We are pleased to announce the 3.1.0.M2 release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker, which includes some initial support for Open Service Broker API v2.15. Thanks to the community for their significant contributions! This release includes the following fixes and enhancements:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.1.8.RELEASE
• Add maintenance_info field to Service Plan object
• Add maximum_polling_duration field to Service Plan object
• Add plan_updateable field to Service Plan object
• Return HTTP 400 when the required service_id and/or plan_id are missing or incorrect
• Return HTTP 202 when a service broker operation is in progress and an identical request is sent before the previous request completes
• Return JSON arrays instead of JSON objects for certain Service definition metadata
• Add support for custom base path of service broker controllers
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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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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.10 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.1.10 includes 35 fixes and selected improvements.

Next week is going to be quite busy release-wise with Spring Framework 5.2 GA followed by a number of spring projects going GA as well. We'll also have the first release candidate of Spring Boot 2.2, stay tuned!

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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…

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.2.0.M3.

SBDG 1.2.0.M3 continues to be based on the same bits as the 1.2.0.M2 release: primarily:

• Spring Framework 5.2.0.RC2

• Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6

• Spring Data Moore-RC3

• Spring Session Corn-M4

• Spring Test for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (STDG) 0.0.8.RELEASE

The SBDG 1.2.0.M3 bits may be acquired from the Spring Milestone Repository as well as Spring Initializer.

What’s New

We now include support for switching between environments…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.4.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse) major change: quick text search contributed to the Eclipse platform and ships to millions of Eclipse users now
• (Eclipse) improvement: updated to Eclipse 2019-09 release
• (Eclipse) improvement: various improvements to support the dark theme
• (Eclipse) fixed: deadlock during startuo fixed
• (Concourse) improvement: updated to latest changes in Concourse YAML elements and attributes
• various additional bug fixes

To download…

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

On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 4.2.0.RC1. We have been working on some performance improvements in the core framework, and this post highlights the major changes.

Major Performance Improvements

We have made some performance improvements, including:

• Enhanced Step Partitioning
• Improved Job Stop
• Faster Writes with the JpaItemWriter
• Optimized Bean Mapping with the BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper

Enhanced Step Partitioning

Starting a partitioned step is an area where the framework wasn't well optimized. In this version, we have dug deep into…