On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.0.RELEASE. The artifacts can be found in Spring Repository as well as Maven Central.

The goal of Spring Cloud Stream is to be a lightweight framework for developing event-driven microservices, building on the ease of development and deployment of Spring Boot, and the component model and integration capabilities of Spring Integration. As part of the Spring Cloud family of projects, it has a specific focus on cloud-native architectures.

In order to simplify the development of both streaming and…

Spring IO Platform 2.0.4.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 to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Reactor 2.0.8.RELEASE
• Spring AMQP 1.5.5.RELEASE
• Spring Batch 3.0.7.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.3.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.2.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.2.6.RELEASE
• Spring Security 4.0.4.RELEASE

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

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We are pleased to announce that the Spring AMQP 1.6 release candidate (1.6.0.RC1) is now available in the spring milestone repo.

The 1.5.6 maintenance release is also available with a few bug fixes.

Here is a summary of the 1.6.0 release contents, for more details, refer to the what's new in the reference documentation as well as the closed JIRA Issues for this release.

• A new jar spring-rabbit-test containing a test harness to help with testing @RabbitListener methods; see the testing chapter.

• Multiple @RabbitListener annotations on a method (when using Java 8) and the @RabbitListeners annotation (for pre-Java 8), each allowing the same method to be the listener method for multiple listener containers.

• Full support for the Delayed Message Exchange RabbitMQ plugin.

• An AsyncRabbitTemplate returning ListenableFuture<?> for request/reply messaging.

• An option to publish ApplicationEvents when listener containers go idle.

• The caching connection factory now exposes cache statistics

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It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring Framework 4.2.6 and 3.2.17 maintenance releases are available now. We also released the second release candidate of the 4.3 line.

4.3 RC2 contains many refinements and fixes, especially in the web framework area. We are about to finalize 4.3 with a scheduled GA in early June. Preparations towards merging 5.0 features into master will happen right afterwards, with a first 5.0 milestone expected in July.

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Spring Boot 1.3.4 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.

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On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.0.RELEASE. This release evolved through 4.1.0 RC1, 4.1.0 RC2, and 4.1.0 closing nearly 200 tickets.

What’s New in Spring Security 4.1

You can find highlights of what's new in the What’s New in Spring Security 4.1 section of the reference. For details refer to the changelog links above.

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 (our latest full time Spring Security team member) @joe_grandja…

On behalf of the Spring Cloud Data Flow team, I am pleased to announce the 1.0.0.M2 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry.

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry allows one to use all the goodness of Spring Cloud Data Flow (like the Shell, UI and Flo) while targeting Cloud Foundry as a backend. Stream components are deployed as individual apps in Cloud Foundry, leveraging the power of the platform to handle scaling and health monitoring.

This second milestone

• builds upon the 1.0.0.M1 release of Cloud Foundry implementation of spring-cloud-deployer
• builds upon the 1.0.0.M3 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow
• builds upon the 2.0.0.M4 release of the Cloud Foundry java client, leveraging its reactive programming style
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On behalf of the Spring Cloud Data Flow team, I am pleased to announce the 1.0.0.M2 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apache YARN.

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Apache YARN allows one to use all the goodness of Spring Cloud Data Flow (like the Shell, UI and Flo) while targeting Apache YARN as a backend. Stream components are deployed as individual apps in Apache YARN, leveraging the power of the platform to handle scaling and health monitoring.

This second milestone

• builds upon the 1.0.0.M1 release of Spring Cloud YARN Deployer.
• builds upon the 1.0.0.M3 release of Spring Cloud Data Flow.
• Adds Spring Cloud Task support to orchestrate short-lived tasks including Spring Batch jobs in a YARN cluster.
• Improved IP address discovery for internal coordination.
• Adds support to host, resolve and register OOTB apps from HDFS.
• Adds installable RPM bits.
• Adds Ambari plugin to provision SCDF on YARN.
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We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Task 1.0.0.M2. This is the second milestone of the Spring Cloud Task project with some exciting new features!

What's New?

With the M1 release of Spring Cloud Task, we introduced the concept of a task, the @EnableTask annotation, and the general concept of a microservice that has an end. We've been quite busy since then. Some of the highlights of what is new include:

• Spring Cloud Task Listeners
• Integration with Spring Cloud Stream
• Integration with Spring Batch
• More samples

Let's take a look at what each of these include.

Spring Cloud…