On behalf of the team, I am happy to announce the general availability of the Spring Cloud Contract in version 1.0.0.RELEASE. You can download it from Spring Release or Maven Central. The reference documentation is available here. The release notes are available here.

What is Spring Cloud Contract for? What you always need is confidence in pushing new features into a new application or service in a distributed system. Spring Cloud Contract project provides support for Consumer Driven Contracts and service schemas in Spring applications, covering a range of options for writing tests, publishing…

On behalf of the team, I am happy to announce the general availability of the Spring Cloud Stream Brooklyn release train. Spring Cloud Stream Brooklyn.RELEASE is available for use in the Spring Release repository and in Maven Central. A detailed description of the features and new capabilities as discussed below can be found in the reference documentation. The release notes are available here and include important information on the migration path.

At a high level, Brooklyn.RELEASE introduces the following new features:

• Support for Apache Kafka 0.9 and 0.10 (Apache Kafka 0.8.x users must use Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.x);
• Schema Registry support;
• Reactive API support;
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.0.M1.

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 50+ issues which can be found in 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…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 2.0.8.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 1.3.8.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.2.8.RELEASE
• Spring Data Gosling SR5
• Spring Security JWT 1.0.5.RELEASE
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.11.RELEASE

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

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I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release adopts a new alphabetical versioning scheme similar to those already used by Spring Cloud and Spring Data. The theme for the Platform’s versions is world cities.

The Athens release upgrades the versions of several projects:

• Spring AMQP 1.6
• Spring Boot 1.4
• Spring Data Hopper
• Spring Framework 4.3
• Spring Integration 4.3
• Spring LDAP 2.1
• Spring REST Docs 1.1
• Spring Security 4.1
• Spring Session 1.2
• Spring Web Services 2.3

A number of other Spring projects and…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apache YARN 1.0.2.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.

• Builds upon Spring Cloud Data Flow’s 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Support for Apache Ambari 2.4
• Adds Apache Ambari installation of Spring Cloud Data Flow for HDP 2.5 stack
• UX improvements around Apache Ambari configuration settings and quicklinks
• Adds support to interact with kerberized Apache Kafka cluster
• Yarn deployer APIs and the auto-configuration improvements
• Certification of partitioned batch-jobs running as short-lived Tasks in YARN
• Improved documentation
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It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.1 and 1.3.8 haven been released and are available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.3.8 includes 35 fixes and a selection of improvements and dependency upgrades. The first maintenance release of the 1.4 line contains over 150 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates! Thanks to all that have contributed!

What's new?

We snuck in a few major improvements such as a new FailureAnalyzer for NoSuchBeanDefinitionException. If your code expects a bean to be present (typically via auto-configuration), you should now…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that the second 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 keep your feedback coming!

This release introduces a functional web endpoint variant, based on the same foundation as our reactive @Controller model (introduced in 5.0 M1). Stay tuned for Arjen's dedicated blog post, coming up tomorrow! Here's a teaser...

RouterFunction<String> route =
    route(GET("/hello-world"),
        request -> Response.ok().body(fromObject("Hello…

I am pleased to announce that the Spring for Apache Kafka 1.1.0.RELEASE is now available in the spring release repo and Maven Central.

Due to some community requirements, we decided to bypass the Release Candidate (RC) phase and released General Availability (GA) immediately.

There are not many changes since the previous Milestone 2, but here is a summary of all Spring Kafka 1.1 changes:

• Apache Kafka 0.10 upgrade;

• The batch of messages support via BatchMessageListener as well as via @KafkaListener annotation configuration;

• The null payload concept support via KafkaNull placeholder object;

• You can now perform seek operations from the listener - this allows setting an initial offset when partitions are assigned by Kafka when using group management. You can also perform arbitrary seek operations after initialization;

• Allow setting the initial offset to be relative to the current offset;

• The KafkaTemplate now provides access to the metrics and partitionsFor methods on the Producer.

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