Beginning today, we enter a new chapter in the tooling landscape for Spring and the development of enterprise applications built on top of the de-facto standard, Spring Boot. By unveiling the public beta of the next generation of our Spring tooling, we allow developers around the globe to get a preview of what is coming next to improve their developer experience around Spring and Spring Boot.

Spring Aware

The all-new Spring Tools 4 analyze your projects on the fly, understand the Spring constructs inside, and provide easy and super quick navigation to all your Spring elements. Finding a…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this Spring Tips, we'll look at Spring Tool Suite 4, new runtime feedback and the IDE-agnostic language servers that underpin all of it. I'm releasing this Spring Tips installment early, just in time SpringOne Platform 2017 and the big announcements of the day.

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.0.0.RELEASE is now available through Github, the Pivotal download repository, and Maven Central. This is the generally available release of the 4.0 line. Many thanks to all that contributed to this release.

How We Got Here

Spring Batch 4 is the first major version release of Spring Batch since 3.0 went out in 2014. A lot has changed in the Spring ecosystem since that version went out. This release is intended to bring Spring Batch up to date with those changes. When Spring Batch 3 came out, Java configuration was just beginning to take over…

Greetings Spring community,

In preparation for the soon-to-be GA release, Spring Session, Spring Session MongoDB, and Spring Session for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire have all aligned to versions 2.0.0.RC2 for this release.

In case you missed it, this is what’s included with each of the modules:

• Core - includes support for Redis, JDBC, and Hazelcast

• MongoDB - both traditional blocking as well as reactive support for MongoDB

• Apache Geode - support for Apache Geode as well as Pivotal GemFire (including the PCC service with the SSC extension on PCF)

In this version, Spring Session has…

I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring for Apache Kafka 2.1.0.RELEASE.

In addition, maintenance releases 1.3.2.RELEASE and 2.0.2.RELEASE are available, containing important bug fixes. See also below for information about spring-integration-kafka 3.0.0.RELEASE. It is recommended that all users upgrade.

The main purpose of the 2.1 release is to upgrade the kafka-clients library to 1.0.0, but we have included a few improvements:

• Sometimes, when a message can’t be processed, you may wish to stop the container so the condition can be corrected and the message re-delivered. The framework now provides the ContainerStoppingErrorHandler for record listeners and ContainerStoppingBatchErrorHandler for batch listeners.

• The KafkaAdmin now supports increasing partitions when a NewTopic bean is detected with a larger number of partitions than currently exist on the topic.

• StringJsonMessageConverter and JsonSerializer/JsonDeserializer now pass and consume type information in Headers. This allows multiple types to be easily sent/received on the same topic:

  @SpringBootApplication public class Kafka21Application {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
      SpringApplication.run(Kafka21Application.class, args)
          .close();
  }
  
  @Bean
  public ApplicationRunner runner(KafkaTemplate<Object, Object> template) {
      return args -> {
          template.send(MessageBuilder.withPayload(42)
                  .setHeader(KafkaHeaders.TOPIC, "blog")
                  .build());
          template.send(MessageBuilder.withPayload("4…

We are pleased to announce the 1.3.0.M3 release of the Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry.

The Getting Started Guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

Release Highlights

Stream updates, a JavaDSL, and the complete port of the UI to the Angular 4.0 stack are some of the main highlights. More information on release highlights can be found in the release blog for the core Data Flow project.

Of note for the Cloud Foundry server is an upgrade to v2.23.0 of the cf-java client library and setting the default health check to be http instead of port. You can now also specify the…

On behalf of the team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.0.M7 has been released and is now available from our milestone repository. This release closes 165 issues and pull requests and continues our progress towards 2.0 GA. Thanks to everyone that has contributed!

This release refines a number of items from previous milestones, and provides a number of notable new features:

• Condition evaluation report deltas on Devtools triggered restart
• A new scheduled tasks actuator endpoint
• Support for Duration types in configuration properties (e.g. 5ms, 1s, 10m)
• Reactive Couchbase support
…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at the new API gateway project, Spring Cloud Gateway, to support edge service requirements like rate limiting, circuit breakers, proxying, and more.

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I am pleased to announce that the GA release for the Spring Integration 5.0 version (5.0.0.RELEASE) is now available.

It can be downloaded from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.0.0.RELEASE"

First of all, special thanks to all community members for their ongoing active contributions to the framework!

Several JIRAs (and some GitHub issues), since the previously announced RC1, are included in this release, mostly bug fixes from early adopters and Reference Manual…