Speakers: Mark Fisher & Mark Pollack, Pivotal The future of scalable data processing is microservices! Building on the ease of development and deployment provided by Spring Boot and the cloud native capabilities of Spring Cloud, the Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Task projects provide a simple and powerful framework for microservice stream and batch processing. At a higher level of abstraction, Spring Cloud Data Flow is an integrated orchestration layer that provides a highly productive experience for deploying and managing sophisticated data pipelines consisting of standalone…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I'm in Chennai, India, en route to Bangalore, India for a day of exciting customer meetings and then I'm off to sunny Barcelona, Spain, for the epic Spring IO event! Then, this Friday, I'm off to Kiev, Ukraine, for JEEConf. If you're around, as always, don't be shy and say hi!. That said, let's get into it!

• The BIG news: Spring Cloud Brixton is now available! Get the bits from the Spring Initializr. If you'll permit a little back-patting, I submit that you might get a good feel for what concerns a technology like Spring Cloud addresses by reading this article I wrote and you'll learn how Spring Boot and Spring Cloud are used in this video. That said, grab the bits and go!
• Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.0 is here, at long last! Spring Cloud stream makes it simple to build collaborating messaging-based microservices.
• Spring Boot co-lead Phil Webb just announced that Spring Boot 1.4.0.M3 is now available, just in time…

Spring Boot v1.4.0.M3 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release closes over 150 issues and introduces a number of new features.

Highlights include:

• Lots of bug fixes and improvements over M2 (thanks to everyone for trying the milestones).
• Convention based error pages (want a custom 404, just add src/main/resources/public/error/404.html).
• Improved ErrorPage registration support.
• Support for pluggable OAuth2 Principal extraction.

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.4 Release Notes on the WIKI and the updated reference documentation…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.1.0.RELEASE. The highlights of this release include:

• #380 - Support for Spring Data Hopper
• #384 - Early support for Spring IO Platform 2.1
• #351 - Support for commons-pool2
• #370 - Support property placeholders in XML Namespace
• #392 - Document Testing Support
• Migrated from JIRA to GitHub Issues
• Added Gitter Chat

For complete details of 2.1 refer to the changelog for 2.1.0.RC1 and 2.1.0.RELEASE

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe (our latest full time Spring Security team member) @joe_grandja…

Following on from Spring Boot 1.3.5.RELEASE which fixed a regression, Spring IO Platform 2.0.5.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 to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Spring AMQP 1.5.6.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.3.5.RELEASE

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I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Integration 4.3.0.RC1 - the first (and final) release candidate; it is available from the spring milestone repo The GA release should follow shortly after the GA release of Spring Framework 4.3.

4.2.6.RELEASE is also available in the spring release repo as well as maven central. This release includes a few important bug fixes and all users are encouraged to upgrade to it.

4.3 is only a minor release with a few new features and improvements over 4.2 and will close out the 4.x line. Meanwhile we are looking forward to embrace the Reactive Foundation for the JVM in Spring Integration 5.0. We have yet to determine exactly what that means, so stay tuned! In addition, 5.0 (2017) will include the (currently separate) Spring Integration Java DSL…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.2.0.RELEASE. This release evolved through 1.2.0 RC1, 1.2.0.RC2, 1.2.0.RC3, and 1.2.0.RELEASE closing over 60 issues.

What’s New in Spring Session 1.2.0

You can find highlights of what's new in the What’s New in Spring Session 1.2.0 section of the reference. For details refer to the changlog links above.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn't be the successful project we are today. I'd like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe (our latest full time Spring Security team member) @joe_grandja…

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

We would like to thank many community contributors and testers for their help. There have been many pull requests, issues and conversations that have made Spring Cloud Brixton better.

Highlights

Some of the highlights of the Brixton Release Train are:

• Spring Boot 1.3.x and Spring Framework 4.2.x support
• Hashicorp Consul support for service registration/discovery & configuration via Spring Cloud Consul
• Apache Zookeeper support for service registration/discovery, configuration via Spring Cloud Zookeeper and leader election in Spring Cloud Cluster
• Distributed tracing through the Spring Cloud Sleuth abstraction with two out of the box implementations: one supporting logging (ideal for log collectors and multiplexers like Logstash and Loggregator) and one supporting Twitter's Zipkin
• Netflix Atlas Telemetry System, the next generation Spectator Metrics library…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.0.RELEASE. The artifacts can be found in Spring Repository as well as Maven Central.

The goal of Spring Cloud Stream is to be a lightweight framework for developing event-driven microservices, building on the ease of development and deployment of Spring Boot, and the component model and integration capabilities of Spring Integration. As part of the Spring Cloud family of projects, it has a specific focus on cloud-native architectures.

In order to simplify the development of both streaming and…