The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 1.6 M2. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Here are the highlights

• Task Scheduling on PCF

• Angluar 6 update

• App Hosting Tool

Task Scheduling on PCF

We are happy to introduce the native integration of PCF Scheduler in the SCDF for Cloud Foundry implementation!

A typical workflow for batch data processing involves scheduling batch applications. For example, the scheduler system accepts a cron expression and launches the application whenever the expression matches the…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.SR1 release train. This is the first maintenance release on the Elmhurst line and includes several bug fixes and minor enhancements in core Spring Cloud Stream (2.0.1.RELEASE), Kafka binder (2.0.1.RELEASE), and the Rabbit binder (2.0.1.RELEASE). Please take a look at the release notes for more details. The release can be found in maven central. Detailed descriptions can be found in the reference documentation.

We thank all our community members who contributed valuable additions to this release.

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either in GitHub, on Stack Overflow, on Gitter or on Twitter…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny (warm!) Los Angeles for the epic SpringOne Tour Los Angeles event and then it's off to Boston for meetings. We've got a lot to cover, as usual, so let's get to it!

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.2 is out and it has smarter metrics support
• Do you want to begin in open-source or, at least, begin contributing to Spring Boot? We have a ton of open-issues where we'd welcome external contributions!
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.6 M1 and 1.5.2 released
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.5 released
• Follow the progress on Graal supporting Spring Boot-based applications for native images
• Spring Social End of Life Announcement
• I love this post that looks at how e-Bay does faster integration testing of Spring Boot-based applications
• Check out the migration to v2 in Zipkin 2.10.
• This is an oldie-but-a-goodie that I found myself needing today: it looks at …

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the 1.6 M1 release and 1.5.2 release.

For 1.6 M1, follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

For 1.5.2, follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Areas of improvement for 1.6 M1:

• DSL and deployment property parsing

• Task Execution status

• Composed Task Runner security

• Dashboard

• Kubernetes deployments

DSL and deployment property parsing

Launching Tasks with custom arguments is a great approach to influence the Task application with differing behaviors…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.5 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Photon release, including support for JDK 9/10, performance improvements, and more.
• Pivotal tc Server updated to 4.0.1
• various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

STS 3.9.6 is scheduled to be released on top of Eclipse 2018-09 in late September 2018.

Enjoy!

Today it is with an optimistic look to the future that I am announcing the end of life for Spring Social, a project that I have had the pleasure to work with over the past eight years.

With the release of Spring Security 5, much of the functionality offered by Spring Social’s connection framework—which I consider the most valuable piece of Spring Social—is now part of Spring Security. In fact, I shared how to use Spring Security’s new support for client-side OAuth2 in a blog article from back in March. And as Spring Security continues to evolve its client-side OAuth support, Spring Social’s…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm fresh of the amazing Spring Connect São Paulo event and speaking with some customers, and now I'm in beautiful Rio de Janeiro soaking up the winter rays by he beach, connecting with people in the community, and delivering a (virtual!) 2 day live training course for O'Reilly on building cloud-native Java-based applications. In less than two days I'll be home for the first time in almost a month to celebrate the 4th of July. If you're in America, let me be the first to wish you a happy holiday. As usual, we've…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.2.3.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. This release adds the ability to retrieve the last TaskExecution for a specific task. A special thanks to Gunnar Hillert for the contributions around this issue. And additional thanks to Ilayaperumal Gopinathan for helping out with the project.

Spring Cloud Task Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

We look forward to your feedback in Github, StackOverflow, to me directly via Twitter @cppwfs

We’re pleased to announce that the 2.0.0 release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker is now generally available. Spring Cloud Open Service Broker is a framework for building Spring Boot applications that implement the Open Service Broker API.

The Open Service Broker API project allows developers to deliver services to applications running within cloud native platforms such as Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and OpenShift. Spring Cloud Open Service Broker provides a framework based on Spring Boot that enables you to quickly create a service broker for your own managed service on platform that…