Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Austin, Texas for OSCON; London, UK, for Devoxx UK; and Nice, France for RivieraDev! If you're around, I'd love to talk to you so don't hesitate to say hi!

• Spring Framework 5 RC1 is now available!
• InfoQ has a nice post on the new Spring Vault release
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP 2.0M4 is now available
• Spring Cloud ninja Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud Camden SR7 has been released
• I liked this short-but-sweet look at the Pivotal Cloud Cache on Pivotal Cloud Foundry, in terms of a Spring Boot application
• Periodic reminder: Spring Cloud Contract helps you solve the problem of integration testing distributed systems- don't sleep on this!
• Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll‏ announced that there is now a starter for Reactive Redis support on the Spring Initializr
• I really enjoyed this discussion of the benefits of self-contained services (as compared to microservices) on InfoQ
• Kamala Dasika has put together a nice look going upstack when applying the 3 Rs of security
• the new Spring Cloud Data Flow page has a very convenient getting-started experience
• Praneeth Ramesh did a nice job introducing Cloud Foundry for developers
• I liked this post by Michael Simons digging into what makes a Spring Boot starter