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Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.3 Released

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Thomas Risberg

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.3.

Local Server: Quick Start, Getting Started Guide

This is a maintenance release where we focused on improving the reference documentation. Other improvements include addition of an OSS licensed JDBC driver for Microsoft SQL Server. The latest local deployer version can now handle apps built using Spring Boot 2.0 milestone releases.

More details can be found in the release notes.

Feedback is important. Please reach out to us in StackOverflow and GitHub for questions and feature requests. We also welcome contributions! Any help improving the Spring Cloud Data Flow ecosystem is appreciated.

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Spring Boot 1.5.5 available now

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Andy Wilkinson

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.5 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.5 includes 80 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

What’s next?

After the recent release of Spring Framework 5.0 RC3 and the flurry of other releases that followed, Spring Boot 2.0 M3 is just around the corner. If you want to take an early look at Spring Boot 2, and we’d love to hear your feedback if you do, please go to start.spring.io and select Spring Boot 2.0.0.BUILD-SNAPSHOT.

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Spring Integration 5.0 Milestone 6 Available

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Artem Bilan

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 6 for the Spring Integration 5.0 version (5.0.0.M6) is now available.

It is available for download from the Milestone Repository:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone' }
}
compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.0.0.M6"

19 JIRAs (and some GitHub issues) made into this release, including bug fixes and a number of new features. Some highlights of features in the M6, since the previously announced Milestone 5:

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Spring Data Ingalls SR5 released

Engineering
Christoph Strobl

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of Ingalls SR5 release.
It ships with over 40 issues fixed in total and is therefore a recommended upgrade for all users. For your convenience the service release is going to be picked up by the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.5.

The complete list of issues fixed can be found here.

Spring Data Ingalls SR5

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Spring Data Release Train Kay RC1 & RC2 Released

Engineering
Christoph Strobl

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of the first and second release candiate of Spring Data Kay. This release ships over 120 tickets fixed. The curated changelog can be found in our release wiki, the complete list of issues fixed can be found here. Due to a severe issue in RC1 we immediately issued RC2.

Notable changes

  • Enhanced tooling support by adding @NonNullApi and @Nullable annotations in Spring Data Commons to be picked up by your favorite IDE.
  • Fine-tuning of the fluent API for MongoDB including a reactive counterpart and aggregation support.
  • Spring Data for Apache Geode joins the release train.
  • RedisCache got overhauled and is now way easier to configure.
  • Cassandra 3.0 driver upgrade and support for @Indexed and @SASI.
  • Child document support for Spring Data for Apache Solr.
  • A lot of internal cleanups.
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Spring Session 2.0 M3 Released

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Joe Grandja

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2.0.0.M3. This release is focused primarily on ensuring compatibility with Spring Framework 5.0.0.RC3 and Spring Data Kay RC1 which is the minimum Spring version required.

This release includes the following new features:

  • Support added for Spring WebFlux

  • Support for WebFlux’s WebSession

  • Added ReactorSessionRepository to support a reactive SessionRepository API. The default implementation provided is MapReactorSessionRepository.

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Spring For Apache Kafka 2.0 Milestone 3 Available

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Artem Bilan

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;

  • The KafkaEmbedded can now be supplied with any arbitrary brokerProperties.

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This Week in Spring - July 25th, 2017

Engineering
Josh Long

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. The release is primarily a bugfix. Also of note, this release marks the end of life for Spring Cloud Angel and Spring Cloud Brixton.
  • Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring Framework 5.0 RC3. The new release, part of an extended release candidate phase to allow Reactor 3.1, JUnit 5.0, Jackson 2.9 and so much more, includes API refinements in Spring WebFlux, Kotlin support, refined nullability declarations, and updated JDK9 support.
  • Spring Security contributor Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security 5.0.0.M3. The new release includes support for JSON Web Tokens (JWT), JSON Web Signatures (JWS) and integrated ID Token support for OpenID Connect authentication flows.
  • Spring integration and messaging ninja Artem Bilan just announced Spring AMQP 2.0.0 milestone 5. This release includes security fixes and a number of nice new features.
  • Micrometer provides a simple facade over the instrumentation clients for the most popular monitoring systems, allowing you to instrument your JVM-based application code without vendor lock-in. Think SLF4J, but for metrics. This project will serve as the metrics collection subsystem for Spring Boot 2.0 and will be backported to Spring Boot 1.0. Of note, though, is that Micrometer does not require Spring Boot to work. Check it out. There’s so much cool stuff here, one hardly knows where to start.
  • Gyula Lakatos put together an inspired, and detailed, blog detailing his first, and fresh, look at Spring Cloud Function on AWS Lambda. Nice job Gyula!
  • This is an oldie-but-a-goodie: Antonio Simoes talks about moving his companies’ architecture from a monolith to a non-blocking Spring Cloud-based architecture.
  • Microservices were driven by vendors - This isn’t strictly releated to Spring, but I liked Stephen O’Grady’s discussion about microservices - why people adopt them and what differentiates them from SOA.
  • James Governer follows up on Stephen O’Grady’s post on microservices.
  • and in the absolutely-great-news-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-Spring-per-se column: 10 years ago, 2,600 female students took AP Computer Science exam. In 2017, 29,000 female students took the exam. The growth among female students has been incredible, increasing participation in AP CS exams by 135% since 2016. Not to be outdone, underrepresented minorities have increased participation by nearly 170% over last year! Things are trending in the right direction. I sincerely hope our ecosystem sees increased diversity, more inclusion and participation and that it continues to grow.
  • Spring Boot user Nicky Mølholm‏ chimes in to share that the new Lego Life app is, behind the scenes, powered by Spring Boot. As a fan of both Legos and Spring Boot, I thought this was super cool! Congrats to the Lego Life team!
  • Move fast and don’t break things - by Rod Johnson - Spring creator and Atomist CEO Rod Johnson details how his company’s main offering can be a boon to teams using Spring Boot. This is a really cool offering that simplifies the end-to-end story for creating new services (which could and should be in Spring Boot), supporting collaboration, detecting breaking-and-outage-inducing changes, and managing the path to production (in, for example, Cloud Foundry). I’ve signed up!
  • Oracle Java Magazine, this month, has a nice look at some of the new features in Java 9 which is, of course, just around the corner.
  • This is an oldie-but-a-goodie from Spring ninja Greg Turnquist that looks at some issues people think they have with REST and how to get around them. It’s a good read.
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Spring AMQP 2.0.0 Milestone 5 is Available

Releases
Artem Bilan

I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 5 of Spring AMQP 2.0 is now available in the Spring milestone repository.

Features and fixes since the last milestone:

  • Log4j2 AmqpAppender is now thread-safe;

  • DefaultMessagePropertiesConverter now correctly passes arrays for the header values to the AMQP Client library;

  • Jackson2JsonMessageConverter can now be configured for the trustedPackages to fix violation for Jackson Serialization Gadgets;

  • RabbitAdmin operations can now be performed on the same AMQP channel as a unit of work via RabbitTemplate.invoke();

  • PossibleAuthenticationFailureException can now be treated as a non-fatal via particular option on the AbstractMessageListenerContainer;

  • RepublishMessageRecoverer can now be configured for the deliveryMode for messages to republish.

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Spring Security 5.0.0 M3 Released

Releases
Joe Grandja

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0 M3. This release includes bug fixes, new features, and is based off of Spring Framework 5.0.0 RC3.

The new features included in this milestone are:

Please refer to the change log for further details on this release.

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