We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2 offers the following features:

• Upgrade to Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 and Spring Boot 1.5.2 - This release is compatible with the Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 release.

• Fixed invalid data type bug in Oracle Script.

• Fixed bug in MySQL migration scripts so that they will work on file systems that are case sensitive.

• Updated Spring Cloud Task samples to use Spring Boot 1.5.2.

• Updated documentation to discuss unit testing and notes on using Transaction Managers.

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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce Spring Vault 1.0 RC1.

The artifacts are available in the Milestone repo.

Spring Vault includes 15 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Here’s a short-list of the most important features shipping with the release:

• Support for renewable @VaultPropertySource with credentials rotation
• Reshaping APIs dropping VaultClient and using RestTemplate instead
• Added EnvironmentVaultConfiguration for simplified configuration without the need to create a derived configuration class.

Contributions

Without the community, we couldn’t be the…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea.RC1. Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea.RC1 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository, and a detailed description of its features can be found in the reference documentation. For information about artifacts and a complete list of changes, please consult the release notes.

What is new?

Here’s a summary of the major new features and improvements brought by the new release:

Dispatching capabilities added to StreamListener

We’ve added support for dispatching messages to multiple @StreamListener methods…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! in this installment, we'll look at the reactive WebClient and WebTestClient in Spring Web Flux, the reactive web stack in Spring framework 5, due this summer.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago on business and preparing for next week, where I'll be at the first Devoxx US event, ever!. I hope to see you there!

• last week, I continued the Spring Tips series with a look at how to implement server-sent events using classic Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux in Spring Framework 5, due this summer
• Last week, Pivotal and Google announced Kubo, the ability to run and manage Kubernetes, on top of BOSH, alongside Cloud Foundry. This means that it's now possible to get support for both Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes deployments, supporting cloud native applications and low-level container orchestration equally.
• Spring I/O Platform lead Andy Wilkinson announced Spring I/O Platform Brussels SR1 and …

Speaker: Michael Plöd, InnoQ

This talk will focus on one of the most precious parts of Domain Driven Design, the concept of Strategic Design, as well as Bounded Context, the Context Map and the patterns that are being documented in the Context Map.

An explanation of these principles as well as practical usage scenarios such as migrating a monolithic landscape to microservices is planned for discussion. And, using a hands-on approach, we will demonstrate the concepts surrounding Strategic Design with an application landscape of various Spring Boot Applications

Register now! North America…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 6 of the Spring Cloud Camden Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central. The documentation can be found here.

NOTE: There was an upstream fix in Spring Cloud Streams that fixes issues with Spring Cloud Bus, Hystrix, and Turbine. See this issue for more information.

The following modules were updated as part of Camden.SR6:

• Spring Cloud Commons 1.1.8.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Stream Brooklyn.SR3
• Spring Cloud Bus 1.2.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Config 1.2.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.2.6.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Consul 1.1.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Zookeeper 1.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.1.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Contract 1.0.4.RELEASE
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I am pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 1.0.1.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, Bintray, and the Gradle Plugin Portal. This maintenance release fixes a handful of issues and is a recommended upgrade for all users of the plugin.

On behalf of the Spring Integration community I’d like to announce the first Milestone of Spring Integration Extension for Amazon Web Services version 1.1. Its artifact is spring-integration-aws.1.1.0.M1, which is available in the Milestone Repository.

Of course, first of all, big thanks to you, the community, for your contributions!

Some highlights of the features included to this Milestone:

Kinesis Support

The KinesisMessageDrivenChannelAdapter and KinesisMessageHandler are provided to integrate with the Amazon Kinesis. The former is pretty simple and allow to emit data into a Kinesis stream. All the information for the target PutRecordRequest can be determined from the request Message…