We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.7.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. This is the 7th maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of minor bug fixes and enhancements. Most important of them, it addresses compatibility issues with the latest Spring Data release as well as adding updates to support the latest Hibernate releases. Many thanks to all of those who submitted the many pull requests that went into this release.

Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

We look forward to your feedback in Jira, StackOverflow, or to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.0.RC2. This release resolved over 60 tickets.

What's New in 4.1

You can find a good summary of What's New in Spring Security 4.1 in the reference documentation.

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. A special thanks to the following people who provided pull requests for this release:

• #51 - SEC-1932 Add Pbkdf2PasswordEncoder Thanks Rob Worsnop
• #180 - Allow setting alwaysRemember from RememberMeConfigurer Thanks Leon Radley
• #183 - Remove duplicate test. Thanks Johnny Lim
• #193 - Fix corrupted character and add formatting per the duplicated text block Thanks Art O Cathain
• #196 - SEC-2978: fix typos in documentation Thanks Soeun Park
• #197 - Update HttpSecurity.java logout() sample code Thanks Jeffrey Walraven
• #228 - Fix typos Thanks Johnny Lim
• #3764 - Authentication Success and Failure Handlers in AbstractPreAuthenticatedProcessingFilter Thanks Shazin Sadakath
• #3777 - Content Negotiating Logout Success Handler #3282 Thanks …

Following previous Reactive Spring and Reactor Core 3.0 blog posts, I would like to explain why Reactive types are useful and how they compare to other asynchronous types, based on what we have learned while working on the Spring Framework 5 upcoming Reactive support.

Why using Reactive types?

Reactive types are not intended to allow you to process your requests or data faster, in fact they will introduce a small overhead compared to regular blocking processing. Their strength lies in their capacity to serve more request concurrently, and to handle operations with latency, such as requesting…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Stuttgart and Mainz, Germany and Paris, France, speaking to customers and at the JAX conference, then it's off to Paris, France, to speak at the Devoxx France edition. If you're around in any of these places don't hesitate to reach out I'd love to say hello.

Also, tonight, I'll be joining my friends from industry (Daniel Bryant, Markus Eisele, and Simon Maple) for the ZeroTurnaround webinar, Microservices for the Enterprise. There are already more than 3,000 people registered and I hope to see you there, as well!

As usual…

The latest milestone version of Spring Cloud is "Brixton.RC2" and it is available now from the usual repositories (details in the home page). This is a bugfix release building on the RC1, and there are no notable new features. If all goes well we'd like to get to a RELEASE in a week or two.

The Bigger Picture

Let's talk about Pivotal. Our ambition is to make business more agile, to reduce the time around the innovation loop; speed is the single biggest advantage an organization can have. Pivotal's main "product" is agility. This translates naturally into technology. Microservices are well-defined, small, easy-to-evolve, independently deployable batches of functionality. They lend themselves to rapid iteration because they're small. Spring Boot and the Spring ecosystem make short work of standing up new microservices and applications, and Spring Cloud handles the complexity in…

One of the nice things about working for Pivotal is that they have a great agile development division called Pivotal Labs. The teams within Labs are big proponents of Lean and XP software methodologies such as pair programming and test-driven development. Their love of testing has had a particular impact on Spring Boot 1.4 as we've started to get great feedback on things that could be improved. This blog post highlights some of the new testing features that have just landed in the latest M2 release.

Testing without Spring

The easiest way to unit test any Spring @Component is to not involve…

Dear Spring Community,

On behalf of Spring Integration Team, I'm glad to announce that Spring Integration AWS 1.0.0.M1 is available now for download from the Spring milestone repository.

Since the 0.5.0 pre-release version we have fully reworked the core bits for simpler programming model and introduced new components. Currently the Spring Integration AWS is based on the Spring Cloud AWS project at its foundation.

Thank you to all who have contributed to this milestone!

Highlights of this Milestone include:

• Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) Adapters

• Amazon Simple Queue Service (SQS) Adapters

• Amazon Simple Notification Service (SNS) Adapters

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This is a cross-post blog from Simon BASLÉ from Couchbase. You can find him on twitter (@simonbasle) or github. Learn more about Couchbase and the Couchbase Java SDK on the developer portal.

Spring Boot 1.4.0 MILESTONE 2 is out! This is a good time to tell you about the joint effort between Spring Boot team members and the Couchbase Java SDK team to offer a first class integration of Couchbase into Spring Boot :)

In Spring Boot 1.4.0, Couchbase becomes a first class citizen of the Spring Boot ecosystem!

Couchbase SDK Integration

Spring Boot now directly recognizes when you have the Couchbase SDK in your classpath. And when that's the case, it instantiates a Cluster and a Bucket bean for you using autoconfiguration…