On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the fifth service release of the Kay release train in prospect of Spring Boot 2.0 GA.

This service release ships with 23 tickets fixed. Kay SR5 will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.0 GA for your convenience and is a strongly recommended upgrade to users of the Kay release train.

You can find all details within the linked changelogs.

• Spring Data Commons 2.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 2.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 3.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 2.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 2.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'm pleased to announce the fourth service release of the Kay release train in prospect of Spring Boot 2.0 RC2.

This service release ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.0.4 and Project Reactor 3.1.4, and provides the answer to persistence the code and everything. Kay SR4 will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.0 RC2 for your convenience and is a recommended upgrade to users of the Kay release train.

You can find all details within the linked changelogs.

• Spring Data Commons 2.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 2.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 3.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 2.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 2.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Vault 2.0. Since the first efforts for Spring Vault 2.0, it has been a 10 months ride until we reached this GA release. These are the most significant changes in Spring Vault 2.0:

• Upgrade to Java 8 and Spring Framework 5.
• Reactive Support.
• Improved null-safety by providing JSR-305 annotated API.
• Vault repository support through Spring Data KeyValue repositories.
• Kubernetes, AWS ECS/IAM authentication.
• RoleId/SecretId unwrapping for AppId authentication.
• Spring Security integration with VaultBytesEncryptor and VaultRandomBytesKeyGenerator.
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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the Ingalls SR10 and Kay SR3 service releases. The Ingalls service release ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 4.3.14 and in preparation of the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.10 release. The Kay service release picks up Spring Framework 5.0.3 in and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.0 RC1 for your convenience.

Both releases ship with 105 tickets fixed in total and are recommended upgrades to all users of the Ingalls and Kay release trains. You can find all details within the linked changelogs.

Spring Data Ingalls SR10

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.10 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.10 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.10 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.10 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.10 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.10 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.10 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.10 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

In this article, we will dive in how to bind a Spring application to HashiCorp’s Vault service broker on Cloud Foundry.

Spring Boot provides a lot of autoconfiguration and external binding features, some of which are relevant to Cloud Foundry, and many of which are not. Spring Cloud Connectors is a library that you can use in your application if you want to create your own components programmatically, but it doesn’t do anything “magical” by itself.

Spring Cloud Connectors lays the foundation for connectors that integrate with various Cloud services. It has ships components that allow correct…

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 community, I’m pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Vault 1.1.0 and the third milestone of Spring Vault 2.0, available from Maven Cental respective the milestone repository.

Highlights of Spring Vault 1.1 GA release are:

• Pull-mode support for AppRole authentication.

• Vault login using via AWS IAM.

• Support of batch transit operations.

• Rotation of generic secrets based on their lease duration.

• Introduction of VaultEndpointProvider to configure endpoints dynamically.

Looking at Spring Vault 2.0 M3 you will find the following enhancements:

• Vault repositories via @EnableVaultRepositories built on top of Spring Data KeyValue.

• Support to create and modify Vault’s policies represented as JSON.

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On behalf of the community, I would like to announce Spring Vault 1.1.0 RC, available from the milestone repository.

Since the previous milestone, these features have made it into the release candidate:

• Pull-mode support for AppRole authentication

• New styling of the HTML reference documentation

Contributions

Without the community, we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

For a complete list of changes see the changelog.

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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of Ingalls SR7 and Kay RC3 releases. Ingalls SR7 ships with over 40 issues fixed and Kay RC3 with exactly 90 issues fixed. Both are recommended upgrades for all users. Kay RC3 is the final release candidate before our GA at the end of September, i.e. in case you haven't already, it's the perfect time to give the new major version a test run.

For your convenience the service release is going to be picked up in the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.7 release and Kay RC3 will be part of Spring Boot 2.0 M4.

You can find the complete list of issues fixed here for Ingalls SR7 and here for Kay RC3…

On behalf of the community, I would like to announce two new Spring Vault milestones: 1.1.0 M1 and 2.0.0 M2. Release 1.1.0 M1 ships with 24 tickets completed and 2.0.0 M2 with 7 resolved tickets and are available from the milestone repository.

Since the previous releases, these features have made it into the current milestones:

• Vault login using via AWS IAM

• Rotation of generic secrets based on their lease duration

• Introduction of VaultEndpointProvider to configure endpoints dynamically

additionally, 2.0.0 M2 ships with:

• Authentication DSL to declare authentication flows

• Reactive support based on Spring Framework 5 WebClient and Project Reactor

• Enhanced tooling support by adding @NonNullApi and @Nullable annotations to be picked up by your favorite IDE

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