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.

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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…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.2.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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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that, after more than a year of milestones and RCs and almost two years of development overall, Spring Framework 5.0 is finally generally available as 5.0.0.RELEASE from repo.spring.io and Maven Central!

This brand-new generation of the framework is ready for 2018 and beyond: with support for JDK 9 and the Java EE 8 API level (e.g. Servlet 4.0), as well as comprehensive integration with Reactor 3.1, JUnit 5, and the Kotlin language. On top of that all, Spring Framework 5 comes with many functional API variants and introduces a dedicated…