It's my pleasure to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-RELEASE is available now from the Spring release repository and Maven Central. The Brussels release introduces the following projects to the Platform: Spring Kafka 1.1 The Brussels release also upgrades the versions of a number of projects: Spring AMQP 1.7 Spring Boot 1.5 Spring Data Ingalls Spring Integration Java DSL 1.2 Spring Integration Kafka 2.1 Spring LDAP 2.3 Spring Security 4.2 Spring Session 1.3 Spring Web Services 2.4 The versions of numerous third-party dependencies have also been updated. Project Page | GitHub | Issues…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-RC1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. The Brussels release introduces the following projects to the Platform: Spring Kafka 1.1 The Brussels release also upgrades the versions of a number of projects: Spring AMQP 1.7 Spring Boot 1.5 Spring Data Ingalls Spring Integration Java DSL 1.2 Spring Integration Kafka 2.1 Spring LDAP 2.3 Spring Security 4.2 Spring Session 1.3 Spring Web Services 2.4 The versions of numerous third-party dependencies have also been updated. Please take RC1 for a spin and let us know if you…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-SR3 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 1.6.7 Spring Boot 1.4.4 Spring Data Hopper SR7 Spring Framework 4.3.6 Spring Integration 4.3.7 The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

On behalf of the Spring Boot team, and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes. What's new in 1.5 Apache Kafka Support Spring Boot 1.5 includes auto-configuration support for Apache Kafka via the spring-kafka project. To use Kafka simply include the spring-kafka dependency and configure the appropriate…

It's my pleasure to announce that 1.0.0.RELEASE of the Dependency Management Plugin has been released. It's available from Gradle's Plugin Portal as well as Maven Central and Bintray. Thank you to everyone who tried out the release candidates. What's new? To learn about what's new in 1.0, please read the post announcing 1.0.0.RC1. Thank you Thank you for all of the feedback and suggestions that you have contributed to the plugin thus far. Please let us know on GitHub or Gitter about any problems you find or improvements that you'd like to see.

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-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 1.6.6.RELEASE Spring Boot 1.4.3.RELEASE Spring Data Hopper SR6 Spring Framework 4.3.5.RELEASE Spring Integration 4.3.6.RELEASE Spring Retry 1.1.5.RELEASE Spring Security 4.1.4.RELEASE The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

It's my pleasure to announce that 1.0.0.RC1 of the Dependency Management Plugin has been released. It's available from Gradle's Plugin Portal as well as Maven Central and Bintray. What's new? The plugin's been rewritten in Java and its API has been formalised. A clear separation between that API and the plugin's internals has been introduced. This has required a few breaking changes but you are unlikely to be affected if you were using the Groovy DSL. Converting to Java and formalising the API has also enabled a couple of enhancements: ### Official support for Gradle 3 Previously, the plugin…

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-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 AMQP 1.6.5.RELEASE Spring Boot 1.4.2.RELEASE Spring Data Hopper SR5 Spring Framework 4.3.4.RELEASE Spring Integration 4.3.5.RELEASE Spring Security OAuth 2.0.12.RELEASE 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 2.0.8.RELEASE 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 1.3.8.RELEASE Spring Framework 4.2.8.RELEASE Spring Data Gosling SR5 Spring Security JWT 1.0.5.RELEASE Spring Security OAuth 2.0.11.RELEASE 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 Athens-RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release adopts a new alphabetical versioning scheme similar to those already used by Spring Cloud and Spring Data. The theme for the Platform’s versions is world cities. The Athens release upgrades the versions of several projects: Spring AMQP 1.6 Spring Boot 1.4 Spring Data Hopper Spring Framework 4.3 Spring Integration 4.3 Spring LDAP 2.1 Spring REST Docs 1.1 Spring Security 4.1 Spring Session 1.2 Spring Web Services 2.3 A number of other Spring projects and their…