Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.7.3 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to latest Eclipse Mars.2 (4.5.2) release + early access of STS on Eclipse Neon (4.6) M5
• content assist, validation and hover help for Cloud Foundry manifest files
• support for multiple launch configurations for local apps in Spring Boot dashboard
• first class handling of Cloud Foundry manifest files in the Spring Boot dashboard
• service instances on Cloud Foundry now visible in the Spring Boot dashboard
• major improvements to the Spring Boot YML and properties editors (including new and advanced content-assist options)

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 3.7.3 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.8.0 is scheduled to ship in early July 2016, based on Eclipse Neon (4.6).

Enjoy!

On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.3.3 and 1.4.0.M1 have been released today. Spring Boot 1.3.3 includes 60 fixes and a selection of improvements and dependency upgrades. This release is a recommended upgrade for all users.

Spring Boot 1.4.0.M1 is available in the Spring milestone repository and provides a number of improvements and new features. For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.4 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation has also been updated.

Thanks again to everyone that has contributed to the release! Please give it a go and report any problems using the project Issue tracker…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.4.RELEASE. This release is the fourth maintenance release of the 4.0 line. It provides minor fixes along with a fix for backwards compatibility of Spring Framework 4.1.x. For complete details on the release, refer to the Change Log.

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It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2.5 is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central! This fifth maintenance release in the 4.2 line contains 40 fixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all 4.x users, in particular also from 4.1 now.

Our next stop is the first release candidate of Spring Framework 4.3 next month, with many key features (including several core container refinements) available in the snapshots already. Please give a 4.3 snapshot a try and let us know if you encounter any regressions.

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On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.1.0.RELEASE. The release can be found in Maven Central.

Change Log

With over 80 issues resolved, there is plenty found in this release. You can find a complete list of changes in the change logs (1.1.0.M1, 1.1.0.RC1, 1.1.0.RELEASE). A summary of the changes can be found below:

• Support for Hazelcast. Thanks @_mark_a and @tommyludwig!
• Support for GemFire Thanks to John Blum!
• Support for search for session by username
• Support Customize Cookie Creation. Thanks to everyone who provided PRs and feedback for this feature!
• Add HttpSessionListener support
• Allow override default RedisSerializer
• Performance improvements
• Allow scoping the session in Redis using redisNamespace. Thanks fstegmann!
• Allow writing to Redis immediately (instead of lazily) using redisFlushMode
• Add ExpiringSession.setLastAccessedTime(long)
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Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.3.1 and Flo for Spring XD 1.0.1

• Spring XD 1.3.1 GA: zip, brew and rpm.
• Flo for Spring XD 1.0.1 GA: zip.

Here are some highlights of bug fixes and general improvements. Consult the JIRA release notes for the full list of issues fixed.

• Support for encryption in XD configuration files
• Support for Kafka sync or async producers
• Fix for Embedded Headers Message Converter Buffer Overflow
• Update default redis pool settings to have no limit on number of active connections
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 4.2.5, Spring Framework 4.2.5, Spring AMQP 3.6
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In preparation of a Spring Boot service release on the horizon, I am pleased to announce the fourth service release of the Spring Data release train Gosling. As usual, service releases contain bugfixes — 45 in total this time —, so that an upgrade is highly recommended.

• Spring Data Commons 1.11.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.9.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.3.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.5.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.7.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.4.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.8.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I’m happy to announce the First Milestone of the Spring Integration 4.3 release.

4.3 is planned to be only a minor release with a few new features and improvements over 4.2 and will close out the 4.x line. Meanwhile we are looking forward to embrace the Reactive Foundation for the JVM in Spring Integration 5.0. We have yet to determine exactly what that means, so stay tuned! In addition, 5.0 (2017) will include the (currently separate) Spring Integration Java DSL.

We plan on finalizing 4.3 over the next few months before switching our attention full-time to 5.0 so, if there is some must have feature you need before next year…

It's my pleasure to announce that the first milestone of Spring REST Docs 1.1 has been released. 1.1.0.M1 is available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone/.

What's new?

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.

Markdown

Support has been added for generating Markdown snippets. On its own, Markdown isn't as capable as Asciidoctor, but can work very well when combined with existing documentation toolchains such as Slate…