Shortly after 1.3.4, we've just released Spring Boot 1.3.5 as we've identified a rather nasty regression with the Spring Integration auto-configuration. The bits are available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central, as usual.

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Auntie Em! Time sure is flying! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Warsaw for a Cloud Native meetup and Krakow, Poland for the spectacular Geecon event! If you're around, don't hesitate to say hi for Also, some very big news coming! Stay tuned to the Spring.io blog tomorrow! Anyway, as usual, we've got a lot to look at so let's get to it!

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 4.1.0 RELEASE! This is a big release with a lot of cool stuff!
• Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring IO Platform 2.0.4 release
• Spring AMQP and messaging guru Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP 1.6.0 RC (and 1.5.6)
• Spring framework ninja Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Framework 4.3 RC2, 4.2.6 and 3.2.17 are now available
• not one to sit on his laurels, Stéphane also announced Spring Boot 1.3.5
• This blog has a really nice look at some of the players in the microservice ecosystem…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.0.RELEASE. The artifacts can be found in Spring Repository as well as Maven Central.

The goal of Spring Cloud Stream is to be a lightweight framework for developing event-driven microservices, building on the ease of development and deployment of Spring Boot, and the component model and integration capabilities of Spring Integration. As part of the Spring Cloud family of projects, it has a specific focus on cloud-native architectures.

In order to simplify the development of both streaming and…

Spring IO Platform 2.0.4.RELEASE 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 to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Reactor 2.0.8.RELEASE
• Spring AMQP 1.5.5.RELEASE
• Spring Batch 3.0.7.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.3.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.2.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.2.6.RELEASE
• Spring Security 4.0.4.RELEASE

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

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We are pleased to announce that the Spring AMQP 1.6 release candidate (1.6.0.RC1) is now available in the spring milestone repo.

The 1.5.6 maintenance release is also available with a few bug fixes.

Here is a summary of the 1.6.0 release contents, for more details, refer to the what's new in the reference documentation as well as the closed JIRA Issues for this release.

• A new jar spring-rabbit-test containing a test harness to help with testing @RabbitListener methods; see the testing chapter.

• Multiple @RabbitListener annotations on a method (when using Java 8) and the @RabbitListeners annotation (for pre-Java 8), each allowing the same method to be the listener method for multiple listener containers.

• Full support for the Delayed Message Exchange RabbitMQ plugin.

• An AsyncRabbitTemplate returning ListenableFuture<?> for request/reply messaging.

• An option to publish ApplicationEvents when listener containers go idle.

• The caching connection factory now exposes cache statistics

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It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Framework 4.2.6 and 3.2.17 maintenance releases are available now. We also released the second release candidate of the 4.3 line.

4.3 RC2 contains many refinements and fixes, especially in the web framework area. We are about to finalize 4.3 with a scheduled GA in early June. Preparations towards merging 5.0 features into master will happen right afterwards, with a first 5.0 milestone expected in July.

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Spring Boot 1.3.4 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and 3rd party dependency updates.

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On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.0.RELEASE. This release evolved through 4.1.0 RC1, 4.1.0 RC2, and 4.1.0 closing nearly 200 tickets.

What’s New in Spring Security 4.1

You can find highlights of what's new in the What’s New in Spring Security 4.1 section of the reference. For details refer to the changelog links above.

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 @rob_winch or Joe (our latest full time Spring Security team member) @joe_grandja…

I can't even believe it's May already! STOP THE WORLD I WANT OFF! Well, at least the times are exciting! There's so much cool stuff to look at this week so let's get to it!

• New sessions are up on the shiny new SpringOne Platform website check it out! In addition to an Adrian Cockcroft keynote, we're got speakers booked from Netflix, Google, Comcast, Express Scripts, Kroger, along with Spring leaders like Juergen Hoeller, Dr. Dave Syer, Rossen Stoyanchev, Oliver Gierke, and of course, yours truly!
• and join Spring Cloud Data Flow leads Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack for a look at Data Driven Microservices with Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Spring Session and Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Session 1.2.0.RC3.
• Spring REST Docs lead …