 0.10.0.x and 0.10.1.x.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.3 which fixes CVE-2017-4995. Users are encouraged to update immediately.

For additional changes included in this, refer to the changelog.

Note

Spring Boot users can update to Spring Boot 1.5.4 or customize the Spring Security version using spring-security.version.

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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of Ingalls SR4 and Hopper SR11 service releases. Both of them ship 60 issues fixed in total. Service releases are bugfix ones and recommended upgrades for all users. The releases are going to be picked up by the upcoming Boot 1.5 and 1.4 services releases for your convenience.

The complete list of issues fixed for Ingalls SR4 can be found here, the one for Hopper SR 11 here.

Spring Data Ingalls SR4

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.7 is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.4.7 includes over 30 changes, mostly a selection of dependency upgrades and documentation improvements. Thanks to all that have contributed!

We expect Spring Boot 1.4.7 to be the last maintenance release in the 1.4 line. If you haven't upgraded to 1.5.x yet, we advise you to do so as soon as possible.

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-boot tag…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.9 is available now.

This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.7 and 1.5.4 maintenance releases and includes 30 fixes and selected improvements.

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On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce a new milestone release of Spring Cloud Pipelines - 1.0.0.M5.

What’s new?

With 1.0.0.M5 we’ve added a new step in the Build stage called API Compatibility check. Now, your pipeline can break when, as a HTTP / messaging producer, you’re doing a backward incompatible change. We’re checking what were the latest contracts you’ve defined for your most recent production deployment and from those contracts we’re generating tests to your current application.

You can read more about this feature in Spring Cloud Pipelines Docs

Also, the…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Malaysia and then Singapore where I'll spend time with customers in the financial services world and speak at the Singapore Spring User Group on June 8th. If you're around, come out or say hi!

• Spring IO Platform lead and Spring Boot ninja Andy Wilkinson just announced the Gradle Dependency management plugin 1.0.3
• Spring web guru has just announced Spring Web Flow 2.4.5
• the Baeldung blog has a nice look at Spring Boot and Kotlin
• Ranga Karanam put together a nice look at building web applications with Spring Boot
• I liked this blog offering tips and tricks for using the compile-time annotation processor Lombok in production application. Lombok is not a Spring project, obviously, but it's easy to use with Spring and it's available on the Spring Initializr [as a dependency].
• I reallly enjoyed some of the replies in the Quora post …