Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In the US, Monday was a public holiday so today, Tuesday, feels a bit like Monday and i was happily going through the Monday motions and then I got a reminder that I had to write this week's installment! Ooops! Thank goodness for technology.

I'm at San Francisco International Airport about to board a fight for the Washington DC edition of the SpringOne Tour. Are you going to be in Washington DC? Reach out and say hi! My direct messages on Twitter are correct, too

Then, it's off to Kansas City, KS/MO for, among other things, an appearance at the Kansas City JUG this…

It was a lot of fun to talk to Greg Turnquist, one of the more industrious and variously applied members of the Spring family, about how he found his way to the Spring team and community, Python, his new book, Spring team legends like Keith Donald and Brian Dussault, and so much more.

• Twitter: @GregTurn
• Spring team profile page
• Spring guides

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.3 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes over 70 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

If you are still using Spring Boot 2.0.x, an upgrade to Spring Boot 2.1.x is strongly encouraged. Following the announcement that Spring Framework 5.0.x will reach its EOL in March, Spring Boot 2.0.x will follow suit with a final release in the 2.0.x line planned for late March. As previously announced, Spring Boot 1.5.x will…

Introduction

The Spring Cloud Connectors library has been with us since the launch event of Cloud Foundry itself back in 2011. One of the main goals of the connector library and Cloud Foundry’s Java buildpack was to “reduce the initial investment when you want to get started with Cloud Foundry”. The connector library creates the Spring bean definitions required to connect to backing services, like databases, using information contained in the VCAP_SERVICES environment variable. The buildpack then replaces these bean definitions you had in your application with those created by the connector…

On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.4 (changelog). This release provides a round of bug fixes and users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at Gemfire... err.. Apache Geode, the fantastic distributed data grid you've probably never heard of, BUT YOU SHOULD, that integrates nicely with the Spring Data for Apache Geode project.

speaker: Josh Long

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.5 is available now.

This maintenance release includes over 40 fixes and improvements. As usual, we'll follow-up later this week with a maintenance release for Spring Boot 2.1, stay tuned!

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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Lovelace SR5 maintenance release. This release ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 5.1.5. Spring Boot 2.1.3 is going to pick up Lovelace SR5, for your convenience.

The service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and a few dependency upgrades addressing about 40 tickets.

Last but not least, here's the laundry list:

• Spring Data Commons 2.1.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 1.0.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.1.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.1.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.0.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 2.1.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.1.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 2.1.5 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring.

We've got good stuff to get to but first, I want to invite you to be part of the discussion and consider submitting to the SpringOne Platform 2019 event. The call-for-papers opened today!

Now then, we've got a ton to get to this week so without further ado..

• WATCH: Hi Spring fans! In last week's Spring Tips I looked at testing reactive code.
• LISTEN: For last week's installment of The Bootiful Podcast I talked to Dror Weiss about Codota, which aims to bring much smarter code completion to your IDE
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.7.4 and Skipper 1.1.4 Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow and Skipper 2.0 M2 Released
• Notice! The legacy question-and-answer forums will be shutdown February 28! The good news, of course, is that we're still on StackOverflow and we'd love to engage with you there!
• This is a bit meta, but would you like to learn a little more about what it is I (try) to do, in my capacity as the first Spring Developer Advocate at Pivotal? You might enjoy this episode of the Devrel Radio…