On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Boot 2.1 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 180 issues and pull requests!

This first milestone builds on and requires Spring Framework 5.1.RC1. It also builds on recent releases of a number of other Spring projects including Spring Data Lovelace RC1 and Spring Security 5.1 M2 to name just two.

Other highlights of this first milestone include:

• Servlet 4 support with Undertow 2.0 and Tomcat 9.0
• Caches endpoint
• Support for querying an individual component's health
• Support for profile expressions in multi-profile YAML documents and <springProfile> Logback configuration.
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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.6.0. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Feature highlights for 1.6 GA

• Task Scheduling on PCF

• Dashboard improvments

• Kubernetes support enhancements

• App hosting tool

• Composed Task Runner security

• DSL and deployment property parsing refinements

• Batch Database Schema and Optimization

Task Scheduling on PCF

We are happy to introduce the native integration of PCF Scheduler in the SCDF for Cloud Foundry implementation!

A typical workflow for batch data processing…

Spring Cloud Edgware will follow the Spring Boot 1.x EOL announcement. We will cease maintenance of the Edgware release train twelve months from today, on Aug 1st 2019.

We will keep publishing occasional Edgware service releases up until that point and will then end the release train.

As a reminder, the Camden release train has reached EOL, and Dalston will reach EOL at the end of December 2018.

Existing Spring Cloud users should plan accordingly to ensure that they have upgraded to the latest Finchley+ version before that date. Also, please note that Spring Cloud Finchley and later requires…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Ingalls SR14 and Kay SR9 release. Kay SR9 ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.0.8. Spring Boot 2.0.4 is going to pick up Kay SR9 for your convenience. Ingalls SR14 will be picked up by Spring Boot 1.5.15. Both releases ship with mostly bugfixes and a few dependency upgrades.

Ingalls SR14 ships with 28 tickets fixed and Kay SR9 contains 59 tickets fixed.

To round things off, here are the links to the changelogs, documentation, and artifacts:

Ingalls SR14

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.14 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that a feature-complete Spring Framework 5.1 release candidate is available from our milestone repository now! Find a comprehensive list of new features and refinements and corresponding upgrade notes on our GitHub wiki.

Spring Framework 5.1 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the next long-term support release. We strongly recommend an upgrade to 5.1 for any applications targeting JDK 11, delivering a warning-free experience on the classpath as well as the module path. Beyond that, initial refinements for GraalVM…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, it is my pleasure to announce the availability of the Lovelace RC1 release. The first release candidate ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.1 RC1 and in preparation of the upcoming Spring Boot 2.1 M1 release.

This release candidate ships with 194 tickets fixed and contains the following notable changes:

• Support for immutable objects.
• Upgrade of Querydsl for MongoDB to use the Document API, letting you publish lifecycle events and participation in managed transactions.
• Reactive Slice query support for Apache Cassandra.
• Kotlin extension for Apache Cassandra.
• Reactive SCAN support for Redis.
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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.0.8 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.0.8 includes 40 fixes and selected improvements and is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0.4 release next week.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Spring Security 5.0.7 (changelog) has been released. The release primarily delivers bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements. The releases will be found in the upcoming Spring Boot maintenance releases coming later this week.

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco in studio with Spring Security lead Rob Winch filming our new Spring Security Livelessons video. There is so much to cover that, as you can imagine, it's a tall order even for the two of us!

I'm also busily preparing for my talk with my buddy and Googler Ray Tsang at this week's Google Cloud NEXT event on all things Pivotal and Google Cloud. We're going to look at the bootiful Spring Cloud GCP project and, importantly, the new project jointly announced between Google and Pivotal just this morning, KNative, which serves as the platform on which we at Pivotal have built and deployed our Project Riff serverless function-as-a-service runtime. Do not…