The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the 1.5.1 GA release. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

This is a bug fix release. The server improves the handling of special characters in stream definitions and passing of comma delimited strings in the Task launch argument list. It should be used with Skipper 1.0.5.RELEASE. The UI has been improved to support stream update functionality.

As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub or via Gitter.

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.0.M1 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release!

What's new?

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Simplify testing
• Simplify remote chunking
• Add a new JSON item reader

Simplify Testing

Spring Batch provides some nice utility classes (such as the JobLauncherTestUtils and JobRepositoryTestUtils) and test execution listeners (StepScopeTestExecutionListener and JobScopeTestExecutionListener) to test batch components. However, in order to use these utilities, you…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

Finchley.RC2 is based on Spring Boot 2.0.2.

Spring Cloud Task

• Release Announcement

Spring Cloud Config

• Supports skipping SSL validation for Git and Vault repositories
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Bus

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Spring Cloud Netflix Turbine Stream now uses WebFlux
• Bug Fixes
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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the third milestone of the Lovelace release train.

This release ships with updates for all store modules that contain new features, improvements, and bug fixes. Notable changes include:

• Revised documentation.
• Annotation based auditing for the JDBC module. (DATAJDBC-204)
• Synchronous and reactive transaction support in preparation for the MongoDB 4.0 release. (DATAMONGO-1920 & DATAMONGO-1970)
• Reactive Map/Reduce abstractions for MongoDB. (DATAMONGO-1890)
• Enhancements to the Lucene index support in Spring Data Gemfire and for Apache Geode. (SGF-739 & DATAGEODE-101)
• Reactive pub/sub for Spring Data Redis. (DATAREDIS-612)
• Kotlin extensions for Spring Data Cassandra. (DATACASS-484)
• …

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the 1.5.0 GA release. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the highlights:

• UI Improvements

• Spring Boot, Spring Cloud Stream 2.0, and Spring Cloud Task 2.0 Support

• Updated Application Starters

• Metrics Improvements

• Nested splits for Composed Tasks

• Kubernetes Improvements

• Updated File Ingest sample

UI Improvements

We have continued to improve the UI/UX of the Dashboard. We hope that you will immediately notice an overall lighter weight design. The Tasks tab has been…

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Securiity 5.1.0.M1. This release resolves over 80 tickets. The highlights can be seen below:

• Spring Security OAuth2 Client Support for WebFlux. See the sample for how to use it.

• Numerous other enhancements to WebFlux Support

• Added OAuth2ClientArgumentResolver

• Implementation of the Authorization Code Grant. See the sample for how to use it.

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 , Joe @joe_grandja, or Josh @jzheaux…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR10 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:

• Spring Boot 1.5.13
• Spring Data Ingalls SR12
• Spring Framework 4.3.17
• Spring Integration 4.3.16
• Spring Security 4.2.6
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.15

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

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR1 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:

• Spring Boot 2.0.2
• Spring Data Kay SR7
• Spring Framework 5.0.6
• Spring Kafka 2.1.6
• Spring Integration 5.0.5
• Spring Security 5.0.5
• Spring Session Apple SR2

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

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the team and community, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.13 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.13 includes over 20 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Please note that a number of the upgraded dependencies contain fixes for various security vulnerabilities. Please see this blog post for further details.

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…