It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.4 is available now.

This maintenance release includes over 50 fixes and selected improvements, in particular user-requested configuration and runtime refinements.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in London, England for µCon, Antwerp, Belgium for Devoxx, and Malmö, Sweden for Oredev. If you're around, ping me and say hi.

• Spring Framework and Spring Boot ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced that Spring Framework 4.3.4, mostly bugfixes, is available now.
• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security OAuth 2.0.12 which is primarily bugfixes and paves the way for some nice new features.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow and Spring Cloud Task ninja Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.RC1. Spring Cloud Task continues the journey to 1.1 which adds a lot of new features including error handling, improved options for customizing the launch of partitioned job workers.
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data release train Hopper SR5. This release includes a lot…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that the third Spring Framework 5.0 milestone is available now: Once again, please check the project page for how to obtain it from our milestone repository.

This milestone introduces our redesigned reactive web client as well as redesigned RxJava adapters (including support for the recent RxJava 1.2 and 2.0) and model attribute support for our reactive web dispatcher.

Next up is 5.0 M4 in December, right ahead of Christmas, completing our core reactive stack and our functional design story... before we move towards a first Spring Framework…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.2 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.4.2 includes over 100 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates! Thanks to all that have contributed!

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask at stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag.

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Event sourced domain naturally leads to messaging infrastructure and CQRS based services. See how we can benefit from getting rid of typical relational database model replaced by events. See how events come along with projections and different read model. In this talk we are going to explore all of this backed by a real Spring Cloud Stream applications.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security OAuth 2.0.12.RELEASE. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

This release primarily includes bug fixes and minor enhancements.

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 Joe @joe_grandja, Dave @david_syer or Rob @rob_winch…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.RC1 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0 offers the following features:

This release continues to progress on 1.1.0's main theme of improving overall task functionality as well as migrating features that existed within Spring XD to Spring Cloud Task. The feature set for 1.1.0 includes:

• Updated error message handling - 1.1.0 adds a new column to the TASK_EXECUTION table, ERROR_MESSAGE. This new column will be where any exception that is thrown causing the failure of a task to be recorded (this is changed from the EXIT_MESSAGE field in previous versions). This change allows for the EXIT_MESSAGE field to be better utilized for orchestration of tasks.
• Improved options for customizing the launch of partitioned job workers - When using the DeployerPartitionHandler…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I am happy to announce the fifth service release of Spring Data Hopper. It contains variety of bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all users of this or any previous release train. The overall list of fixed tickets can be found here.

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• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.4.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
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Getting started with Spring Cloud can be daunting. If you have seen the great Josh Long give his Cloud Native Java presentation, you will notice that you need to create several supporting applications before you can see your application at work.

Spring Cloud CLI Launcher

As part of the transition from Spring XD to Spring Cloud Dataflow, one of the extracted projects is called the Spring Cloud Deployer. The Deployer allows for launching applications on various platforms, including launching on a developer machine.

We wanted to simplify users' ability to experiment with Spring Cloud, so the spring cloud command…