On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 1 of the Spring Cloud Brixton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

This is primarily a bug fix release with a few small features. Of particular note is a change that allows Brixton Eureka Servers to work with Angel Eureka clients.

The following modules were updated as part of Brixton.SR1:

• Spring Cloud Commons 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Config 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Consul 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.1.1.RELEASE & 1.1.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Zookeeper 1.0.1.RELEASE
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Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.3 GA (a.k.a. 4.3.0.RELEASE) is now available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central!

In addition to the feature themes mentioned in my 4.3 RC1 announcement, the GA release covers compatibility with several recent third-party releases, in particular: Hibernate ORM 5.2, Jackson 2.8, Netty 4.1, Undertow 1.4, and Tomcat 8.5.2 / 9.0 M6. Also, please note that our Hibernate 3.x support is finally deprecated (even Hibernate 4.x is not actively supported by Red Hat anymore) and that Spring 4.3's Jackson support requires…

Shortly after the 1.0.1.RELEASE announcement last week we’ve identified a critical and very specific issue concerning multi-binder configurations in cloud environments. As a result, we have decided to follow up with a 1.0.2.RELEASE to handle that and ensure that the fix is available in the upcoming Brixton.SR1 release. The artifacts can be found in Spring Repository as well as Maven Central.

I will be talking about Spring Cloud Stream at Spring One Platform, which will be 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 if you haven’t done so…

I am pleased to announce the newest addition to the Spring Cloud family. Spring Cloud Cloud Foundry Service Broker is a framework for building service brokers for the Cloud Foundry platform.

Cloud Foundry service brokers

Service brokers provide a means to extend Cloud Foundry with managed services that can be consumed by applications deployed to the platform. Managed services typically expose some sort of resource to an application, such as a database or other persistent store, a messaging system, or other supporting infrastructure. Service brokers publish a catalog of services and service…

On behalf of the Spring Integration and Spring Cloud Stream teams, I’m pleased to announce that the spring-kafka (Spring for Apache Kafka) Release Candidate for version 1.0 is now available.

The artifacts org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka:1.0.0.RC1 and org.springframework.kafka:spring-kafka-test:1.0.0.RC1 are available in the Milestone repository.

First of all many thanks to everyone involved, to active community members, who provided feature requests and contributions. Special thanks to Martin Dam, who spent a lot of time helping us with the pause/resume algorithm to handle slow…

I am pleased to announce that the spring-integration-kafka (Spring Integration Kafka Support) Release Candidate for version 2.0 is now available.

The artifact org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-kafka:2.0.0.RC1 is available in the Milestone Repository.

This version is based on the just released Spring for Apache Kafka release candidate 1.0.0.RC1.

There are not many changes since the previous Milestone 1. Just some general internal fixes and upgrades to accommodate recent Spring for Apache Kafka changes.

The Spring Integration Java DSL 1.2 and its Kafka09 Factory has also been…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.1.RELEASE is now available. The artifacts can be found in Spring Repository as well as Maven Central.

As a maintenance release it includes a number of fixes and improvements, such as:

• additional configuration options for bindings;
• the ability to create binder configurations that do not interfere with the user-created ones; this is a feature useful for libraries that include Spring Cloud Stream under the hood and wish to do so

transparently.

The entire list of changes can be found here.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to the project, and continue to do so either directly by opening pull requests or issues in GitHub issues, or asking Stack Overflow…

We are pleased to announce that the Spring AMQP 1.6 GA (1.6.0.RELEASE) is now available in the spring release repo, as well as in the Maven Central.

First of all, thanks to everyone who contributed to the project any way: JIRAs, GitHub issues, Pull Requests, blog posts & articles and even just with simple StackOverflow questions!

You can find the full feature pack in the previous Spring AMQP 1.6 RC1 blog post. You can refer to the what’s new in the reference documentation as well as the closed JIRA Issues for the entire 1.6 version.

Nevertheless we encountered with the couple last minute…

It's my pleasure to announce the release of Spring REST Docs 1.1.0.RELEASE which is now available for Maven Central, JCenter and our release repository.

Highlights

REST Assured

As an alternative to the lightweight server-less documentation generation offered by Spring Framework's MockMvc, you can now use REST Assured to test and document your RESTful services. This opens up Spring REST Docs to all four corners of the JVM and beyond, allowing you to document anything that you can access via HTTP.

The samples now include an app that is documented using REST Docs, built using Grails, and tested using Spock. A third-party sample that uses REST Docs to document an API implemented using Ratpack is also available. My thanks to Jenn Strater…