Hi Spring fans! What a crazy wonderful week it's been! I'm back in San Francisco talking to customers and local partners about all things Pivotal and, also, just enjoying some fun in the San Francisco Sun while playing with Java 9 . There's so much to like in this new release and so much to look forward to and, of course, Spring Framework 5 is Java 9 ready out of the box.

• Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring IO Platform Brussels SR5. The new release includes Spring AMQP 1.7.4, Spring Boot 1.5.7, Spring Data Ingalls SR7, Spring Framework 4.3.11, Spring Integration 4.3.12, Spring Loaded 1.2.8, and Spring Web Flow 2.4.6. Lots to like in this new release so get the bits now!
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just posted on how to overcome some issues when running STS on macOS High Sierra 10.13.
• Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.2.RELEASE…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been visiting the Spring and Cloud Foundry teams at Microsoft (this time, in Redmond, WA) and then it's off to San Francisco, CA and San Antonio, TX to visit some customers. So, with that, let's get to it!

• I loved this Pivotal Engineering post on how we transitioned Pivotal Web Services, our hosted, multitenant installation of Cloud Foundry, to CredHub. CredHub is designed to store passwords, keys, certificates, and other sensitive information for a BOSH-managed environment.
• Spring Boot ninja Brian Clozel just announced Spring Boot 1.5.7 which includes scores of fixes, dependency updates, and improvements.
• Spring Integration lead and messaging ninja Gary Russell just announced Spring AMQP 2.0 RC1…

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Singapore for the amazing YOW! Singapore event and talking to customers.

Also, I'll be doing a meetup on testing - don't miss it!

• It's almost time for Spring 5! Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring Framework 5.0.RC4, which is aligned with Spring Boot 2.0.M4, JUnit 5, and Reactor 3.1 RC1. This might be your last chance to kick the tires before the big release! There's so much new stuff in this release!
• This is pretty interesting! There's a Spring Cloud Config Server MongoDB project in the Spring Cloud incubator. Try it out!
• Spring framework ninja Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Framework 4.3.11.
• Spring Cloud and Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just announced Spring Cloud Vault 1.1.0.RC1. This release includes pull-mode support for AppRole…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Hong Kong for the amazing YOW! Hong Kong event and then it's off to Singapore for the YOW! Singapore event. If you're in either region, these conferences are world-class events from Australia and they're new in the region so I hope you'll give them a shot.

• Check out this first of many introductions to various aspects of Spring Cloud Data Flow. This first introduction, by Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Eric Bottard, looks at the Spring Cloud Data Flow shell itself.
• Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud Edgeware M1. The new release includes updates to the various projects as well as the new Spring Cloud Gateway project. This version is based on Spring Boot 1.5.x.
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Finchely M2…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I was in Beijing, China for the fabulous Spring Summit event which saw technologists from all around China descend on the capitol for a discussion of all things cloud native and Spring. Then I'm off to Shenzhen, China and Hong Kong for customer visits and the epic YOW! Hong Kong show!

• Pivotal have released a commercial version of the Concourse CI pipeline tool for Cloud Foundry. Check it, and Spring Cloud Pipelines, out!
• I liked Bruno Leite's post on error handling in a Spring Boot-based REST API.
• You might like Baeldung's post on using GraphQL with Spring Boot
• This project seems interesting, though I haven't used it yet. It lets you use ModelMapper with Spring Boot applications.
• This is a great find by community legend Tommy Ludwig who noticed that Bitbucket is now running on Spring Boot!
• This post…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring. Can you believe we're already nearing the end of August?? Time sure flies!

Last week and over the weekend I was in Hangzhou, China visiting with Alibaba, talking to a few of the teams using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud at China-scale.

This week I'm in Shanghai, China, where I've been talking to customers and spending a few days with the teams at Microsoft China who are working on the Spring Boot and Pivotal Cloud Foundry integrations for Microsoft Azure. They're doing some amazing work and it's been an honor to hang out with them. Check out all the cool Spring Boot starters that they've built for the various Azure services…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a busy week! I started last week talking to a group of developers in North Carolina, then gave a VJUG presentation with Matt Raible in San Francisco, then spoke to developers in Saint Louis, then flew to New York City to shoot a video on continuous delivery for three days in a hot studio (over the weekend no less!) and now as I wing back to San Francisco I look forward to spending a blissful 14 hours on the ground before I'm off to Asia (Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Singapore) for about…

Hi Spring fans!

My favorite time of the year is almost here! It's that special time when people reunite, in the northern hemisphere's chilly December to give freely and unconditionally of one another; when people have jovial discussions (and sometimes heated debates) over dinner with people they admire; when people open their hearts and minds to each other; when we reflect on the year behind us and look forward to tomorrow, the next week and the next year; when amazing new memories we'll cherish forever are forged. It's that special time of giving, of openness. I don't need to tell you about…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm presenting with my buddy Matt Raible on the VJUG (Virtual JUG) on Progressive Web Applications with Spring Boot and Angular 4, this Wednesday. Join us! Then it's off to New York City, NY where I'll be working with my buddy Marcin Grzejszczak on an exciting new project.

• Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR4. This release revises the versions for Spring Batch 3.0.8, Spring Boot 1.5.6, Spring Data Ingalls SR6, Spring Framework 4.3.10, Spring Integration 4.3.11, and Spring Retry 1.2.1.
• The first milestone of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0 is out! Lots of nice new features including a flashy new user interface based on Angular 4, better documentation, better test coverage, and so much more.
• Spring Cloud Pipelines lead Marcin Grzejszczak just announced Spring Cloud Pipelines 1.0.0.M6. This release supports a powerful mechanism called pipeline descriptors…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Nashville, TN, for a meetup presentation on Reactive Spring and then it's off to Kansas City, KS for a replay of the same talk. Both times I'll be joined by pal Mark Heckler. If you're in either of those cities, don't miss this!

I'm working on the next installments of Spring Tips: what would you like to see covered? Let me know on Twitter on @SpringTipsLive.

This week we have a truly massive good many things to look at so let's get started!

• Spring messaging and integration maestro Artem Bilan just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 M3. The new release includes, among other things, a new KafkaTransactionManager and according supportin the KakfaTemplate.
• Spring Session 2.0 M3 Released - Spring Security and Session ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Session 2.0.M3. This new release adds support for Spring WebFlux, and its WebSession and reactive programming in general.
• Not one to rest on his laurels, Christoph Strobl also announced the new release of Spring Data Kay RC1 and RC2…