On behalf of the Spring Data team I am happy to announce the fifth service release of Spring Data Hopper. It contains variety of bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all users of this or any previous release train. The overall list of fixed tickets can be found here.

• Spring Data Commons 1.12.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.10.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.1.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.4.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.8.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.1.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.9.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 2 of the Spring Cloud Camden Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

This release includes primarily bug fixes.

The following modules were updated as part of Camden.SR2:

• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.2.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Consul 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud CLI 1.2.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Streams Brooklyn.SR1

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either on GitHub, on gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of the second milestone of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.1.

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes provides support for orchestrating long-running (streaming) and short-lived (task/batch) data microservices on Kubernetes.

Note: A great way to start using this new release(s) is to follow the release matrix on the project page, which includes the download coordinates and the links to the reference guide.

The most significant changes for this release can be found in the Spring Cloud Deployer for Kubernetes project. Thanks to…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the first milestone releases of Spring Vault and Spring Cloud Vault 1.0.0.M1.

The artifacts are available in the Milestone repo.

What is Spring Vault and Spring Cloud Vault?

Spring Vault is a client for HashiCorp Vault that provides familiar Spring abstractions. It comes with @VaultPropertySource that exposes encrypted properties from Vault the Environment and VaultTemplate to access secrets stored and encrypted inside Vault.

@Configuration
@VaultPropertySource("secret/my-application")
public class AppConfig extends…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.0.RC1.

What’s New in Spring Security 4.2

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring Security 4.2 section of the reference. This release closes out 70+ issues which can be found in the 4.2 M1 and 4.2 RC1 changelogs.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

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 or Joe @joe_grandja…

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce a new milestone release of Spring Cloud Pipelines - 1.0.0.M2. Apart from some bug fixes it’s providing an out of the box support for Gradle projects.

In order for the Gradle project to work out of the box the following opinionated decisions were taken:

• usage of Gradlew Wrapper

• custom deploy task is used for artifacts deployment

• running smoke tests on a deployed app via the custom smoke task

• running end to end tests on a deployed app via the custom e2e task

• custom groupId task to retrieve group id

• custom artifactId task to retrieve artifact id

• custom currentVersion task to retrieve the current version

• custom stubIds task to retrieve list of collaborators for which stubs should be downloaded

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.2.0.RELEASE.

What’s New in Spring LDAP 2.2

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring LDAP 2.2 section of the reference.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

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 or Joe @joe_grandja on Twitter.

Of course the best feedback comes in the form of contributions…

On behalf of the team, I am happy to announce the new service release of the Spring Cloud Camden Release Train. Camden.SR1 can be found in our Spring Release repository or in Maven Central. You can check out the Camden release notes for more information.

Highlights of the Camden SR1 Release Train

The following modules form Camden.SR1:

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce a new project called Spring Cloud Pipelines. Unlike most of Spring projects this one is not available at any repository since it’s not a library, but instead it is available as a github repo for you to download and use as template for creating a deployment pipeline.

Without any further ado let’s get into some details related to the project.

Problem we’re trying to solve

Spring, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud are tools that allow developers speed up the time of creating new business features. It’s common knowledge however that the…