Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.3.0.M3, chock full of great features including HTTP session persistence, JMS and AMQP improvements, logging improvements, and auto-configurations for the H2 Database console and embedded MongoDB.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.5
• Check out this cool look at using Spring Boot to process Twitter feeds with Neo4j
• check out this interesting Chinese-language post on using .yml with Spring Boot
• Disid corporation has just announced a maintenance release for Spring Roo
• Just saw this post. Our very own Cornelia Davis, director of platform engineering, was recognized as one of the top 10 women in cloud by CloudNOW! As she has for years now, she'll be at SpringOne2GX…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Washington D.C., delivering some cloud-native realtalk at the Agile 2015 conference with my pal Andrew Clay Shafer then it's off to Denver, CO, again to speak to customers! If you're in either area, say hi!

We're fast approaching SpringOne2GX 2015! Things are getting exciting around here as the team delivers more and more amazing bits! The weeks to come, leading into SpringOne2GX, are my favorite time of the year. Watch this space for new releases aplenty!

• The biggest announcement, this week, of course, is the General availability of Spring framework 4.2! Get the bits while they're hot! This is a game changer release, packed with new features! I'll wait while you go read the new features list..
• ..Welcome back! Have you upgraded your applications already to Spring framework 4.2? Good! Next up on the list: Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller's followup post looking forward to the next feature release of Spring Framework, 4.3
• Spring Session (and Spring Security!) lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Session 1.0.2…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data SR2 which includes 40 issues fixed and includes an important update to the support for JTA 1.2's @Transactional
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.1 which includes Spring Security 4 and LDAP 2.0 support, as well as a fix for an issue.
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch doesn't sleep so he also just announced Spring Security 3.2.8
• Not resting on his laurels, Spring Security lead Rob Winch also announced Spring Security 4.0.2 which - among other things - includes numerous bug fixes, support for Spring framework 4.2, and minor improvements to Spring Security itself including a status code returning …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

This week in I'm in Shanghai, China and Hangzhou, China and Shenzhen, China, talking to some of the world's largest websites (of the same scale of Netflix!) about their use of Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. (More on that later!)

Anyway, without further ado..

• Paul Chapman put together a nice walkthrough Spring Cloud today. Way to go Paul!
• Andy Wilkinson just announced the Spring IO Platform BOM 1.1.3 has been released
• Spring Boot 1.3M2 - along with new support for JOOQ, /flyway and /liquibase Actuator endpoints, ANSI colored banner.txt, and Apache Artemis integration (among many other things) is now available! Check it out.
• If you missed Spring rockstar and Spring Boot ninja Greg Turnquist's talk on debugging and maintaing Spring Boot applications (why would you miss it??), then check it out
• This is a nice …

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'll be in Shanghai, China, talking to some customers (say hi on Twitter!) and then it's off to Shenzhen, China, where I'll be giving a keynote at the ArchSummit conference.

• Spring Integraton lead Gary Russell has just announced Spring Integration 4.2 and 4.1.6 are now available. The new release includes support for Apache Zookeeper, Java 8 CompletableFutures, (S)FTP -streams, and several performance improvements.
• Spring Boot co-lead Phil Webb has just announced Spring Boot 1.2.5.
• Spring framework 4.2 is fast approaching (in about a week!) and there are many new versions of many different (and sometimes new) projects supported. To find out more, check out this detailed blog by Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller
• Spring Data ninja Christoph Strobl has just announced the Spring Data Fowler SR1 release…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in warm 'n wonderful Austin, TX to meet with customers and then off to Mexico City, Mexico to present the keynote at a the SG Conference and Expo. If you're in Mexico City y si le gustaria hablarme sobre todos las cosas Spring y la informatica, sere a Mexico City desde miercoles. No hesita a contactarme en Twitter (@starbuxman)!

It's June 30th! Whew this year is flying! We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller just announced Spring framework 4.1.7 and 3.2.14, both of which are maintenance releases
• Spring framework ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced Spring framework 4.2 RC2, packed with lots of new features!
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced updates version 3.7.0. The updates include Eclipse Mars 4.5 GA, Spring Boot YML support, improved Cloud Foundry integration, Pivotal tcServer 3.1.1 support, and early support for Spring Roo 2.0.0.M1 (thanks to Disid).
• the good Dr. Syer, co-founder of the Spring Boot and Spring Cloud projects, just announced the first Spring Cloud release train, Angel.SR3…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I was in London, last week, for Devoxx UK. The show was a rousing success all around. I gave a talk, a workshop, and was delighted to participate in the closing keynote, too! This week I'm in Kraków, Poland, for Devoxx Poland (né 33rd Degree) which seems to be an amazing success as well! I want to thank the organizers (Mark Hazell and Grzegorz Duda of Devoxx UK and PL respectively) for inviting me - I haven't had this much fun in a while and I love the communities that both events serve.

In addition to being in the keynote, I was…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny London for Devoxx UK where I'll be talking to developers about building cloud-native applications with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry. As usual, if you're in the area, hit me up. The big news this week is the Spring XD 1.2 GA blowing the doors off performance numbers! No benchmarketing here, everything is published and reproducible: Performance turning to get ~12 MILLION msg/sec with an in-memory transport and 2.6MILLION msg/sec when using Kafka (100 byte messages). Lots more detail in the …

This post is a guest post by community member Tadaya Tsuyukubo (@ttddyy), creator of the Spring Social Slideshare project. Thanks Tadaya! I’d like to see more of these guest posts, so - as usual - don’t hesitate to ping me! -Josh

Spring Social Evernote is one of the community modules in the Spring Social ecosystem. It is a service provider implementation for Evernote. It allows developers to work with the Evernote SDK for Java with idiomatic Spring idioms.

Evernote takes a unique approach for providing their APIs to developers. They have created language specific SDKs based on Thrift serialization format. Dave Engberg, CTO of Evernote, explained the motivations for choosing Thrift in this blog…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! What a week! This week I'm in Kansas City for the 6,000+-strong developer conference of a single company's developers and then it's back to New York City for QCon NYC where I'll be talking up building cloud-native applications with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. If you're in either place be sure to reach out to me and let's talk shop (Spring, and, optionally, in Kansas City, BBQ..)

• Spring co-founder and project lead Juergen Hoeller put together two must-read posts this week: the first looks at Java 8 and Spring 4 adoption. ALSO, much, much, much more importantly: HE MENTIONED THIS WEEK IN SPRING :D #WIN.
• Juergen also posted is one of my favorite in years, a brutally honest look at the Java EE 7 landscape and the depressing lack of (big-vendor) supported implementations options for production-supported Java EE containers. You know, the man has a point..
• The amazing Dr. Pollack (see above!) announced Spring XD 1.2 RC1. The new release is packed with lots of new stuff including an Apache Ambari plugin to package and deploy Spring XD into production, new analytics, new features and performance improvements for the Apache Kafka support, improved HA configuration for RabbitMQ, Sqoop metastore support, and a lot…