On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.0 M1. This release includes bug fixes, new features, and is based off of Spring Framework 5.0.0 RC1. The highlights of the release include:

• Initial Support for Reactive Web Applications
• New Support for OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect 1.0

Initial Support for Reactive Web Applications

Following one of the primary themes of Spring Framework 5.0, Spring Security 5.0 will add support for Reactive applications by building on top of Spring's reactive support. The first milestone focused on getting primary…

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2.0.0.M1. This release is focused primarily on ensuring compatability with Spring Framework 5 which is the minimum Spring version required.

Supported Data Stores

We have also removed some of the Spring Session implementations from the main repository. The goal is to allow the core Spring Session team to focus on delivering new features rather than needing to know the ins and outs of every data store. This will allow development of other modules to be done without the overhead of reviews from the Spring Session…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of the third milestone of the release train Kay.

The most significant change is an improved naming scheme for CrudRepository. We extracted the store-specific CustomConversions to Spring Data Commons and introduced bi-directional type-based converters to maintain a single API for common conversion code. You can now define converters using lambdas. You need to adopt your code to the renamed methods. MongoDB ships with a renamed annotation for reactive tailable cursors, we renamed @InfiniteStream to @Tailable. Users of…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 7 of the Spring Cloud Camden Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central. The documentation can be found here. The release notes can be found here.

The following modules were updated as part of Camden.SR7:

• Spring Cloud Commons 1.1.9.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.2.7.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud AWS 1.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Consul 1.1.4.RELEASE Dependency Fixes
• Spring Cloud Security 1.1.4.RELEASE Documentation Fixes
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Stream Brooklyn.SR3 fixes issues with Spring Cloud Bus, Hystrix, and Turbine. See this issue for more information.
• Spring Cloud Contract 1.0.5.RELEASE
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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that a feature-complete Spring Framework 5.0 release candidate is available now! We are expecting a further release candidate at the end of May and a final release in late June at this point.

As a major revision of the core framework, 5.0 RC1 comes with a Java 8+ baseline and many infrastructure refinements: e.g. our own Commons Logging bridge autodetecting Log4j 2, SLF4J, JUL by default; streamlined use of Servlet 3.1+; and early support for JUnit 5.0 M4.

Once again, here are the major Spring Framework 5 feature themes:

• Reactive programming: introducing our Spring WebFlux framework built on Reactor 3.1, with support for RxJava 1.3 & 2.1 and running on Tomcat, Jetty, Netty or Undertow.
• Functional style with Java 8 & Kotlin: several API refinements and Kotlin extensions across the framework, in particular for bean registration and functional web endpoints.
• Integration with Java EE 8 APIs: support for Servlet 4.0, Bean Validation 2.0, JPA 2.2, as well as the JSON Binding API (as an alternative to Jackson/Gson in Spring MVC).
• Ready for JDK 9:…

I am pleased to announce that the fourth milestone of Spring AMQP 2.0 2.0.0.M4 is now available in the Spring milestone repository.

Features since the last milestone include…​

• The new DirectMessageListenerContainer now supports configuring the number of messages to process between acks.

• You can now specify container concurrency on the @RabbitListener annotation.

The release candidate is expected to be released in early June with the GA shortly after the Spring Framework 5.0 GA release.

For a complete list of changes in 2.0, see What’s New in the reference manual; also see the release notes for 2.0.0.M1, 2.0.0.M2, 2.0.0.M3, as well as 2.0.0.M4…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-SR5 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 1.8.10
• Spring AMQP 1.6.9
• Spring Boot 1.4.6
• Spring Data Hopper SR 10
• Spring Framework 4.3.8
• Spring Integration 4.3.9

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 Brussels-SR2 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 1.8.10
• Spring AMQP 1.7.2
• Spring Boot 1.5.3
• Spring Data Ingalls SR 3
• Spring Framework 4.3.8
• Spring Integration 4.3.9
• Spring Kafka 1.1.4

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

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

We are very pleased to announce the availability of the first milestone of the Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 release 2.0.0.M1.

Significant new features in the 2.0 line include:

• Support for timestamps in the KafkaTemplate.

• Seek to beginning/end of topics.

• New threading model facilitated by KIP-62 - now that the consumer client does not rely on poll() being called frequently, the threading model is much simpler; avoiding the need for internal pause() / resume() processing. Listeners are now always invoked on the consumer thread. This, in turn, has facilitated:

• ConsumerAwareMessageListener (and BatchConsumerAwareMessageListener) are provided so that listener implementations can access the Consumer<?, ?> object to perform operations such as pause(), resume(), metrics() etc.

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