I am happy to announce the 3.9.1 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Oxygen.1a release (https://www.eclipse.org/oxygen/noteworthy/)
• includes support for JDK9 and JUnit 5 (https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.7.1a/)
• updated Spring Cloud CLI integration (switch to on-demand install)
• experimental boot dashboard extension to inspect beans of running boot apps
• refactoring support to convert application.properties to application.yml
• a number of important bug fixes (organize imports shortcut is back, for example)

To download the distributions, please go visit: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.1 New & Noteworthy…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at the bootiful possibilities of integrating Spring Boot and Spring WebFlux, the reactive web runtime and framework in Spring Framework 5, with Scala and the Scala ecosystem and integrating the Spring WebFlux reacive runtime with other Reactive Streams implementations like Akka Streams.

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 2.0.0.M5. This release brings a Redis ReactiveSessionRepository implementation. The webflux sample has been updated to demonstrate its use.

You can find the complete details of the release in the changelog

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! By happy coincidence, today is also Ada Lovelace day. According to the Finding Ada site: Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM. Happy Ada Lovelace day!

I've just returned from the epic ByteMyCode conference in Wroclaw, Poland, and am now in Seattle, Washington to talk to customers and to [hold an open event today at Pivotal Seattle on Cloud Native Java. Later today I'm off to Toronto, Canada to visit customers and appear at the SpringOne Platform Preview show…

The JAX Innovation awards just took place. The Spring team has been a recipient of the award in a few cases over the years (and a nominee in even more cases), but this year was exceptional.

This year, the jury awarded Spring co-founder and lead engineer Juergen Hoeller (or Jürgen Höller, in his native (Austrian) German language) the Special Jury Award.

We don't normally talk about individuals on this blog, but few can be said to have done so much towards making Spring - and all that has come as a result of it - so successful as Juergen Hoeller has, and does.

The JAX Innovation Awards…

Greetings Spring Community!

I am pleased to announce the second milestone of both Spring Session Data Geode for Apache Geode and Spring Session Data GemFire for Pivotal GemFire.

The 2nd milestone release brings many welcome improvements, including:

• Upgrades to Spring Framework 5.0.0.RELEASE.

• Upgrades to Spring Data Kay-RELEASE.

• Upgrades to Spring Session 2.0.0.M4.

• Upgrades to Spring Boot 2.0.0.M4.

• Adds support for Pivotal GemFire and Apache Geode PDX Serialization.

• Introduces a new Serialization framework and adapter for Pivotal GemFire/Apache Geode’s Data Serialization and PDX frameworks.

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We are pleased to announce the general availability release of the Spring Cloud Stream Ditmars release train.

Spring Cloud Stream Ditmars.RELEASE is available for use in the Spring Release repository. The release notes include relevant information about version compatibility with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring AMQP, and Spring for Apache Kafka.

The following sections list new features included in this release.

Apache Kafka

Kafka Streams for Apache Kafka

Spring Cloud Stream automates discovery and auto-configuration, and it provides a simple approach to facilitating the interactivity between…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at the reactive programming support in Spring Security 5.0. We'll look at it in terms of its integration with Spring WebFlux, the reactive web runtime and framework in Spring Framework 5.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This last week's been nuts! So much good stuff on offer. Spring Framework 5.0 is now available! And with Spring Framework 5.0 comes a deluge of releases, all of which you'll see in this post. Also, this week I - and others from the Pivotal and Spring teams - are at JavaOne and I hope you'll come find us and say hi at our booth or the various talks.

• Last week I looked at using Spring Framework 5's support for building reactive websocket-based applications.
• Spring AMQP and Spring Integration lead Gary Russell has just announced Spring AMQP 2.0.RC2.
• At long last, Spring Framework 5.0.GA is here! The new release integrates with Project Reactor, includes a reactive web runtime, Kotlin extensions, and baselines on Java EE 7 and Java 8. The new release has entirely too many new things to hope to capture here so check out the release blog and then check out the What's New post
• Spring and Reactor ninja Simon Baslé just announced the Reactor Bismuth release…