I am pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 1.0.6.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, Bintray, and the Gradle Plugin Portal. This maintenance release fixes four issues. For Spring Boot users, the new version will be included in the Spring Boot 1.5.15 and 2.0.4 releases. For all other users of the plugin, 1.0.6 is a recommended manual upgrade.

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR11 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform: Spring AMQP 1.7.8 Spring Boot 1.5.14 Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.6 Spring Data Ingalls SR13 Spring Framework 4.3.18 Spring Integration 4.3.17 Spring Security 4.2.7 Spring Session 1.3.3 The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR2 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform: Spring AMQP 2.0.4 Spring Boot 2.0.3 Spring Cloud Connectors 2.0.2 Spring Data Kay SR8 Spring Framework 5.0.7 Spring Integration 5.0.6 Spring Kafka 2.1.7 Spring Security OAuth2 2.2.2 Spring Security 5.0.6 Spring Session Apple SR3 The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR10 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform: Spring Boot 1.5.13 Spring Data Ingalls SR12 Spring Framework 4.3.17 Spring Integration 4.3.16 Spring Security 4.2.6 Spring Security OAuth 2.0.15 The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR1 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform: Spring Boot 2.0.2 Spring Data Kay SR7 Spring Framework 5.0.6 Spring Kafka 2.1.6 Spring Integration 5.0.5 Spring Security 5.0.5 Spring Session Apple SR2 The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the team and community, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.13 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. Spring Boot 1.5.13 includes over 20 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Please note that a number of the upgraded dependencies contain fixes for various security vulnerabilities. Please see this blog post for further details. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If…

On behalf of the team and the community, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.2 is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. Spring Boot 2.0.2 includes over 80 fixes, improvements, and dependency updates. Thanks to everyone that has contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Please note that a number of the upgraded dependencies contain fixes for various security vulnerabilities. Please see this blog post for further details. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general…

I am pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 1.0.5.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, Bintray, and the Gradle Plugin Portal. This maintenance release fixes a handful of issues. It was included in the recent Spring Boot 1.5.12 and 2.0.1 releases and is also a recommended upgrade for all other users of the plugin.

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR9 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform: Spring Boot 1.5.12 Spring Framework 4.3.16 Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Maintenance of the Spring IO Platform will end twelve months from today, 9 April 2019, and the project will be moved to the attic. Maintenance releases of both the Brussels and Cairo lines will continue to be published up until that time. When the Platform was first introduced almost four years ago it provided dependency management for a number of projects that were not managed by Spring Boot. In recent releases that number has decreased and would have continued to do so in the future as the Spring portfolio continues to evolve. The decreasing difference between Spring Boot's dependency…