Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that the third Spring Framework 5.0 release candidate is available!

This release comes with refined nullability declarations (including the field and bean property level), even stronger Kotlin support (with a declarative bean definition DSL and support for default constructor arguments on Kotlin data classes), as well as several API refinements in Spring WebFlux. Furthermore, Spring Framework 5.0 RC3 ships against Reactor 3.1 M3 and JUnit 5.0 M6 and is fully tested against the recent JDK 9 release candidate.

With respect to our remaining roadmap, despite being feature-complete already, we opted for an extended release candidate phase. This allows for further hardening of our revised APIs and in particular for a proper upgrade to Reactor 3.1 GA, JUnit 5.0 GA and Jackson 2.9 GA (all expected by early September). As a consequence, we are aiming for our Spring Framework 5.0 GA release in September…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0 M3. This release includes bug fixes, new features, and is based off of Spring Framework 5.0.0 RC3.

The new features included in this milestone are:

• Support added for JSON Web Token (JWT) and JSON Web Signature (JWS) via the new module spring-security-jwt-jose

• Integrated the ID Token for OpenID Connect authentication flows

Please refer to the change log for further details on this release.

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I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 5 of Spring AMQP 2.0 is now available in the Spring milestone repository.

Features and fixes since the last milestone:

• Log4j2 AmqpAppender is now thread-safe;

• DefaultMessagePropertiesConverter now correctly passes arrays for the header values to the AMQP Client library;

• Jackson2JsonMessageConverter can now be configured for the trustedPackages to fix violation for Jackson Serialization Gadgets;

• RabbitAdmin operations can now be performed on the same AMQP channel as a unit of work via RabbitTemplate.invoke();

• PossibleAuthenticationFailureException can now be treated as a non-fatal via particular option on the AbstractMessageListenerContainer;

• RepublishMessageRecoverer can now be configured for the deliveryMode for messages to republish.

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Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Istanbul, Turkey talking to customers and speaking at the Spring and Java meetups tonight. I hope you'll join me and we'll talk about cloud native Java! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 4.3.11. This release includes security updates as well as bug fixes.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.8, which is mainly a maintenance release and a bugfix release.
• Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll has announced Spring Framework 4.3.10 which is a maintenance release for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.5 maintenance release. It includes 25 fixes and improvements.
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Dalston SR2…

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Milestone 3 of the Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 version.

It is available for download from the Milestone Repository:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone' }
}
compile "org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:2.0.0.M3"

Since the previous announcement, these feature have made it into the current Milestone:

• Apache Kafka 0.11.0.0 client base line;

• With the new Apache Kafka foundation we have introduced KafkaTransactionManager and transactions support in the KafkaTemplate via new executeInTransaction() operation;

• The KafkaListenerContainer can now be supplied with the TransactionManager to perform polling and offset commits with transaction boundaries;

• The Kafka Headers support is provided as well. Now you can send and receive messages with any arbitrary headers, for example build request-reply scenarios using some correlationKey header;

• The ConsumerAwareErrorHandler is provided to manage Consumer state in case of errors;

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 2 (SR2) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

This release is primarily a bug fix release and users are encouraged to upgrade.

End of Life for Angel and Brixton release trains

The Angel and Brixton release trains have reached their end of life. As such, there will be no more releases to those trains. The community is encouraged to upgrade to Camden.SR7 or Dalston.SR2.

The following…

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

This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.5 maintenance release and includes 25 fixes and selected improvements. In particular, 4.3.10 now includes an upgrade to Objenesis 2.6 and is therefore ready for Google App Engine on Java 8.

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On behalf of the Spring Integration team, I am pleased to announce that the 4.3.11.RELEASE of Spring Integration is now available.

This release contains a few important bug fixes as well as a couple of improvements. In particular it contains a fix for the Jackson Serialization Gadgets vulnerability. Hence introduced in the version 4.3.10 custom ObjectMapper utility doesn’t allow now to deserialize objects in the untrusted packages. The set of trusted packages can be configured or you can use * to trust all. See JacksonJsonUtils.messagingAwareMapper() for more information.

Another useful fix is…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.8.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github, and the Pivotal download repository. This is the 8th maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of minor bug fixes and enhancements. One of the new features is that the DefaultDataFieldMaxValueIncrementerFactory has been updated to support InnoDB for the sequence tables used in MySql for the job repository when using Spring Framework 4.3.6+. Many thanks to all of those who submitted the many pull requests that went into this release.

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