This Week in Spring - October 31st, 2017
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco for the first, and sure-to-be-amazing, Kotlin Conf 2017. I'll be talking about Spring Boot and Kotlin, and I hope you'll join me if you're around.
We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!
- Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0.0.M5 which includes, among other things, an
ItemProcessor
implementation that supports Java 8Function
implementations, updated documentation and much more. - Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller announced Spring Framework 5.0.1 which includes a few bug fixes which in turn pick up fixes in Reactor Netty and welcome performance improvements in AspectJ 1.8.12.
- Last week, in another installment of Spring Tips, I looked at HTTP based contracts with Spring Cloud Contract.
- Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb announced the first release candidate to Spring Cloud Edgware. There are some changes to not in the artifact names for various starters. Spring Cloud Edgware has a lot of new features…