I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring for Apache Kafka 2.1.0.RELEASE.

In addition, maintenance releases 1.3.2.RELEASE and 2.0.2.RELEASE are available, containing important bug fixes. See also below for information about spring-integration-kafka 3.0.0.RELEASE. It is recommended that all users upgrade.

The main purpose of the 2.1 release is to upgrade the kafka-clients library to 1.0.0, but we have included a few improvements:

• Sometimes, when a message can’t be processed, you may wish to stop the container so the condition can be corrected and the message re-delivered. The framework now provides the ContainerStoppingErrorHandler for record listeners and ContainerStoppingBatchErrorHandler for batch listeners.

• The KafkaAdmin now supports increasing partitions when a NewTopic bean is detected with a larger number of partitions than currently exist on the topic.

• StringJsonMessageConverter and JsonSerializer/JsonDeserializer now pass and consume type information in Headers. This allows multiple types to be easily sent/received on the same topic:

  @SpringBootApplication public class Kafka21Application {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
      SpringApplication.run(Kafka21Application.class, args)
          .close();
  }
  
  @Bean
  public ApplicationRunner runner(KafkaTemplate<Object, Object> template) {
      return args -> {
          template.send(MessageBuilder.withPayload(42)
                  .setHeader(KafkaHeaders.TOPIC, "blog")
                  .build());
          template.send(MessageBuilder.withPayload("4…

On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.0.M7 has been released and is now available from our milestone repository. This release closes 165 issues and pull requests and continues our progress towards 2.0 GA. Thanks to everyone that has contributed!

This release refines a number of items from previous milestones, and provides a number of notable new features:

• Condition evaluation report deltas on Devtools triggered restart
• A new scheduled tasks actuator endpoint
• Support for Duration types in configuration properties (e.g. 5ms, 1s, 10m)
• Reactive Couchbase support
…

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the GA release for the Spring Integration 5.0 version (5.0.0.RELEASE) is now available.

It can be downloaded from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.0.0.RELEASE"

First of all, special thanks to all community members for their ongoing active contributions to the framework!

Several JIRAs (and some GitHub issues), since the previously announced RC1, are included in this release, mostly bug fixes from early adopters and Reference Manual…

We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.M3 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow and its associated ecosystem of projects.

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Release Highlights

Stream updates and rollback

A streaming data pipeline orchestrated as a series of microservice applications has always been the core value of Spring Cloud Data Flow’s design. In 1.3.0.M3 we have provided the ability to update sources, processors, and sinks independently without having to undeploy and redeploy the entire stream.

The stream update feature is implemented by delegating the deployment process to a new Spring Cloud project called Skipper. Introduced in this blog, Spring Cloud Skipper is a standalone server that deploys Spring Boot applications to multiple cloud platforms. It also keeps track of the application version, application properties, and deployment properties of the deployed application or applications so that the changes to any of these…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR6 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:

• AspectJ 1.8.13
• Spring Boot 1.5.9
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.5
• Spring Data Ingalls-SR9
• Spring Framework 4.3.13
• Spring Kafka 1.1.7
• Spring LDAP 2.3.2
• Spring Web Services 2.4.2

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

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0.RELEASE. This release resolves 400+ tickets. For highlights and details about the release, refer to the What’s New in Spring Security 5.0 section.

We hope to see you at SpringOne Platform next week. It will be packed with many Spring talks, opportunities to learn about the latest and greatest features and of course some previews about what we’re planning to do next.

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Hot on the heels of the latest Spring Framework 4.3 mainteance release, Spring Boot 1.5.9 is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.9 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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It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.3.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a handful of bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs users.

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On behalf of everyone who contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.0.RELEASE has been released and is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository

What's new?

Spring REST Docs 2.0 is the latest generation of the project and requires Spring Framework 5.0 and Java 8.

The main highlight of the 2.0 release is support for using Spring WebFlux's WebTestClient to document an API. WebTestClient can be used for lightweight testing and documentation of APIs implemented using WebFlux Fn and WebFlux's annotation-based programming model. It can also be used…