Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Istanbul, Turkey talking to customers and speaking at the Spring and Java meetups tonight. I hope you'll join me and we'll talk about cloud native Java! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 4.3.11. This release includes security updates as well as bug fixes.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.8, which is mainly a maintenance release and a bugfix release.
• Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll has announced Spring Framework 4.3.10 which is a maintenance release for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.5 maintenance release. It includes 25 fixes and improvements.
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Dalston SR2…

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Crete, Greece, for the epic JCrete un-conference and then it's off to Istanbul, Turkey for next week's visits with customers and for the Spring meetup. I hope you'll join me in Istanbul!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced the Spring Integration Extension for Hazlecast 1.0.0.GA. This new release features mainly bug fixes and improvements. It also adds support distributed, clustered applications with implementations of HazelcastMessageStore, HazelcastLockRegistry, and HazelcastMetadataStore.
• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security OAuth 2.2.0.RC1. This new release includes improvements to the way JWT tokens and claim sets are handled. Do not miss the update!
• Want to profile Java applications on Cloud Foundry…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kansas City, Kansas; and Phoenix, Arizona talking to customers and Pivotal partners about all things Spring and Cloud Foundry. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi!

We've got a lot to cover this week, so let's get started!

• Mark Fisher debuted the first look at Spring Cloud Function, an abstraction that brings the function-as-a-service paradigm to your Spring applications. This is a must-read!
• Spring (big-)Data ninja Thomas Risberg just announced Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 GA which mostly includes bugfixes and dependency updates.
• Spring Cloud co-founder just announced the first milestone of Spring Cloud Finchley. This release is the first to be based on the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0 baseline with one major new feature: a new microproxy called Spring Cloud Gateway which we see as a replacement for Zuul 1.
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.0 released…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! If you're in the US, then let me wish you a happy 4th of July! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.2. This new version improves compatibility with Spring Boot 1.5.4 which in turn brought in a new version of Spring Data.
• The Spring Framework Guru web portal has an interesting look at what's new in Spring Framework 5! Check it out!
• I liked this post on Bozho's Tech Blog on setting up the epic Spring Boot Admin for monolithic applications, eschewing some of the more common, albeit more complex, setups.
• our friend Petri Kainulainen is back at it again this time with a new newsletter that looks to capture…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago, New York City and Denver talking to Pivotal customers. We've got a lot of good stuff to look at this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg just announced Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.5.0.RC1. The new release is primarily a bugfix. The post looks forward to Spring for Apache Hadoop 3.0, which will be based on Spring Boot, a Java 8 baseline, Spark 2.0 integration, and Spring Batch 4.0 readers and writers.
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch looks at a lot of the new features in Spring Data Kay including support for fluent MongoOperations, Kotlin,smarter MongoDB collation, Java 9 compatability, and so much more.
• I liked Arnold Galovics's post on how to configure a DataSource proxy in Spring Boot.
• Kotlin's hidden costs - Benchmarks - Renato Athaydes…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Krakow, Poland for the epic Devoxx PL event and then it's off to Luxembourg for the VoxxedDays Luxembourg event! If you're around, don't hesitate to say hi

• Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring Framework 5.0 RC2. The new release is a major revision of RC1, refactoring the reactive support and path pattern parsing. It introduces JSR 305 based @Nullable / @NonNullApi Spring annotations into the codebase.
• Spring Data Release Train Kay M4 Released - Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch just announced Spring Data Train Kay M4, packed with new features and updates. Get the bits now!
• Spring IO Platform Athens-SR6 - Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson has just announced Spring IO Platform Athens-SR6, available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. The new maintenance release includes Spring Boot 1.4.7, Spring Framework 4.3.9, Sspring Integration 4.3.10, Spring REST…

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Redmond, hanging out with our friends and Pivotal partner Microsoft talking about Cloud Foundry on Microsoft Azure. As you may know, Microsoft's Azure IaaS platform is the #2 most widely used cloud and it's growing! It's got more datacenters than the other two cloud vendors in more regions (including in Germany and China!) and a huge raft of services that support both Windows and Linux operating systems. There's so much exciting stuff coming up including Azure Stack, which runs Azure on-premise, and the amazing integration between Azure and PCF. I'm looking…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Malaysia and then Singapore where I'll spend time with customers in the financial services world and speak at the Singapore Spring User Group on June 8th. If you're around, come out or say hi!

• Spring IO Platform lead and Spring Boot ninja Andy Wilkinson just announced the Gradle Dependency management plugin 1.0.3
• Spring web guru has just announced Spring Web Flow 2.4.5
• the Baeldung blog has a nice look at Spring Boot and Kotlin
• Ranga Karanam put together a nice look at building web applications with Spring Boot
• I liked this blog offering tips and tricks for using the compile-time annotation processor Lombok in production application. Lombok is not a Spring project, obviously, but it's easy to use with Spring and it's available on the Spring Initializr [as a dependency].
• I reallly enjoyed some of the replies in the Quora post …

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Chicago for the epic Spring Days Chicago and then I'm off to Singapore for VOXXED Singapore. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja has just announced the new Spring Security OAuth 2.1.1 and 2.0.4
• Spring Cloud Data Flow engineer Gunnar Hillert just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.1
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Dalston SR1
• I liked Jonas Hecht's post looking at how to run Spring Boot on Docker Windows
• I loved this post from RedHat engineer Sébastien Blanc on using Keycloak, their OAuth-aware identity provider, with Spring Boot applications. Keycloak is also supported on the Spring Initializr.
• The Docker blog also has a nice post by Sophia Parafina on …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Amsterdam, NL and Essen, DE, talking to customers about cloud-native transformation. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced a preview of Concourse Pipeline and Cloud Foundry manifest editing support releases as a language server. These language servers can be used by any IDE or text editor that supports them, including in this case Microsoft's Visual Studio Code and later STS itself.
• Spring Cloud Stream ninja Soby Chako just announced Spring Cloud Stream.SR2
• Simon Baslé just announced the Reactor Bismuth release train M1
• Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 2.0M1! It's finally here! Get the bits of the first major release towards a reactive Spring Boot 2.0. There's so much good stuff…