On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 5 (SR5) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes or the Spring Cloud Project for more information.

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

This release contains bug fixes, minor enhancements and documentation updates.

This is the final scheduled release for the Greenwich Release Train (see here for more details). We reccomend you upgrade to Hoxton as soon as possible. Greenwich.SR5 is based on Spring…

On behalf the Spring, Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) 2.1.8.RELEASE, 2.2.2.RELEASE as well as the 2.3.0.M1 release.

It should also be noted that SSDG works with Pivotal Cloud Cache as well. Pivotal Cloud Cache is powered by Apache Geode. Spring Boot for Apache Geode (SBDG) makes configuring and using Spring Session for Pivotal Cloud Cache a simple matter. See here and here for more details.

SSDG 2.1.8.RELEASE builds on the latest Spring Framework 5.1.13.RELEASE, Spring Data…

On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.1.5.RELEASE, 1.2.4.RELEASE and 1.3.0.M1.

In addition to support for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire, SBDG has dedicated support for, and works seamlessly with, Pivotal Cloud Cache as well. See here for more details. The importance of this project goal cannot be overstated.

SBDG 1.1.5.RELEASE builds on the latest Spring Boot 2.1.12.RELEASE and is based on Spring Framework 5.1.13.RELEASE, Spring Data Lovelace-SR15 (SDG…

This is a maintenance release for small bug fixes, enhancements, and dependency updates. Generally speaking, we’re now on Spring Cloud Hoxton SR1. List of fixed issues can be found from 2.3.1 Issue List

Maven Preemptive Authentication

Support for using Maven Wagon transport for HTTP has been added to the Maven Artifact Resolver infrastructure. The driver for this was a request from a user to be able to use preemptive authentication with JFrog’s artifactory. Use of it is currently optional via a property but we’re looking to make it default sometime in the future and possibly introduce more…

UI Changes to Stream Editor

Stream Editor went through a much-needed touch of love and should now be more visually appealing. Here’s a simple screenshot what it looks like:

Maven Preemptive Authentication

Support for using Maven Wagon transport for HTTP has been added to the Maven Artifact Resolver infrastructure. The driver for this was a request from a user to be able to use preemptive authentication with JFrog’s artifactory. Use of it is currently optional via a property but we’re looking to make it default sometime in the future and possibly introduce more wagon transports which might…

Dear Spring Community,

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I’m excited to announce that with the New Year we have some news to share with you. First of all, it is an honor to have taken over the lead role for the Spring Integration project. Gary Russell is still in the team and he leads Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Kafka projects. Secondly we have just released the first milestone for Spring Integration of version 5.3.

It can be downloaded from our milestone repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.3.0.M1"

This version is going to be a foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.3…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes 167 issues and pull requests.

Highlights of this first milestone include:

• Support for building Docker images using Cloud Native Buildpacks
• Support for building layered jars for building optimized Docker images
• End-to-end traceability for Configuration Properties
• Numerous dependency upgrades
• Support for Spring Data Neumann M1 which ships with major driver upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.5.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) improvement: live hover mechanism now reports connection failures
• (Eclipse) improvement: Add support for async completions in 4.15 (#402) - PR from @gayanper
• (Eclipse) improvement: Early access builds for Eclipse 4.15 available
• (Eclipse) fixed: auto-completion inserted extra newline for params in @Value annotations
• (Eclipse) fixed: Boot Dashboard cannot start app when Eclipse project name contains spaces (#403)
• (Eclipse) fixed: NPE in PropertiesJavaDefinitionHandler.adjustedHighlightRangeForKey (#401)
• (Eclipse) fixed…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.4 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 6 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades and was released shortly after Spring Boot 2.2.3 to work around a dependency resolution problem with Gradle 5.3 to 5.6.

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…