On behalf of the entire team, I’d like to announce the availability of Ingalls SR9 and Kay SR2 releases. We didn't announce Ingalls SR8 at the time we shipped it, apologies for that. The service releases ship over 90 issues fixed in total and are recommended upgrades for all users.

For your convenience the service releases are going to be picked up in the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.9 release, and Kay SR2 will be part of Spring Boot 2.0 M7. You can find the complete list of issues fixed here for Ingalls SR9 and here for Kay SR2.

Spring Data Ingalls SR9

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.9 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.9 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.9 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.9 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.9 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.9 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.9 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.9 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud Edgware Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Edgware release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Edgware Release Train

Spring Cloud Bus

Updates to allow Bus clients to implement remote events in independent packages.

Spring Cloud Task

See the blog post announcing Task 1.2.0.

Spring Cloud Commons

Adds support for back off policy when retrying requests.

Spring Cloud Stream

See the Ditmars release announcement for more…

I am pleased to announce that the 1.1.0.RELEASE of Spring Integration for Amazon Web Services is now available in the Spring release repository and Maven Central.

First of all thanks to all community members for any feedback and contributions to make features in this project available!

Some highlights what we have after a year and a couple months of amazing team work:

• S3StreamingMessageSource to get access to S3 resources content on demand;

• KinesisMessageHandler and KinesisMessageDrivenChannelAdapter for interaction with AWS Kinesis service;

• DynamoDbMetaDataStore to store metadata in the AWS DymanoDB table;

• And, of course, a ton of bug fixes!

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Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we'll look at testing and test-driven development, in general, in terms of the Spring ecosystem.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you beleive we're less than six weeks away from 2018? Time sure flies when you're having fun!

This week I'm in Los Angeles talking to community members and then taking in the Thanksgiving holiday here in the US surrounded by friends and family. Thanksgiving is a chance to reflect on that for which we are thankful. I am sure that I speak for all of us here on the Spring and Pivotal teams when I say that we are thankful for you. Thank you for making this the most amazing, dynamic, exhilarating and interesting community…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 M2.

Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The 1.0 M2 release fixes several bugs and introduces a few new features.

• Support for Postgres, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, and HSQLDB databases.
• Improved support for upgrading applications that use an HTTP location for the resource definition.
• LRU cache used to manage disk space for HTTP and Maven based resources that are downloaded.
• HTTP based resources are always downloaded, never cached.
• Use updated CF Deployer library with an HTTP based health check.
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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security OAuth 2.2.1.RELEASE.

The 2.2.1.RELEASE is a maintenance release that includes bug fixes and minor improvements.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 4 (M4) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

This update is primarily for interoperability with Spring Boot 2.0.0.M6.

The following modules were updated as part of Finchley.M4:

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we'll look at the Spring Boot build plugin, "fat" .jars, executable .jars, and "thin" .jars.