I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR8 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. With the IO Platform reaching end of life on 9 April 2019, this is expected to be the final IO Platform release.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 2.0.12
• Spring Batch 4.0.3
• Spring Cloud Connectors 2.0.5
• Spring Data Kay-SR14
• Spring Framework 5.0.13
• Spring HATEOAS 0.25.1
• Spring Integration 5.0.13
• Spring Retry 1.2.4
• Spring Security JWT 1.0.10
• Spring Security OAuth 2.2.4
• Spring Security 5.0.12
• Spring Session Apple-SR9
• Spring Web Services 3.0.7
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On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.5 (changelog), 5.0.12 (changelog), and 4.2.12 (changelog). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.20 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.20 is a maintenance release that includes over 30 dependency updates and selected bug fixes. These upgrades include Spring Security OAuth 2.0.17 which addresses a recently announced CVE.

If you haven’t already upgraded to Spring Boot 2, please consider doing so as support for 1.x will end on August 1st 2019.

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-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.9 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This is a maintenance release that includes almost 40 dependency updates and selected bug fixes.

This is the last release in 2.0 line. Please consider upgrading to Spring Boot 2.1 if you haven't already done so.

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-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.6., 5.0.13 and 4.3.23 are available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now.

Spring Framework 5.1.6 includes 49 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.0.13 is the last regular release of the 5.0.x line and includes 25 fixes and selected improvements. At this point, we expect all 5.x users to upgrade to 5.1.6. We've also released 4.3.23 that includes 20 fixes and selected improvements.

As usual, those maintenance releases will be used for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.20, 2.0.9, 2.1.4 releases coming up later…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.2.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) new: Allow configuration of VM arguments for LSP process "PropertiesLauncher" (#211)
• (Spring Boot) performance: major performance improvements to symbol indexing infrastructure by caching created symbols across language server starts
• (Spring Boot) performance: replaced internal type indexing with communication to JDT (language server) to save time and memory spend for keeping our own type index
• (Eclipse) new: distribution updated to Eclipse 2019-03
• (Eclipse) new: enables Spring JMX support now by default in Spring Boot launch configs
• various additional bug fixes and improvements
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Dear Spring Community,

Hey!

I am happy to announce the 3.9.8 maintenance release of the Spring Tool Suite 3 (STS3).

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse 2019-03 release
• quick text search allows you to switch between modal and non-modal mode
• quick test search allows you to limit search scope to specific files
• new tab for running boot apps that show live data from the apps environment
• various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite 3: https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all
• Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.8 New & Noteworthy.
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On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire communities, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.0.0.M4.

Special appreciation goes out to @starbuxman for his invaluable feedback after SpringOne Platform 2018. And, if you have not seen Josh’s Spring Tip video on Apache, please check it out.

What’s New

Among a few minor updates, Milestone 4 adds the following new capabilities:

• Externalized configuration support with Spring Boot’s Configuration Processor and SBDG provided @ConfigurationProperties classes (Read here for more details). Inside STS or IJ Enterprise addition, developers will have the added convenience of auto-completion and content assist.

• GemFire/Geode nodes can now be named with the spring.application.name property.

• The GemFire/Geode Spring Boot starters now include Spring Shell as a runtime dependency, which is convenient when enabling and using GemFire/Geode’s management services.

• Provided a workaround to an issue in Spring Cloud Commons .

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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.0.1 GA of Data Flow. Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

This is a minor release with mostly bug fixes and documentation enhancements.

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Kubernetes deployment configuration for Skipper server is now backed by MySQL as the default database.

• Remove extraneous Spring Data Redis dependency to fix Spring Cloud Data Flow server health check.

• Improved Getting Started documentation.

• Bug fixes on Spring Cloud Data Flow and Spring Cloud Data Flow UI.

• All the out-of-the-box stream apps from the Documentation examples now use Einstein SR2.

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