On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.0.RC2, available here. As part of the release candidate cycle, it comes with a number of bug fixes and a small number adjustments. The complete list of changes is available here.

Some highlights:

• Spring Cloud Stream applications now use the ObjectMapper provided by Spring Boot, if available;
• Header embedding is now a general purpose producer/consumer property. It can be enabled or disabled by middlewares that require embedding for header propagation. This allows easier interoperability outside Spring Cloud Stream; (until now it was a Kafka-specific property);
• Further documentation and sample improvements.
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On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.2.0.RC2. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone Repository (https://repo.spring.io/milestone/).

This release contains some fixes for the previous release.

Some highlights of the issues in this release include:

• A number of fixes for the JDBC support have been included
• A new Grails 3 Sample

See What's New in 1.2 for more details.

Our Community Support

As always, I'd like to thank our awesome community for their contributions. A very big thanks to those who submitted Pull Requests:

• #436 - Use Flapdoodle Embedded MongoDB for integration tests Thanks Vedran Pavić
• #437 - Externalize H2 database dependency version Thanks Vedran Pavić
• #440 - Fix SessionRepositoryFilter comment typo Thanks Jin Zhang
• #442 - Add Grails 3 Sample Thanks Eric Helgeson
• #444 - Add Dispatcher types to web.xml Thanks moonlight
• #450 - Fix loading of JdbcSession's lastAccessedTime attribute Thanks Vedran Pavić
• #451 - Polish JdbcHttpSessionConfigurationTests Thanks Vedran Pavić
• #454 - Add JDBC Spring Boot sample Thanks Vedran Pavić
• #462 - Update WebSocket sample to use H2 console auto-configuration Thanks …

On behalf of the entire Spring Data team I am happy to announce the general availability of the Spring Data release train Hopper. The train includes 395 tickets fixed and its most important additions are:

• Upgrade of the Spring Framework baseline to 4.2 (4.2.5 in particular).
• Support for Query by Example in Spring Data JPA and MongoDB.
• Improved support for composed annotations.
• Support for lookup types and nested associations in Spring Data REST
• Major upgrades of the Solr (2.0 on Solr 5.5), Neo4j (4.1), Couchbase (2.1 on Couchbase 2.0), Elasticsearch (2.0 on ES 2.2)
• Upgrade to Querydsl 4.
• Support for object mapping and repositories for Spring Data Redis.
• Support for Redis Cluster.
• Support for projections on repository query methods in JPA and MongoDB.
• …

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that a feature-complete Spring Framework 4.3 release candidate is available now! This is a perfect opportunity for you to get involved: Please run your regression tests against it, and of course, feel free to try the new features...

Dependency injection refinements:

MVC processing refinements:

Various infrastructural refinements across the framework:

We are working towards an RC2 with some remaining fine-tuning and performance improvements in the meantime, preparing for 4.3's general availability on June 1st!

Cheers, Juergen

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring LDAP 2.1.0.RC1 has been released! Get the bits and try it out.
• Oracle's amazing Geertjan Wielenga put together an awesome, 100% live demo looking at how to use Spring Boot with NetBeans
• I love Spring Cloud Data Flow! Whether you want a way to describe and compose complex processing streams from simple actor-like components, want to orchestrate stream processing solutions, manage tasks like data at-scale data ingest or otherwise, Spring Cloud Data Flow is probably what you're looking for. Check out this quick look at…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Speaker: Stephane Maldini, Rossen Stoyanchev Web / Javascript track Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/reactive-web-applications-53170985 In our previous talk "Intro to Reactive Programming" we defined reactive programming and provided details around key initiatives such as Reactive Streams and ReactiveX. In this talk we'll focus on where we are today with building reactive web applications. We'll take a look at the choice of runtimes, how Reactive Streams may be applied to network I/O, and what the programming model may look like. While this is…

Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2015. Speakers: Michael Wilmes, Lufthansa and Laurent Doguin, Couchbase Data / Integration Track http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/inflight-asset-management-with-spring-data-and-neo4j We invite you to join these two speakers from the Spring Data community, each speaking about their respective projects for 45 minutes. Michael Wilmes from Lufthansa Systems will speak about Graph-based Asset Management with the Spring Framework. He is part of a flagship project that brings next-generation Inflight-Entertainment systems onto passenger aircrafts, and tackles the…

I just wanted to register here an experience that made me smile yesterday: making the rapidly improving Spring Cloud Data Flow wiggle from (Spring Boot) start(-ers) to service in a matter of minutes!

The only pre-requisite is that you have a Redis instance runnning. My Redis instance is running on 127.0.0.1 and it required no further configuration for Spring Boot to find and work with it.

We'll use the epic Spring Initializr to make short work of generating our applications. Remember those silly Apple commercials, "There's an App For That?" Nevermind that, there's a checkbox for that! Let's…

I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.1.0.RC1. 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

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. A special thanks to the…