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…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring - and what a week it is! I'm at the epic annual eventapalooza that is Oracle CodeOne (formerly JavaOne). I just finished a talk today on reactive programming and I'll have another talk on Kotlin on Wednesday. Don't miss it!

Meanwhile, we've got a ton of things to get to this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.1.RELEASE & 1.2.0.M2 Available!
• If you listen to one podcast this week, listen to this latest and greatest installment of A Bootiful Podcast with Spring Framework co-founder, and lead, Juergen Hoeller on Spring Framework 5.2, open-source, deciding the themes for a new release, his legendary journey as lead of Spring Framework, and more.
• Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR3 Released
• Spring Vault 2.2 M1 available now
• Check out Reactor teammate Simon Basle's talk on RSocket, from the epic JavaZone 2019 event last week
• The Spring Initializr - start dot spring dot io - now supports dark mode…

This post was authored by Vedran Pavić

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session Corn-M4. This release is picked up by Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6.

Spring Session Corn-M4

The Corn-M4 release is based on:

• Spring Session core modules 2.2.0.M4

• Spring Session Data Geode 2.2.0.M4

• Spring Session Data MongoDB 2.2.0.RC2

Some of the highlights of Spring Session 2.2.0.M4 are:

• support for customizing configuration of session repositories using new SessionRepositoryCustomizer/ReactiveSessionRepositoryCustomizer

• support for configuring transactional behavior for JdbcOperationsSessionRepository

• support for Spring Security’s AuthenticatedPrincipal in SpringSessionBackedSessionRegistry

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In response to our nohttp announcement, Maven Central’s announcement, and JFrog’s announcement, beginning January 15 2020, Spring’s Maven Repository will no longer support HTTP. More concretely, http://repo.spring.io will not respond to requests. Users will need to ensure that they are using https://repo.spring.io

We are not going to redirect from http to https because it perpetuates the vulnerability. When the first request is made over http, a man in the middle (MITM) can prevent the redirect and replace the response with a malicious payload. Users that continue to use http will continue to…

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) 1.1.1.RELEASE as well as 1.2.0.M2.

Bits for 1.1.1.RELEASE are available in Maven Central.

Bits for the 1.2.0.M2 release are available in the Spring Milestone Repository.

What’s New

SBDG 1.1.1.RELEASE has been upgraded to Spring Boot 2.1.8.RELEASE while SBDG 1.2.0.M2 has been upgraded to Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6.

Additionally, both 1.2.0.M2 and 1.1.1.RELEASE now support running your Spring Boot, Apache Geode ClientCache applications in Pivotal Platform using Pivotal Cloud Cache (PCC)…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 3 (SR3) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information. All issues closed in this release across all projects can be found in the Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR3 project on GitHub

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

New Load Balancer Implementations

Spring Cloud Greenwich.M3 is the first release containing both blocking and non-blocking load balancer client implementations as an…

On behalf of the community, I’m excited to announce the availability of Spring Vault 2.2 M1. This release ships with over 90 fixed tickets in total, containing several features, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades.

The most notable new changes are:

• Support for PCF-based authentication by using instance identity certificates.

• Kotlin extensions.

• Builders for RestTemplate and WebClient to customize interceptors, filter functions, and default headers.

• Vault namespace support (Vault Enterprise edition only).

• @VaultPropertySource now supports versioned key-value backends.

• Added listener and events support to LifecycleAwareSessionManager.

• Support for the Jetty HTTP Client as an alternative reactive HTTP client.

• Reactive support for AWS IAM authentication.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra-special, extra-long installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this episode, I talk to Spring Framework lead and #2 co-founder of Spring itself, the one, the only, the amazing Juergen Hoeller. We talk about his tenure as the longest and most prolific contributor to Spring; designing clean code; the early days of Spring the project; new features in Spring Framework 5.2; the role of Kotlin, Project Loom, Graal in the Spring ecosystem; Spring's role in the ecosystem; Java's place and possibilities; and so much more.

• Juergen on Twitter
• Spring Framework on Github
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