Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doing? I'm doing all right, all things considered! I miss you all.

OK, so, first things first: we're kicking off #TanzuTuesday today. Join us TODAY at 1pm PST/PDT and I'll introduce you to the wide world of Reactive Spring!

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Kubernetes co-creator Joe Beda - yes, that Joe Beda! Do not miss this!
• Spring Data for Apache Solr Discontinued
• Getting Started With RSocket: Spring Boot Channels
• Spring Boot 2.3.0.M4 available now
• Spring Security 5.3.1, 5.2.3, 5.1.9, 5.0.15, 4.2.15 Released
• In last week's Spring Tips, I look at manipulating the Cloud Foundry PaaS with the Spring Cloud Cloud Foundry Java Client Autoconfiguration
• Anyone interested in Spring Cloud Config with Microprofile? Vote on this issue
• Check out this blog on the future of Spring Data for Solr…

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we're going to take a look at the new Kotlin DSL for Spring Integration. I've covered both Spring Integration and Kotlin in other videos before. I am pretty sure I've also used Spring Integration from within a Kotlin-based Spring application, but this is the first time I've been able to cover a Kotlin DSL specifically for Spring Integration.

Spring Integration has been around for a long time - 13 years at least - and it serves a timeless use case: the integration of disparate systems and services. It's patterned after the seminal tome by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf, Enterprise Integration Patterns. It's a fantastic tome, and I couldn't more enthusiastically recommend it as it serves, after a fashion, as the documentation required for understanding Spring Integration. Spring Integration codifies the…

Reading Time: about 6 minutes. Practice Time: about 20 minutes.

If, like me, you're still at the beginning of your RSocket journey, check out the motivations behind the RSocket protocol. This short but insightful document includes one message that resonates very strongly with me — 'a mismatched abstraction increases the cost of developing a system.'

From a software design point of view, RSocket's four interaction models offer a significant benefit. It means we can model our component-to-component communications using the correct interaction model for each use case. This more productive model…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow cloud native at VMWare (@VMWare) and Kubernetes (@KubernetesIO) co-creator Joe Beda (@jbeda)

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the fourth milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 99 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Support for liveness and readiness probes.
• Improved support for building OCI images.
• Improved support for building layered jars, including customization when using Gradle.

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.1 (release notes), 5.2.3 (release notes), 5.1.9 (release notes) , 5.0.15 (release notes), 4.2.15 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra-meaty installment of This Week in Spring! This week, we've got a ton of stuff to look at so I won't belabor it!

• Tomorrow, the 1st of April, marks the 6 year anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0 going GA! Happy birthday my old friend!

• Spring Data Neumann goes RC1

• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.2.6.RELEASE Available

• @DynamicPropertySource in Spring Framework 5.2.5 and Spring Boot 2.2.6

• In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Apache Groovy, Testcontainers, and Reactor committer Sergei Egorov

• Spring Boot 2.2.6 available now

• Liveness and Readiness Probes with Spring Boot

• Spring Data Moore SR6 available now

• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at Spring Cloud Loadbalancer

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tip! In this installment, we look at something near and dear to my heart (and my @author tag!) - the Cloud Foundry Java client auto-configuration.

What is Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is an open-source PaaS. It has a lot of flexibility. I'm in love with it if I'm honest. It's simple. I love things like it that give me flexibility without requiring too many sacrifices at the altar of the YAML deity. It's an opinionated platform as a service. You give the platform an application, and it deploys them. You upload a spring boot app, and it figures out that the app is a standalone, self-contained, so-called "fat" .jar and it downloads the required JDK, configures the necessary amount of memory and then creates a filesystem with your…

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 4.2.2 and 4.1.4 with bug fixes and documentation updates. Please find the complete list of changes in the release notes: 4.2.2 and 4.1.4.

As we announced earlier, version 4.1.4 is the last release of the 4.1 line. Please upgrade to version 4.2.2 at your earliest convenience as this is the primary active branch for the moment and which will be supported until the end of 2020.

The next feature release will be 4.3, with a GA planned for October 2020, aligned with Spring Framework 5.3 and Spring Boot 2.4. This release is expected to be the last…