I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR13 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 AMQP 1.7.10
• Spring Boot 1.5.16
• Spring Data Ingalls SR15
• Spring Framework 4.3.19
• Spring Security 4.2.8

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 Cairo-SR4 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 AMQP 2.0.6
• Spring Boot 2.0.6
• Spring Cloud Connectors 2.0.3
• Spring Data Kay SR10
• Spring Framework 5.0.9
• Spring Integration 5.0.8
• Spring Kafka 2.1.10
• Spring Security 5.0.8
• Spring Session Apple SR5

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

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It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.5 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 2.0.5 includes 87 fixes, improvements and dependency updates (including an important security fix for Spring AMQP). Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Security 5.0.8 (changelog) and 4.2.8 (changelog) have been released. The releases primarily deliver bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements. The releases will be found in the upcoming Spring Boot maintenance releases coming this week.

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Istanbul, Turkey, talking to customers and participating in the epic SpringOne Platform Istanbul event and otherwise generally preparing for the flagship SpringOne Platform 2018 event in just a few short weeks

• Spring Security lead Josh Cummings just announced Spring Security 5.1.0.RC2. The new release supports a ton of new stuff including a simplified DSL for OAuth 2, WebClient extensions, servlet enhancements, improved resource server support, improved RestTemplate support, support for X.509 and use of environment variables for configuring LDAP.
• Mark Paluch has just announced the packed Spring Data Ingalls SR15 and Spring Data Kay SR10
• Mark Paluch has just announced Spring Vault 2.0.2, which delivers dependency updates and some minor bug fixes
• Mark Paluch just announced the Spring Vault 2.1 release candidate. Spring Vault 2.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. This…

Rarely we blog about a single feature, but given that this one was one of the most requested ones in Spring Cloud Function (relatively young project), we thought it may be appropriate, so here it is.

Initial support for Kotlin lambdas has been added to Spring Cloud Function. What it means is that Spring Cloud Function can now recognize Kotlin lambdas that effectively match to one of Java's Supplier, Function or Consumer and treat them as such.

That is:

@Bean
open fun kotlinFunction(): (String) -> String {
    return  { it.toUpperCase() }
}

@Bean
open fun kotlinConsumer(): (String…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.16 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.16 includes 27 fixes, improvements and dependency updates (including an important security fix for Spring AMQP). Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.0.RC2. This release comes with 50+ tickets closed.

As always we look forward to hearing your feedback! You can find the highlights below:

Table of Contents

• Simplified DSL for OAuth2

• WebClient Extensions

• Servlet Enhancements

  • OAuth2

    • Token Request Configuration

    • More Provider Configuration Metadata Available

    • Resource Server Claims Mapping

    • RestOperations Support

  • Other Improvements

    • X.509 Principal Extractor

    • LDAP Custom Environment Variables

• WebFlux Enhancements

  • OAuth2 Resource Server

  • OAuth2 Client

  • Redirect to Https

• Dependency Updates

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