On behalf of everyone who contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.0.RELEASE has been released. It is available fromMaven Central, JCenter and our release repository. What's new? A complete overview of what's new in 1.2 can be found in the release notes. The following are some of the highlights. Improved Asciidoctor integration REST Docs now has a new module, spring-restdocs-asciidoctor, that makes it easier to use the generated snippets in your documentation. A new macro means that you can import multiple snippets for the same operation in a single line. This update…

One of the main themes of Spring Boot 2.0 M1 is a range of significant improvements to its Gradle plugin. Many of those improvements have just been merged and are available in the latest Spring Boot snapshots. There's a few weeks until Spring Boot 2.0.0.M1 will be released at the beginning of May and we'd love to hear your early feedback on the new plugin before then. You can read more about the plugin's capabilities in its reference and API documentation. Trying the new plugin The new plugin requires Gradle 3.4 or later. Like the rest of Spring Boot, snapshots are published to https://repo…

On behalf of everyone who contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.0.RC1 has been released and is available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone/. What's new? A complete overview of what's new in 1.2 can be found in the release notes. The following are some of the highlights. Improved Asciidoctor integration REST Docs now has a new module, spring-restdocs-asciidoctor, that makes it easier to use the generated snippets in your documentation. A new macro means that you can import multiple snippets for the same operation in a single line. This update to the samples…

I am pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 1.0.1.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, Bintray, and the Gradle Plugin Portal. This maintenance release fixes a handful of issues and is a recommended upgrade for all users of the plugin.

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-SR4 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 1.6.8 Spring Boot 1.4.5 Spring Data Hopper SR8 Spring Framework 4.3.7 Spring Integration 4.3.8 Spring Security OAuth 2.0.13 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-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 1.7.1 Spring Boot 1.5.2 Spring Data Ingalls SR1 Spring Framework 4.3.7 Spring Integration 4.3.8 Spring Kafka 1.1.3 Spring Security 4.2.2 Spring Security OAuth 2.0.13 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 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…