It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring for Apache Kafka 1.0.3 maintenance release is available now.

As usual, thanks to the community for any feedback and contribution as always!

This release contains several important bug fixes, including a memory leak when using manual acknowledgments; therefore an upgrade is highly recommended.

The addressed issues can be found here.

The project now properly handles kafka messages with null payloads, which is a common use case used to "delete" a key when using Kafka Log Compaction. @KafkaListener methods will now receive a null argument for such…

I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.2.RELEASE which resolves some minor issues including fixes for the new MvcRequestMatcher.

For details refer to the changelog.

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…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.1 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

STS 3.8.1 focuses on fixing existing issues. The list of fixed issues include:

• Spring Boot Dashboard works behind a proxy again
• Assert templates now use JUnit or AssertJ, depending on what is on the classpath of the project
• Fixed an issue with the Groovy-Eclipse m2e connector with missing source folders
• Added an action to jump to the ngrok admin web UI directly from the boot dashboard
• Fixed an issue with the port of a boot app not showing up in the dashboard
• and more...

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.8.1 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apache YARN 1.0.1.RELEASE.

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

Apart from usual minor fixes, we have worked on the following themes.

• Support for kerberos and integration to automated ambari kerberos setup.
• Support for HDFS HA Namenode setup.
• New extension to dataflow-shell adding hadoop fs basic commands.

For a complete list of changes and improvements, please refer to 1.0.1.RELEASE server release, 1.0.1.RELEASE deployer release, 1.0-2.RELEASE rpm release and 1.0-2.RELEASE ambari plugin release…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 2.0.7.RELEASE 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:

• Spring Boot 1.3.7.RELEASE
• Spring Integration 4.2.9.RELEASE
• Spring Web Flow 2.4.4.RELEASE

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

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.0.2.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. This release provides some minor enhancements including persisting of the completion of a task when terminated by an external signal. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

Spring Cloud Task Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

We look forward to your feedback in Github, StackOverflow, to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella or at SpringOnePlatform next week!

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that the first Spring Framework 5.0 milestone is available now: Check http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/ for how to obtain it from our milestone repository, and give it a spin while it's hot!

Find out about the 5.0 M1 changes on our What's New wiki page or in more detail on JIRA. Follow our master branch on GitHub for the latest updates.

Most importantly, our Spring Reactive initiative has been merged into Spring Framework proper, with core reactive functionality and reactive web endpoint support available out of the box now. Stay tuned for Rossen's blog post on our reactive…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.3.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and 3rd party dependency updates. Stay tuned for more release announcement with Spring Boot 1.4.0.RELEASE coming up next!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

One behalf of the Spring Boot team, and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements and builds on the latest release of the Spring Framework. For full upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

Here are some of the highlights of v1.4:

Startup failure message

Spring Boot will now perform analysis of common startup failures and provide useful diagnostic…