Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the epic Devoxx event. I was in Singapore for Devoxx Belgium 2018, and so I missed this event. I am so happy to be here this year.

I finished a "deep dive" session this morning with an amazing crowd of people who hung out with me for 3 hours to talk about Reactive Spring. I've got two more one-hour talks on Thursday, "Bootiful Testing," and "Bootiful Kotlin." I'm so looking forward to seeing everyone for those talks as well.

We've got a ton of things to get to this week so let's!

• Azure Spring Cloud Is Now In Public Preview
• Spring Data Moore SR1 and Lovelace SR12 released.
• Spring Security 5.2.1 and 5.1.7 Released
• Spring Cloud Stream - Composed Functions or EIP
• Spring Framework 5.2.1 and 5.1.11 available now
• A Bootiful Podcast: Hibernate guru Vlad Mihalcea
• Spring Cloud Stream - Event Routing
• Getting Started With Spring Cloud Stream
• This is a Spring Boot, Hibernate, and MySQL tutorial
• I liked this - and laughed some! - Spring Transaction Management: An unconventional guide
• Spring Boot and Thymeleaf with CSS/JavaScript processing using Gulp
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In preparation for the upcoming releases of Spring Cloud Stream (SCSt) 3.0.0 - Horsham and Spring Cloud Function (SCF) 3.0.0, we’ve been publishing a series of posts discussing and showcasing new features and enhancements. We provided motivation and justification for moving away from the annotation-based programming model to the functional model, and then we provided more details on the functional approach, as well as reactive functions. In another post, which is relevant to what we're going to be discussing here, Artem demonstrated the benefits of combining functional approaches with the …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.2.1 and 5.1.11 are available now.

The first maintenance release of the 5.2 line includes over 35 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.11 includes 7 selected fixes and improvements.

As usual, we'll follow up shortly with corresponding Spring Boot releases (2.2.1 and 2.1.10).

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.2.1 (release notes) and 5.1.7 (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! Today we're excited to announce that Azure Spring Cloud, the runtime for Spring Boot-based applications and Spring Cloud-based microservices jointly developed by Microsoft and Pivotal, is now in public beta. Anybody can try it out now!

As customers have moved their workloads to the cloud, we’ve seen a growth in the use of cloud-native architectures, particularly microservices. Microservice-based architectures help improve scalability and velocity, but implementing them can pose challenges. For many Java developers, Spring Boot and Spring Cloud have helped address these…

Welcome to another post in a series of posts showcasing the new features of Spring Cloud Stream (SCSt). In previous posts (available here, here and here), we tried to provide justification for our shift to a functional programming model in Spring Cloud Stream (SCSt). It is less code and less configuration, and your code remains completely decoupled from the internals of SCSt.

Today, we'll talk about routing with functions. Routing, in the context of SCSt, is the ability to either a) route events to a particular event subscriber or b) route an event produced by an event subscriber to a particular destination. To help more with the context, let's quickly look at how things work in the annotation-based programming model. In this post, we'll refer to it as route 'TO…

Hi Spring fans! in today's episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Vlad Mihalcea (@vlad_mihalcea) about Hibernate, databases, optimizations, and more.

• Vlad on Twitter
• Vlad's blog

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already staring down November? I can't! (We're just two months away from the new year!) This week I'm in Chicago for meetings, and then - finally - I'm off to San Francisco and see the family. Then, it's off to Europe for the Devoxx Ukraine and Devoxx Belgium events. I can't wait to see everyone there!

I'm particularly looking forward to spending Halloween (on the 31st of October) in San Francisco with my kid. The entire family, including the dog, have Halloween costumes. We're ready! (I'm going…

We are pleased to announce the first Release Candidate of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.RC1 (3.0.0.RC1).

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.RC1 (3.0.0.RC1) modules are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Quick highlights:

• Spring Boot 2.2.x
• Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.RC1

Notable features and enhancements for this milestone:

Emphasis on functional programming model

As mentioned in the previous release blogs, with this release we are shifting to a simpler functional programming model.

In the nutshell a simple spring-boot application with at least one function bean is also a spring…