Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Marikesh, Morocco for the epic Devoxx MA talking about all things Spring and cloud with my friends - Google's Ray Tsang and Microsoft's Bruno Borges. Then, tomorrow it's off to Bern and Zurich Switzerland [for the local JUGs there. Tonight, in about 15 minutes, I'm doing a live training on Safari - "Bootiful Kotlin," too.

As usual, we've got a ton of things to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Framework 5.1.3, 5.0.11 and 4.3.21 available now
• Spring Cloud Greenwich.M3 is available
• Join individuals like you who donated more than $70K over the past year to help support 350+ community-driven, Open Source software projects developed at the all-volunteer Apache Software Foundation.
• Wondering what affects availability in Pivotal CF? Denise Yu and Josh McKenty explain in this comic
• The Neo4j team are happy to announce the first release of the Neo4j and Apache Kafka integration.
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch has just previewed typesafe Kotlin queries for Spring Data MongoDB
• Check out Okta developer advocate Matt Raible's epic post, …

Hi Spring fans! How's things? I'm in Taipei, Taiwan, where I've presented at the local JUG and at the Cloud Native Forum. It's been a crazy good time on the ground eating delicious "stinky tofu" (that's its name!), trying to figure out the difference between traditional Chinese characters and so-called simplified Chinese characters used in China, and of course making tons of new friends.

In less than 24h I'll be on a plane winging my way back west where I'll join my family, and our newest addition, and our friends, and we'll celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday together. It's this time of year when I try to take stock of all the things for which I'm grateful and you know what, dear reader? Time and time again, I think of you, the community that makes Spring the best place to integrate and innovate. I am thankful for you. I'm sure I speak for the Spring team and Pivotal at large when I say, we…

We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate of the Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.RC2.

Individual modules of Spring Cloud Function 2.0.0.RC2 are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

As a follow up to 2.0.0.RC1, this release primarily encompasses minor enhancements and bug fixes. As it stands now this should be the final Release Candidate before General Availability release 2.0.0.RELEASE in several weeks.

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 questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-cloud-function tag…

We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate of the Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown release train - Fishtown.RC2/2.1.0.RC2.

Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown 2.1.0.RC2 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

As a follow up to 2.0.0.RC2, this release primarily encompasses minor enhancements and bug fixes. As it stands now this should be the final Release Candidate before General Availability release 2.0.0.RELEASE in several weeks.

NOTE:

If the applications are created from Spring Initializr, they need to add this BOM snippet in maven dependency management before the…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just flown from Singapore and arrived in Hong Kong where I'll be meeting with some of our bigger customers here for a few days. Then, it's off to Taipei where, among other things, I'll be presenting at the Taipei JUG and talking to some customers. If you're in any of these places, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi (@starbuxman)!

With that, we've got a ton to get to so let's get to it!

• Need 24x7 ETL? Then Move to Cloud Native File Ingest with Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Spring Boot in a Container
• I love this list of resources related to RSocket from my friend Jacky at Alibaba
• Check out this new feature in Kotlin 1.3: enable progressive mode of the compiler (-progressive option) for a fast-track way to get fixes for compiler issues that affect language semantics
• JHipster v5.7.0 released!
• The Spring Boot Admin's Johannes Edmeier has just announced that Spring Boot Admin 2.1.1, with an important bugfix, has been released
• The Spring Cloud Greenwich release schedule has changed slightly. This week we will release M2, then RC1 will be Dec 6th, and finally RELEASE will be Dec 20th. As always, see the milestones in spring-cloud-release…

Many people are using containers to wrap their Spring Boot applications, and building containers is not a simple thing to do. This is an article for developers of Spring Boot applications, and containers are not always a good abstraction for developers - they force you to learn about and think about very low level concerns - but you will on occasion be called on to create or use a container, so it pays to understand the building blocks. Here we aim to show you some of the choices you can make if you are faced with the prospect of needing to create your own container.

We will assume that you know how to create and build a basic Spring Boot application. If you don’t, go to one of the Getting Started Guides, for example the one on building a REST Service. Copy the code from there and practise with some of the ideas below. There is also a Getting Started Guide on Docker…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I'm in Tokyo, Japan, for the epic SpringOne Tour Japan event and then, it's off to Seoul, South Korea and then Singapore. I'm trying to keep busy! I delivered two 3+ hour long talks yesterday despite a blistering fever and today I presented at the SpringOne Tour and then, tonight, I had the honor of presenting at a joint meeting of the JJUG and JSUG here in Tokyo on Tuesday evening (starting about 7h ago).

If you're about, don't hesitate to say hi! I'd love to chat about anything and everything Pivotal and Spring with ya! Anyway, we've got a ton to get…

I’m pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring CredHub 2.0.0, available now in the Spring milestone repository.

CredHub

CredHub provides centralized credential management to the Cloud Foundry platform. CredHub implements an HTTP API to securely store, generate, retrieve, and delete credentials of various types.

Spring CredHub provides a Java binding for the CredHub API, making it easy to integrate Spring applications with CredHub.

What’s New

The 2.0.0 release brings support for CredHub server versions 1.x and 2.x, and the CredHub v1 and v2 APIs. This release also provides…

Californium Update

On behalf of the Reactor team, I am pleased to announce that Californium-SR2 release train is available now.

This maintenance release of the Californium line includes the following dependencies updates:

• Reactor-Core 3.2.2 | Release Notes | Repository
• Reactor-Netty 0.8.2 | Release Notes | Repository

Bismuth Update

We also have shipped Bismuth-SR13. This maintenance release of the Bismuth line includes the following dependencies updates:

• Reactor-Core 3.1.11 | Release Notes | Repository
• Reactor-Netty 0.7.11 | Release Notes | Repository

Thanks a lot to our contributors, and…