We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Data Flow’s Cloud Foundry 1.0.0.M4.

In this milestone release, we have few improvements to the APIs and the general stability of the overall design constructs.

• Builds upon 1.0.0.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Data Flow Core (shell, UI, REST-APIs, etc.)

• Streamlines application vs. deployment property semantics

• Adds a migration guide and other documentation fragments to the reference documentation

• Adds a project site

Journey Ahead

• We are looking forward to Reactor and Cloud Foundry Java Client’s RC and GA releases and by this month, we shall release 1.0.0.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry.

• We have exciting work-in-progress to orchestrate short-lived microservices through TaskLauncher constructs in the Spring Cloud Deployer for Cloud Foundry project. We are hopeful to deliver the BETA release of this functionality alongside the upcoming Pivotal Cloud Foundry’s 1.7.x release.

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We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Data Flow's Kubernetes 1.0.0.RELEASE.

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes provides support for orchestrating long-running (streaming) and short-lived (task/batch) data microservices on Kubernetes.

This project was originally conceptualized by the community and we are thankful to Florian Rosenberg for his early contributions that eventually made it into the official Spring Cloud Deployer for Kubernetes project. Building upon this theme, we recently bumped into Donovan Muller's blog, where he walks through his experience extending the…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Task 1.0.1.RELEASE. This is the recommended GA release for Spring Cloud Task and is available from Maven Central as well as the usual other locations.

How did we get here?

Spring Cloud Task, is a step in an evolution of data applications in the Spring portfolio. As we announce this release, it may be helpful to look at how we got to this point.

It began with Spring Batch

Built upon the Spring portfolio, the evolution of this type of finite workload really began with Spring Batch. One of the main workload specific extensions of the Spring framework, Spring Batch provided functionality for performing finite amounts of processing in an enterprise friendly way. With multiple processing models (Tasklet vs Chunk) as well as scalability options that allowed for…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 3 of the Spring Cloud Brixton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

Included in this release is the GA release of Spring Cloud Task.

Other than the addition of Spring Cloud Task, this release includes primarily bug fixes.

The following modules were updated as part of Brixton.SR3:

• Spring Cloud Security 1.1.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.0.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Task 1.0.1.RELEASE

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either on GitHub, on gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter…

I’m pleased to announce that the Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.2 M1 is available now!

First of I’d like to thank everyone who created issues, raised Pull Requests, provided feedback or just asked questions on StackOverflow. Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today!

The artifact org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-java-dsl:1.2.0.M1 is available in the Milestone repo. So, give it a shot and don’t hesitate to raise a GH issue for any feedback!

Some highlights of the current iteration:

Apache Kafka 0.9 support

Based on the recently released Spring for Apache Kafka project, a new Kafka09 factory has been introduced. This is straightforward Java DSL factory for producing IntegrationComponentSpec fluent API builders for adapters based on the a Spring for Apache Kafka foundation. An existing Kafka factory for Apache Kafka 0.8…

Spring Framework 4.3.1 and Spring Security 4.1.1 provide fixes for CVE-2016-5007 "Spring Security / MVC Path Matching Inconsistency".

Applications using Spring Security and Spring MVC should upgrade to Spring Security 4.1.1+ and Spring Framework 4.3.1+ and use the MvcRequestMatcher.

Additional details and further mitigations can be found in CVE-2016-5007.

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 2.0.6.RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring Boot 1.3.6.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.2.7.RELEASE
• Spring Integration 4.2.8.RELEASE
• Spring REST Docs 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Spring Retry 1.1.3.RELEASE
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.10.RELEASE

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.1.RELEASE which resolves over 50 issues. This release provides mitigation for CVE-2016-5007 There are also lots of bug fixes, but there are also a few notable enhancements.

• MvcRequestMatcher provides deep integration with Spring MVC to ensure consistent path matching strategies for authorization rules

• CORS Support that can leverage Spring MVC’s CORS configuration

• CookieCsrfTokenRepository.withHttpOnlyFalse() for easily integrating with AngularJS applications

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.0 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Neon 4.6 GA
• all new Spring Boot code templates
• improved Spring Boot YML and property editors (more advanced content-assist, quick-fixes, and more)
• many small improvements to improve developer productivity
• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.1.4

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 3.8.0 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!