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…

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.6 RC1. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the release highlights:

PCF Scheduler

The Pivotal Cloud Foundry implementation of Scheduler improved on a few fronts to enhance the developer experience. Validation of the cron-expression and proactive measures to prevent the scheduler service from creating incorrect schedules is now part of this release.

Dashboard

The stream deployment history is available for review from the Dashboard. It is convenient to review the context…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.5.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a handful of bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 1.x users.

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It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.2.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes 4 bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users.

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I am pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 1.0.6.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, Bintray, and the Gradle Plugin Portal. This maintenance release fixes four issues.

For Spring Boot users, the new version will be included in the Spring Boot 1.5.15 and 2.0.4 releases. For all other users of the plugin, 1.0.6 is a recommended manual upgrade.

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already midway through the year?? Stunning.

This week I'm in San Francisco preparing for a video shoot next week and a joint presentatio with Google's Ray Tsang at next week's Google NEXT and tomorrow it's off to Portland, OR, for the epic OSCON event where I'll be doing a book signing at the O'Reilly booth on Wednesday and I'll be doing a talk, Reactive Spring, on thursday. As usual, if you're in the region and want to chat or grab a Voodoo doughnut, don't hesitate to say hi!

Now, without further…