It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.3 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.3 adds over 60 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates to the 70 issues fixed in Spring Boot 1.4.6. Thanks to all that have contributed!

What's next?

The first release candidate of Spring Framework 5 is really around the corner now. We intend to release a first milestone of Spring Boot 2 the week after with support for Spring WebFlux, the new Gradle plugin and more! If you want to try those now, and we’d love to hear your feedback if you do, please go to start.spring.io and select Spring Boot 2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT…

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce a new milestone release of Spring Cloud Pipelines - 1.0.0.M4.

What’s new?

Apart from some bug and documentation fixes it contains a community feature done by Łukasz Szczęsny with support for Jenkins Declarative Pipeline with Blue Ocean. This is how it looks like

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

Links

Please check out any of these links for more information or to contact us:

• Project page

• Project documentation

• Concourse opinionated pipeline setup

• Concourse Website

• Jenkins opinionated pipeline setup

• Spring Cloud Pipelines Gitter

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.6 is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.4.6 includes 70 fixes and a selection of improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all that have contributed!

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.

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.

Note: A great way to start using this new release is to follow the Getting Started Guide in the reference documentation.

Highlights of the 1.2 RC1 release:

Composed Tasks

This release introduces Composed Tasks ! This feature provides the ability to orchestrate a flow of tasks as a cohesive unit-of-work. A complex ETL pipeline may include executions in sequence, parallel, conditional transitions, or a combination of all of the above. The composed task feature comes with DSL primitives and an interactive graphical interface to quickly build these type of topologies more easily. You can read more about it from the reference guide…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.8 is available now.

This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.6 and 1.5.3 maintenance releases and includes 40 fixes and selected improvements.

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Atlanta, GA, at DevOps Days Atlanta, and Boston for the Agile Tech Alliance conference. If you're around for either I'd love to see you - say hi!

Don't miss me, Spring Team members, and community speakers at the upcoming Spring Days Chicago, New York and Atlanta events!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• The WebFlux functional reactive support in Spring Framework 5.0 is really catching on! I particularly enjoyed this post called Spring: Your Next Microframework
• Baeldung has a great post introducing WebFlux Functional Reactive Endpoints
• Jonathan Borenstein put together a simple demonstration looking at building functional REST services with Spring Framework 5.0
• Hurray! The Spring Cloud Dalston release is now GA! Get the bits and try it out! This release is packed with great new stuff!
• Spring Cloud Task ninja Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.RC1
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Marius Bogoevici …

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.RC1 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.RC1 offers the following features:

• Upgrade to Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea GA.
• Renamed closecontext.enable to closecontext.enabled as to match the Spring Boot style for enabled properties.
• Task name can be set when creating a TaskExecution externally, allowing the launcher to set the name in a persistent manor.
• Added Ordered Interface to Task Events and Batch Job Events so the user can establish when task or batch events are emitted from their Spring Cloud Task application.
• Cleaned up Spring Cloud Task dependencies.
• Update default task name creation to prevent conflicts with JMX.
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On behalf of the community, I am happy to announce the general availability of the Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea release train. For this release train, the first general availability release is Chelsea.SR1, which fixes a number of issues over Chelsea.RELEASE (all within the scope of the metrics export feature). Chelsea.SR1 is also included as part of Spring Cloud Dalston.RELEASE.

The new release is available in Maven Central, and a detailed description of its features can be found in the reference documentation. For information about artifacts and most recent changes, please consult the release…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the second milestone of the release train Kay. The release is an important step towards a second generation of Spring Data.

We've upgraded the majority of the codebase to Java 8, now also embracing e.g. Optional in method signatures. This mostly affects internal SPIs but also leaks into user code, especially in CrudRepository. The support for reactive Spring Data repositories has been extended to Couchbase (Thanks, Subhashni!), the Redis module has a reactive template API now. The release also ships support for IsEmpty and IsNotEmpty for derived queries and implementaitons of those for MongoDB and JPA. The aggregation framework in MongoDB now also supports…