On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.3 (changelog), 5.0.11 (changelog), and 4.2.11 (changelog). This series of releases provides a round of bug fixes and users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.19 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.19 is a maintenance release that includes 17 dependency updates.

If you haven’t already upgraded to Spring Boot 2, please consider doing so as support for 1.x will end on August 1st 2019.

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.8 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 35 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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.

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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Lovelace SR4, Kay SR13, and Ingalls SR18 maintenance releases. Today's releases pick up the latest Spring Framework maintenance releases: 5.1.4, 5.0.12, and 4.3.22, respectively. The upcoming Spring Boot releases (2.1.2, 2.0.8, and 1.5.19) are going to pick up Lovelace SR4, Kay SR13, and Ingalls SR18, for your convenience.

The service releases ship with bug fixes and dependency upgrades and address over 170 tickets in total. You can find the complete list of tickets by following the links below:

• Lovelace SR4
• Kay SR13
• Ingalls SR18
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I’m pleased to announce the general availability release of Spring CredHub 2.0.0, available now in Maven Central.

CredHub

CredHub provides centralized credential management to the Cloud Foundry platform. CredHub implements an HTTP API to securely store, generate, retrieve, and delete credentials of various types.

Spring CredHub provides a Java binding for the CredHub API, making it easy to integrate Spring applications with CredHub.

What’s New

The Spring CredHub 2.0.0 release includes the following enhancements:

• Supports CredHub server versions 1.x and 2.x, and the CredHub v1 and v2 APIs

• Provides compatibility with Spring Framework 5.1 and Spring Boot 2.1

• Addition of a reactive interface using Reactor

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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.4, 5.0.12 and 4.3.22 are available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now.

5.1.4 is a significant refinement release, addressing several regressions and gaps that have been identified since 5.1 GA, coming as an immediate upgrade for all 5.1.x users.

Please note that 5.0.12 is the last planned 5.0.x release, with 5.0 approaching its EOL in March 2019. All 5.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade to 5.1.4+ for further fixes and refinements.

The 4.3.x line reaches an extended support phase now, with no regular…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.7 maintenance release of the Spring Tool Suite 3.

Highlights from this update release include:

• updated to Eclipse 2018-12 release
• added support for Buildship 3
• added full-blown embedded properties editor for boot launch configs
• boot dashboard now shows live request mappings and beans for reactive web boot apps, too
• various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite 3: https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all
• Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.7 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

For a complete list of issues in this release across all projects see the project page on GitHub.

Spring Cloud Contract

• Added support for binary payloads (GH-818)

Spring Cloud Security

• Spring Cloud Gateway Filter added to support OAuth2 (GH-141). A sample application demonstrating its use is available here.
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NOTE: This is a guest post from our friends at Alibaba.

Hello everyone! Today, we’re very excited to announce that the 0.2.1.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Alibaba is available now.

Release highlights:

• Added two new modules to Spring Cloud Alibaba: spring-cloud-alibaba-schedulerx and spring-cloud-stream-binder-rocketmq.
• Added some new features in spring-cloud-alibaba-nacos and spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel.
• Fixed some bugs in the previous version.

Notes:

• The Spring Cloud Alibaba project is a community project maintained by Alibaba.

• The 0.2.1.RELEASE is compatible with Spring Cloud Finchley. Also included in this version is a 0.1.1.RELEASE, which is compatible with Spring Cloud Edgware. 0.1.1.RELEASE also contains the components and features that are new in 0.2.1.

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