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;

  …

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.

Be sure to be on the…

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Crete, Greece, for the epic JCrete un-conference and then it's off to Istanbul, Turkey for next week's visits with customers and for the Spring meetup. I hope you'll join me in Istanbul!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced the Spring Integration Extension for Hazlecast 1.0.0.GA. This new release features mainly bug fixes and improvements. It also adds support distributed, clustered applications with implementations of HazelcastMessageStore, HazelcastLockRegistry, and HazelcastMetadataStore.
• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security OAuth 2.2.0.RC1. This new release includes improvements to the way JWT tokens and claim sets are handled. Do not miss the update!
• Want to profile Java applications on Cloud Foundry…

On behalf of the Spring Integration community I’d like to announce the GA release of Spring Integration Extension for Hazelcast. Its artifact is spring-integration-hazelcast.1.0.0.RELEASE and is available in the Release Repository and Maven Central.

Since the previous Milestone 1 and Milestone 2 we have done some bug fixes and internal improvements. The new features added since there are for Spring Integration utilities support which are useful in distributed, clustered applications:

• HazelcastMessageStore

• HazelcastLockRegistry

• HazelcastMetadataStore

See their JavaDocs and respective chapters in the Spring Integration Reference Manual…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security OAuth 2.2.0.RC1.

The 2.2.0.RC1 release includes numerous improvements to the JSON Web Key (JWK) feature contained in JwkTokenStore along with the addition of JwtClaimsSetVerifier that provides the capability of custom JWT Claim(s) verification. See the GitHub Issue for more details.

This release also includes a small number of bug fixes and minor enhancements.

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