On behalf of the Spring Data team I’d like to announce the availability of the second service release of the Spring Data Hopper release train. The release ships 103 issues fixed. We fixed a couple of bugs in the area of repository projections, especially for JPA users and introduce Hibernate 5.2 compatibility with this release (also already back-ported to the Gosling release train for inclusion in the upcoming service release). Hopper SR2 is a recommended upgrade for all Hopper users and also users of previous release trains.

Here are the released modules:

• Spring Data Cassandra 1.4.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Commons 1.12.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 2.1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 2.0.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Envers 1.0.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.8.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.10.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

I’m pleased to announce that Spring Integration Framework 4.3 GA is now available from repo.spring.io, as well as Maven Central! Also the maintainance 4.2.8 version has been released, too. Together with an internal 4.2.7 release it includes some important bug fixes.

In addition to the feature themes mentioned in 4.3 RC1 announcement, the GA release includes several major changes:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 4.3 GA, Spring AMQP 1.6 GA, Spring Security 4.1 GA;

• The FtpRemoteFileTemplate now provides ExistsMode option to control how an exists() operation should work;

• The FileSplitter lets represent FileMarker object as a JSON string (markersJson option) to avoid an additional spring-integration-file dependency on the consumer applications in distributed environments;

• A new JdbcLockRegistry feature has been introduced. Special thanks to Dave Syer!

• The Integration Graph has been improved with generic gateway nodes and LinkNode now has a type (input, output, error, discard, route) property for better visualization experience;

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 1 of the Spring Cloud Brixton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

This is primarily a bug fix release with a few small features. Of particular note is a change that allows Brixton Eureka Servers to work with Angel Eureka clients.

The following modules were updated as part of Brixton.SR1:

• Spring Cloud Commons 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Config 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Consul 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.1.1.RELEASE & 1.1.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Zookeeper 1.0.1.RELEASE
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Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.3 GA (a.k.a. 4.3.0.RELEASE) is now available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central!

In addition to the feature themes mentioned in my 4.3 RC1 announcement, the GA release covers compatibility with several recent third-party releases, in particular: Hibernate ORM 5.2, Jackson 2.8, Netty 4.1, Undertow 1.4, and Tomcat 8.5.2 / 9.0 M6. Also, please note that our Hibernate 3.x support is finally deprecated (even Hibernate 4.x is not actively supported by Red Hat anymore) and that Spring 4.3's Jackson support requires…

Shortly after the 1.0.1.RELEASE announcement last week we’ve identified a critical and very specific issue concerning multi-binder configurations in cloud environments. As a result, we have decided to follow up with a 1.0.2.RELEASE to handle that and ensure that the fix is available in the upcoming Brixton.SR1 release. The artifacts can be found in Spring Repository as well as Maven Central.

I will be talking about Spring Cloud Stream at Spring One Platform, which will be taking place in Las Vegas between August 1-4 this year. There are many other great talks so check the agenda and get your ticket if you haven’t done so…

I am pleased to announce the newest addition to the Spring Cloud family. Spring Cloud Cloud Foundry Service Broker is a framework for building service brokers for the Cloud Foundry platform.

Cloud Foundry service brokers

Service brokers provide a means to extend Cloud Foundry with managed services that can be consumed by applications deployed to the platform. Managed services typically expose some sort of resource to an application, such as a database or other persistent store, a messaging system, or other supporting infrastructure. Service brokers publish a catalog of services and service…

On behalf of the Spring Integration and Spring Cloud Stream teams, I’m pleased to announce that the spring-kafka (Spring for Apache Kafka) Release Candidate for version 1.0 is now available.

The artifacts org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:1.0.0.RC1 and org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka-test:1.0.0.RC1 are available in the Milestone repository.

First of all many thanks to everyone involved, to active community members, who provided feature requests and contributions. Special thanks to Martin Dam, who spent a lot of time helping us with the pause/resume algorithm to handle slow…

I am pleased to announce that the spring-integration-kafka (Spring Integration Kafka Support) Release Candidate for version 2.0 is now available.

The artifact org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-kafka:2.0.0.RC1 is available in the Milestone Repository.

This version is based on the just released Spring for Apache Kafka release candidate 1.0.0.RC1.

There are not many changes since the previous Milestone 1. Just some general internal fixes and upgrades to accommodate recent Spring for Apache Kafka changes.

The Spring Integration Java DSL 1.2 and its Kafka09 Factory has also been…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.1.RELEASE is now available. The artifacts can be found in Spring Repository as well as Maven Central.

As a maintenance release it includes a number of fixes and improvements, such as:

• additional configuration options for bindings;
• the ability to create binder configurations that do not interfere with the user-created ones; this is a feature useful for libraries that include Spring Cloud Stream under the hood and wish to do so

transparently.

The entire list of changes can be found here.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the project, and continue to do so either directly by opening pull requests or issues in GitHub issues, or asking Stack Overflow…