What’s New?

For those who are already familiar with Spring Integration, this chapter provides a brief overview of the new features of version 5.4.

If you are interested in the changes and features that were introduced in earlier versions, see the Change History.

What’s New in Spring Integration 5.4?

If you are interested in more details, see the Issue Tracker tickets that were resolved as part of the 5.4 development process.

New Components

Apache Kafka Channel Adapters

The standalone Spring Integration Kafka project has been merged as a spring-integration-kafka module to this project. See Spring for Apache Kafka Support for more information.

R2DBC Channel Adapters

The Channel Adapters for R2DBC database interaction have been introduced. See R2DBC Support for more information.

Redis Stream Support

The Channel Adapters for Redis Stream support have been introduced. See Redis Stream Outbound Channel Adapter for more information.

General Changes

The one-way messaging gateway (the void method return type) now sets a nullChannel explicitly into the replyChannel header to ignore any possible downstream replies. See Setting the Default Reply Channel for more information.