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Spring Data Lovelace GA released

September 21, 2018

On behalf of the Spring Data team, it’s my pleasure to announce the general availability of Spring Data Lovelace. This release train ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.1 GA. You can easily consume Spring Data Lovelace with next week’s Spring Boot 2.1 M4 release. Spring Data Lovelace ships with a number of major features, improvements, and bugfixes. The most notable topics are:

Support for immutable objects
Deferred JPA repository initialization
Support for MongoDB 4.0 Client Sessions and Transactions
New Spring Data JDBC module
Apache Cassandra mapping improvements for Map and tuple types, Lifecycle Callbacks, and Kotlin Extensions
Replica Reads with Spring Data Redis

Spring Framework 5.1 goes GA

Releases

Juergen Hoeller

September 21, 2018

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.1 is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now! Check out our recently updated docs…

What’s New in Spring Framework 5.1
Upgrading to Spring Framework 5.1
Our revised reference documentation

Spring Framework 5.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. It comes with initial refinements for GraalVM compatibility and deeply integrates with the recently released Reactor Californium and Hibernate ORM 5.3.

Spring Tool Suite 3.9.6 released

Releases

Martin Lippert

September 20, 2018

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.6 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

updated to Eclipse 2018-09 release
added support for automatic and manual SSH tunneling to remote apps on CF for remote JMX access
various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.6 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

Spring Web Services 3.0.4 / 2.4.3 released!

Engineering

Greg Turnquist

September 19, 2018

Greetings Spring community,

The Spring Web Services team is releasing two version at the same time. 3.0.4.RELEASE as the main branch of development along with 2.4.3.RELEASE for maintenance.

3.0.4.RELEASE comes with a handful of features listed further below. It also comes with new support for Java 11, the next long term supported version of Java.

Java 11 and beyond

Starting in Java 9, several key Java EE packages had their visibility reduced. These included core XML and SOAP-based packages. In Java 11, these packages have been removed altogether. Since Java 11 is the first long term release since Java 8, it’s the version Spring Web Services aligns with for corresponding long term support.

What does this mean for you? To use Spring Web Services on Java 9+, you can no longer depend on the JDK providing key XML and SOAP-based libraries. Never fear, the solution is right here!

If you visit the project’s build file, you’ll discover a new Java 11 profile. This profile contains the extra dependencies you must add to your own build file in order to use Spring Web Services (or any XML/SOAP-based library for that matter).

Spring Web Services does not ship these dependencies so you’ll have to add them to your own build file. But once you do, you won’t have to worry about again (except for when newer versions of those APIs are released).

Still using Spring Web Services 2.x maintenance branch? We’ve got you covered. Without breaking backward compatibility, the 2.4.3.RELEASE also supports Java 11. It just uses a slightly older version of the SOAP API (1.3.8 instead of 1.4.0). Nothing is forced upon you, so you can continue using the same versions of everything else.

Whether or not Java 11 breaks any parts of your application outside of Spring Web Services, of course, is up to you.

For more details, read the following release notes for each version:

Announcing Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.M2

Engineering

Oleg Zhurakousky

September 19, 2018

We are pleased to announce the second Milestone of the Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.M2.

Individual modules of Spring Cloud Function 2.0.0.M2 are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Aside form general enhancements and bug fixes, the primary themes for this release are

Kotlin support
new programming model for Azure Functions (blog to follow)
automatic (optional) export of Supplier on startup in web adapter

How can you help?

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 on stackoverflow.com using the spring-cloud-function tag.

This Week in Spring - September 18th, 2018

Engineering

Josh Long

September 18, 2018

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It’s the week before SpringOne Platform and things are crazy! We have so much to cover - as usual! - but FIRST! ..some poetry (with apologies to Clement Clark Moore)

’twas the week before SpringOne Platform, when all throughout Spring;
Not a creature was stirring, just the computers and things;
the expectations were raised by the community with care;
in hopes that SpringRod would be there;

That’s right! this year is fixing to be AMAZING! We’re going to have Spring founder Rod Johnson, Jenny Zhang, Siew Choo Soh, Neha Narkhede, Matt Raible, Ray Tsang, Lauren Knausenberger, Juergen Hoeller, Bruno Borges, Andrew Clay Shafer and allllll the rest of the Spring team! It feels like a minute ago (December!) that we just had the last one so I can’t believe how quickly this one has arrived, but I can’t wait!

Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.7 M1 released

Releases

Mark Pollack

September 18, 2018

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.7 M1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the highlights

Improved UI
Stream Application DSL
Audit trail
Concurrent Task Launch Limiting
Stream and Task validation
Force upgrade for Streams

Improved UI

The UI has a completely new look. The navigation has moved from tabs to a left side navigation system. This gives increased screen real estate for creating streams with the Flo designer and even more screen real estate can be obtained by minimizing the left side navigation. There is a quick search feature that searches across all the different Data Flow categories. Additional colors and overall theme changes have been added to make the UI look more lively. Deeper in the core, the route management has been improved and we have increased our end to end testing coverage using BrowserStack/SauceLabs.

Introducing Spring Data JDBC

Engineering

Jens Schauder

September 17, 2018

With the upcoming Lovelace GA release, we’re going to ship a new Spring Data Module: Spring Data JDBC.

The idea behind Spring Data JDBC is to provide access to relational databases without submitting to the complexities of JPA. JPA offers such features as lazy loading, caching, and dirty tracking. While these are great if you need them, they can actually make thinking about JPA and its behavior harder than it has to be.

Lazy loading might trigger expensive statements when you don’t expect it or it might fail with an exception. Caching can get in your way when you actually want to compare two versions of an entity and being dirty makes it hard to find a single point where all persistence operations pass through.