It's here it's finally here! My favorite time of the year! Happy SpringOne Platform week! This week I'm in amazing Austin, TX talking to anybody who wants to about all things Spring. There have been a ton of amazing things announced at this show but one thing I've been excited to share with y'all is that we just announced the new Azure Spring Cloud runtime. (More on that in the links below)

I've been busy! I'm doing one talk with Microsoft on Azure Spring Cloud, and another with Okta / Google on simplifying the dev lifecycle. Also, I'm hosting the keynote tomorrow morning. So much to do, so…

Hi Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) interviews Oracle's Geertjan Wielenga (@GeertjanW) about his new book (on developer advocacy) "Developer, Advocate!"

Hello Reactor community,

On behalf of the Reactor team and its heroic new contributors, I am delighted to announce that Reactor Dysprosium can now be found on your preferred Maven repositories, like this one.

It is the fourth release train since Reactor Core 3.x and it includes Reactor Core 3.3, Reactor Netty 0.9 and a newcomer, Reactor Pool 0.1. Check out the major change logs and release notes:

• reactor-core 3.3.0.RELEASE
• reactor-netty 0.9.0.RELEASE
• reactor-pool 0.1.0.RELEASE

Reactor Dysprosium modules still require JDK 8 or higher. They come with many performance improvements and we even…

The 12th Service Release for Californium is out. As per tradition, it fixes several issues and bring improvements all around.

The release is available on your preferred maven central repository.

Change logs and release notes:

• reactor-core 3.2.12.RELEASE
• reactor-netty 0.8.12.RELEASE

Bismuth EOL

With Dysprosium-RELEASE, our reactor-core 3.1.x and reactor-netty 0.7.x lines will not receive further patches. We encourage our users to update to Californium releases trains, which match Spring Boot 2.1.x and Spring Framework 5.1.x.

If you already are using Spring Boot 2.2.x and Spring Framework 5.2.x, you will be required to use Dysprosium including reactor-core 3.3.x and reactor-netty 0.9.x…

Oh emm geee y'all! We just released Spring Framework 5.2, complete with new RSocket support, and a slew of projects have followed suit in the intervening... day! I expect we'll see more soon, followed not too far behind by Spring Boot! And, of course, next week is the biggest week in all of Springdom every week: SpringOne Platform 2019!

I can't wait to get there, but first I'm off to Taipei for the JCCConf. THere's a ton to get to let's dive right in!

• Spring HATEOAS 1.0.0.RELEASE is released!
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.1.0.M2 Released
• Spring Data Lovelace SR11 released
• Spring Framework 5.2 goes GA
• Spring REST Docs 2.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 5.1.10 available now
• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and Jetbrains Developer Advocate Mala Gupta
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.2.0.M3 Released
• How to configure RSocket security in a Spring Boot application with Spring Security - Stack Overflow
• twitter.com
• https://twitter.com/springcentral/status/1178773296839565312
• Reactive programming with Neo4j - Hantsy - Medium
• …

Dear Spring community, we’re proud to announce the general availability of Spring HATEOAS 1.0.0.

Here’s the summary:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.2.0.RELEASE.

• Upgrade to Reactor Dysprosium-RELEASE.

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.10.0.

• Clarify expected behaviour around EntityLinks when using Spring WebFlux.

• Fix i18n support to work in broader scenarios.

• Update documentation to show how to create an ALPS serving controller for profile purposes.

• Fix example in docs to reflect requirement for _prompt for property I18N.

• Update reference docs to reflect new APIs, SPIs, and package structures.

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Hi Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow Java Champion, industry legend, New Delhi JUG leader, author of several books on Java and Java certification, teacher, and @Jetbrains Developer Advocate Mala Gupta (@eMalaGupta) about @Java, learning new features in Java, and more.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, a weekly roundup where I get to swim through the great content in the ecosystem and learn things and hopefully share interesting tidbits with you all. I mark my calendar by the number of This Week in Springs, so imagine my elation to realize looking at the calendar that we're really close to the epic SpringOne Platform 2019! I can't believe it!

The event takes place soon - October 7–10, 2019 - in Austin, Texas. That's just around the corner, but I've still got a few places to get to. I'm in Madrid, Spain, for the epic…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Manning's The Java Module System author Nicolai Parlog (@nipafx) about Java modularity.

• Nicolai Parlog on Twitter: @nipfax
• NIcolai's new book, Manning's The Java Module System