It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring for Apache Kafka 1.0.2 maintenance release is available now.

As usual, thanks to the community for any feedback and contribution all the ways!

This release contains several critical bug fixes, therefore an upgrade is highly recommended. The master branch has now switched to 1.1 and we are starting migrating to Kafka 0.10 and other features on the matter with possible Milestone 1 later this month.

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For more details about Spring for Apache Kafka , check Gary Russell’s session at SpringOne Platform, which is 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…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 3 of the Spring Cloud Brixton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

Included in this release is the GA release of Spring Cloud Task.

Other than the addition of Spring Cloud Task, this release includes primarily bug fixes.

The following modules were updated as part of Brixton.SR3:

• Spring Cloud Security 1.1.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.0.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Task 1.0.1.RELEASE

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either on GitHub, on gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Task 1.0.1.RELEASE. This is the recommended GA release for Spring Cloud Task and is available from Maven Central as well as the usual other locations.

How did we get here?

Spring Cloud Task, is a step in an evolution of data applications in the Spring portfolio. As we announce this release, it may be helpful to look at how we got to this point.

It began with Spring Batch

Built upon the Spring portfolio, the evolution of this type of finite workload really began with Spring Batch. One of the main workload specific extensions of the Spring framework, Spring Batch provided functionality for performing finite amounts of processing in an enterprise friendly way. With multiple processing models (Tasklet vs Chunk) as well as scalability options that allowed for…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 2.0.6.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:

• Spring Boot 1.3.6.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.2.7.RELEASE
• Spring Integration 4.2.8.RELEASE
• Spring REST Docs 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Spring Retry 1.1.3.RELEASE
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.10.RELEASE

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Spring Framework 4.3.1 and Spring Security 4.1.1 provide fixes for CVE-2016-5007 "Spring Security / MVC Path Matching Inconsistency".

Applications using Spring Security and Spring MVC should upgrade to Spring Security 4.1.1+ and Spring Framework 4.3.1+ and use the MvcRequestMatcher.

Additional details and further mitigations can be found in CVE-2016-5007.

I’m pleased to announce that the Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.2 M1 is available now!

First of I’d like to thank everyone who created issues, raised Pull Requests, provided feedback or just asked questions on StackOverflow. Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today!

The artifact org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-java-dsl:1.2.0.M1 is available in the Milestone repo. So, give it a shot and don’t hesitate to raise a GH issue for any feedback!

Some highlights of the current iteration:

Apache Kafka 0.9 support

Based on the recently released Spring for Apache Kafka project, a new Kafka09 factory has been introduced. This is straightforward Java DSL factory for producing IntegrationComponentSpec fluent API builders for adapters based on the a Spring for Apache Kafka foundation. An existing Kafka factory for Apache Kafka 0.8…

I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.1.RELEASE which resolves over 50 issues. This release provides mitigation for CVE-2016-5007 There are also lots of bug fixes, but there are also a few notable enhancements.

• MvcRequestMatcher provides deep integration with Spring MVC to ensure consistent path matching strategies for authorization rules

• CORS Support that can leverage Spring MVC’s CORS configuration

• CookieCsrfTokenRepository.withHttpOnlyFalse() for easily integrating with AngularJS applications

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.0 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Neon 4.6 GA
• all new Spring Boot code templates
• improved Spring Boot YML and property editors (more advanced content-assist, quick-fixes, and more)
• many small improvements to improve developer productivity
• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.1.4

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.8.0 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in rainy but beautiful Seoul, South Korea and Tokyo (come join me for a talk on Wednesday!), Osaka, and Hiroshima, Japan where I'll be doing a few meetups and talking to businesses of all shapes and sizes. If you're in either region, please hit me up!

This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there's so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year's SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It's an amazing time to build applications, and…