On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.0.RC2, available here. As part of the release candidate cycle, it comes with a number of bug fixes and a small number adjustments. The complete list of changes is available here.

Some highlights:

• Spring Cloud Stream applications now use the ObjectMapper provided by Spring Boot, if available;
• Header embedding is now a general purpose producer/consumer property. It can be enabled or disabled by middlewares that require embedding for header propagation. This allows easier interoperability outside Spring Cloud Stream; (until now it was a Kafka-specific property);
• Further documentation and sample improvements.

We are looking forward to a 1.0.0.RELEASE in a couple of weeks, in the second part of April.

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either in GitHub, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.