On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.8 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.8 includes over 40 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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.

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Spring Boot 2.0.0 M5 has been released and is now available from our milestone repository. This release closes 168 issues and pull requests and continues our progress towards 2.0 GA. Thanks to everyone that has contributed!

This milestone refines a number of items from M4, and provides a number of notable new features:

• Initial support for Java 9 - We'll continue to refine Java 9 support, but this release should work for basic applications. Check out this wiki page for more details.
• OAuth 2.0 Client support from Spring Security - Spring Security is starting to ship more OAuth 2.0 features. This release of Spring Boot provides auto-configuration for Spring Security's OAauth 2.0 client support.
• JSON-B Support - We now offer support for JSON-B alongside our existing Jackson and Gson integrations. We continue to recommend Jackson as our default choice.
• Session Actuator endpoint…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the eighth service release of the release train Ingalls. The release ships on top of the just released Spring Framework 4.3.12 and in preparation of the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.8 released.

The release ships 42 (yay!) tickets fixed and is a recommended upgrade to all users of the Ingalls release train.

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.12 is available now.

This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.8 maintenance release and includes 17 fixes and selected improvements.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0 M5. This release includes bug fixes & new features. The primary focus is being based off of Spring Framework 5.0.0.RELEASE, Reactor Bismuth-RELEASE, and Spring Data Kay-RELEASE.

This release also lays the foundation for Reactive and OAuth2 auto configuration in Spring Boot 2.0.0.M5

You can find complete details in the changelog.

Get Involved!

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 @joe_grandja…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Vault 1.1.0 and the third milestone of Spring Vault 2.0, available from Maven Cental respective the milestone repository.

Highlights of Spring Vault 1.1 GA release are:

• Pull-mode support for AppRole authentication.

• Vault login using via AWS IAM.

• Support of batch transit operations.

• Rotation of generic secrets based on their lease duration.

• Introduction of VaultEndpointProvider to configure endpoints dynamically.

Looking at Spring Vault 2.0 M3 you will find the following enhancements:

• Vault repositories via @EnableVaultRepositories built on top of Spring Data KeyValue.

• Support to create and modify Vault’s policies represented as JSON.

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I am pleased to announce that the 2.0.0.RELEASE of Spring AMQP is now available in the Spring release repository and Maven Central.

First of all thanks to all community members for any feedback and contributions to make this new instalment of Spring for AMQP and RabbitMQ support project!

Some highlights what we have after a year and a couple months of amazing team work:

• Full Java 8 and Spring Framework 5.0 support;

• New spring-rabbit-junit artifact with some useful testing utilities including BrokerRunning JUnit @Rule;

• The amqp-client library of version 5.0;

• A DirectMessageListenerContainer to allow to consume messages directly on the client thread instead of queue-based logic in the SimpleMessageListenerContainer;

• A ConnectionNameStrategy option for the ConnectionFactory to name target Broker connections for possible diagnostics;

• new RabbitOperations.invoke() for batch of template operation on the dedicated, thread-bound channel;

• Encoder support for the Logback AmqpAppender;

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 4 (SR4) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in the Maven Central repository. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

The following modules were updated as part of Dalston.SR4:

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, on Gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter…

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the 2.0.0.RELEASE of the Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 version.

As mentioned in the 2.0 RC1 announcement, the 1.3 GA is also available supporting the Kafka 0.11.x.x client with Spring Framework 4.3.x applications.

They are available for download from the Release Repository and Maven Central:

repositories {
    maven { url 'http://repo.spring.io/release' }
}
compile "org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:2.0.0.RELEASE"

That was 6 months journey to bring a Java 8 and Spring Framework 5 vision for Spring for Apache Kafka project and here is…