Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Malaysia and then Singapore where I'll spend time with customers in the financial services world and speak at the Singapore Spring User Group on June 8th. If you're around, come out or say hi!

• Spring IO Platform lead and Spring Boot ninja Andy Wilkinson just announced the Gradle Dependency management plugin 1.0.3
• Spring web guru has just announced Spring Web Flow 2.4.5
• the Baeldung blog has a nice look at Spring Boot and Kotlin
• Ranga Karanam put together a nice look at building web applications with Spring Boot
• I liked this blog offering tips and tricks for using the compile-time annotation processor Lombok in production application. Lombok is not a Spring project, obviously, but it's easy to use with Spring and it's available on the Spring Initializr [as a dependency].
• I reallly enjoyed some of the replies in the Quora post …

A minor maintenance release version 2.4.5 for Spring Web Flow is now available for use.

The release includes an important security fix for vulnerability report CVE-2017-4971. Please review the report details and upgrade.

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Chicago for the epic Spring Days Chicago and then I'm off to Singapore for VOXXED Singapore. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja has just announced the new Spring Security OAuth 2.1.1 and 2.0.4
• Spring Cloud Data Flow engineer Gunnar Hillert just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.1
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Dalston SR1
• I liked Jonas Hecht's post looking at how to run Spring Boot on Docker Windows
• I loved this post from RedHat engineer Sébastien Blanc on using Keycloak, their OAuth-aware identity provider, with Spring Boot applications. Keycloak is also supported on the Spring Initializr.
• The Docker blog also has a nice post by Sophia Parafina on …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Amsterdam, NL and Essen, DE, talking to customers about cloud-native transformation. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced a preview of Concourse Pipeline and Cloud Foundry manifest editing support releases as a language server. These language servers can be used by any IDE or text editor that supports them, including in this case Microsoft's Visual Studio Code and later STS itself.
• Spring Cloud Stream ninja Soby Chako just announced Spring Cloud Stream.SR2
• Simon Baslé just announced the Reactor Bismuth release train M1
• Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 2.0M1! It's finally here! Get the bits of the first major release towards a reactive Spring Boot 2.0. There's so much good stuff…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Munich for the Spring Meetup; Berlin for OSDC; Krakow for Geecon; Barcelona for Spring I/O, and Eindhoven for NextBuild. If you're around, say hi.

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

• Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2GA!, including the server editions for local, Kubernetes, YARN and Cloud Foundry. This new release is packed with good stuff. I particularly like the support for composed tasks, which lets me orchestrate a flow of tasks as a cohesive unit-of-work. This is ideal for…

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.1.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a handful of bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs users.

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Introduction

It has been almost 10 years now since I taught my first Core Spring class. At that time almost everything was XML and configuring JPA or Spring Security, for example, could be a lot of hard work. Spring has matured a great deal in the meantime with component-scanning, Java Configuration and Spring Boot making it much more fun to use. And the number of Spring Projects has increased considerably.

Pivotal Training continues to enhance our Spring curriculum and introduce new courses - including Spring Boot Developer and Spring Cloud Services. I have provided an overview of these…

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…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Perth, Australia, for the amazing YOW! West conference, talking to developers about building cloud native Java applications. If you're around, say hi. As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

I'm super excited about our first Spring Days event, on May 30-31, in Chicago. I'll be there along with other Spring gurus like Eddu Melendez, Anupama Pradhan, and Michael Minella. I hope you'll join us!

• Spring IO lead Any Wilkinson has announced Spring IO Platform Athens-SR5. He also announced Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR2
• Spring Session lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Session 1.3.1
• Spring Integration lead and all around great human Gary Russell just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0M1
• Spring Cloud ninja Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0
• I loved (in case you were unclear about the sentiment I have for this post!) this look at real time sentiment analysis with TensorFlow and Spring Cloud Data Flow
• the results of this months' ZeroTurnaround web framework report are not too surprising: Spring MVC is in a distant lead, then JSF and GWT, then Spring Boot…