On behalf of the Spring Data team I am happy to announce the fifth service release of Spring Data Hopper. It contains variety of bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all users of this or any previous release train. The overall list of fixed tickets can be found here.

• Spring Data Commons 1.12.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.10.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.1.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.4.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.0.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.8.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.1.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.9.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Getting started with Spring Cloud can be daunting. If you have seen the great Josh Long give his Cloud Native Java presentation, you will notice that you need to create several supporting applications before you can see your application at work.

Spring Cloud CLI Launcher

As part of the transition from Spring XD to Spring Cloud Dataflow, one of the extracted projects is called the Spring Cloud Deployer. The Deployer allows for launching applications on various platforms, including launching on a developer machine.

We wanted to simplify users' ability to experiment with Spring Cloud, so the spring cloud command…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 2 of the Spring Cloud Camden Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

This release includes primarily bug fixes.

The following modules were updated as part of Camden.SR2:

• Spring Cloud Netflix 1.2.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Consul 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud CLI 1.2.2.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Streams Brooklyn.SR1

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either on GitHub, on gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter.

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to create components that are aware of the Spring container

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of the second milestone of Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.1.

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes provides support for orchestrating long-running (streaming) and short-lived (task/batch) data microservices on Kubernetes.

Note: A great way to start using this new release(s) is to follow the release matrix on the project page, which includes the download coordinates and the links to the reference guide.

The most significant changes for this release can be found in the Spring Cloud Deployer for Kubernetes project. Thanks to…

Hello and welcome back to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're now two weeks until 2017 - time sure is flying! This week I'm in Los Angeles, California, USA, and then it's off to London for µCon 2016, Devoxx Belgium and Oredev. If you're at any of these events be sure to say hi! Now, without further ado let's get to it!

• first, be sure to check out this webinar on Spring Cloud Contract by Marcin Grzejszczak
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just announced that Spring Vault and Spring Cloud Vault 1.0.0.M1 are now available
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch announced the release of Spring Security 4.2.0.RC1 with lots of new features and updates.
• In last week's "Spring Tips" installment I looked at circuit breakers in Spring, including the Hystrix circuit breaker and the new circuit breaker functionality in Spring Retry
• related, Spring Cloud team member Ryan Baxter shared new …

Speaker: Marcin Grzejszczak Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/MarcinGrzejszczak/consumer-driven-contracts-and-your-microservice-architecture-67641511

TDD introduced many improvements into the development process, but in our opinion the biggest impact relates to code design. Looking at the code from the usage perspective (by first writing an acceptance test) allows us to focus on usability rather than concrete implementation. Unfortunately, we usually rest on our laurels not trying to uplift this practice to the architecture level.

This presentation will show you how you can use the Spring…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the first milestone releases of Spring Vault and Spring Cloud Vault 1.0.0.M1.

The artifacts are available in the Milestone repo.

What is Spring Vault and Spring Cloud Vault?

Spring Vault is a client for HashiCorp Vault that provides familiar Spring abstractions. It comes with @VaultPropertySource that exposes encrypted properties from Vault the Environment and VaultTemplate to access secrets stored and encrypted inside Vault.

@Configuration
@VaultPropertySource("secret/my-application")
public class AppConfig extends…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.0.RC1.

What’s New in Spring Security 4.2

You can find highlights of what’s new in the What’s New in Spring Security 4.2 section of the reference. This release closes out 70+ issues which can be found in the 4.2 M1 and 4.2 RC1 changelogs.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja…