I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-SR3 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 AMQP 1.6.7
• Spring Boot 1.4.4
• Spring Data Hopper SR7
• Spring Framework 4.3.6
• Spring Integration 4.3.7

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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If you are joining the Spring Team at the SOLD OUT DevNexus 2017 event in Atlanta, GA on February 22-24 2017, here's where you can find us and other Pivotal experts!

Pivotal is sponsoring and will be at booth # 7 from 9am-3pm on Thursday Feb 23, and 9am - 6pm on Friday Feb 24.

We will have experts available at the booth to talk to you about Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Cloud Foundry, and much more. Don’t miss these talks and workshops from Spring & Pivotal leaders on Cloud-Native, Reactive Spring, and much more!

Wed Feb 22 - Workshops (Full Day)

Cloud Native Java Workshop - Josh Long WS Room A312 9:0…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Dalston Release Train

Spring Cloud Vault Config is a new project that provides client-side support for externalized secret management in a distributed system via Hashicorp Vault.

Config Server

Hashicorp Vault was previously added as a backend to Config Server to go along with the VCS based backends. Config…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very busy week and we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• first, the big news: Spring Boot 1.5 has just been released! The new release improves the integration with Cloud Foundry, features Spring Data Ingalls support, LDAP support, a loggers endpoint, and Apache Kafka auto-configuration support. Get started with Spring Boot now!
• Spring Data guru March Paluch put together a nice look at Spring Data Ingalls. The new release is packed with lots of great features including a 20-70% performance improvement, event publication for aggregate roots, improved pagination and so much more! Read the post!
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data Ingalls has gone GA! Hurray! See the release post for more…

As you probably have seen, we have just announced the GA release of Spring Data release train Ingalls. As the release is packed with way too many features to cover them in a release announcement, I would like to use this post to take a deeper look at the changes and features that come with the 15 modules on the train.

Housekeeping

A very fundamental change in the release train’s dependencies is the upgrade to Spring Framework 4.3 (currently 4.3.6) as the baseline. Other dependency upgrades are mostly driven by major version bumps of the underlying store drivers and implementations that need to…

On behalf of the Spring Boot team, and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

What's new in 1.5

Apache Kafka Support

Spring Boot 1.5 includes auto-configuration support for Apache Kafka via the spring-kafka project. To use Kafka simply include the spring-kafka dependency and configure the appropriate spring.kafka.* application…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Nivesh Gopathi, Gap Tech Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/secure-dynamic-app-config-at-gaptech

As organizations move to audit trails over managed processes, continuous delivery with aggressive MTTR, security first doctrines and ephemeral instances, a key enabler is a platform ability for dynamic application configuration and securely bootstrapping application secrets. In this session, we will go over what the use cases for dynamic configuration and application secrets management are with some high level requirements, how we are…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speakers: Michael Minella,Glenn Renfro Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/task-madness-modern-on-demand-processing

The flexibility promised by cloud computing is something that hasn't been fully available in many use cases yet. Most application models are still based on long running containers, robbing users of that very flexibility. Spring Cloud Task, a new project in the Spring portfolio provides both functional and non-functional capabilities for building short lived, cloud-native, microservices. This talk will introduce the project as…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Rajini Sivaram Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/reactive-kafka

Apache Kafka is a distributed, scalable, high-throughput messaging bus. Over the last few years, Kafka has emerged as a key building block for data-intensive distributed applications. As a high performance message bus, Kafka enables the development of distributed applications using the microservices architecture.

Reactive Streams simplifies the development of asynchronous systems using non-blocking back pressure. The reactive framework enables the development of…