Hi Spring fans! What a week! This week I'm in beautiful Dallas, TX, for the Spring One Tour Dallas event which is, like so many of the other cities already, utterly and completely sold out! What a crowd!

Wow #SpringOneTour Dallas, you’re so #bootiful ! pic.twitter.com/SySCBw4UNX

— Josh Long (龙之春, जोश) (@starbuxman) April 3, 2018

And, so, without further ado, let's get to it!

• Spring Framework Juergen Hoeller has just announced Spring Framework 5.0.5 and 4.3.15 are now available.
• Check out the PR supporting Pact v3 in Spring Cloud Contract.next. Now would be a good time to try it out and feedback!
• PCF 2.1 and the Quest for a One Pizza Ops Team
• Check out this shiny new Kotlin DSL for Spring Data Cassandra!
• Spring Boot lead Phil Webb has published a nice look at property binding in Spring Boot 2.0
• Spring Batch 1.0.0. was released ten years and a week ago, on March 28th, 2018. Happy tenth anniversary, Spring Batch!
• Roy Clarkson has just announced that the Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.0.0.M2…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm hanging out in sunny San Francisco talking to local customers and working on more installments of the next season of Spring Tips.

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

• Check this Pivotal showcase on object detection with Spring Cloud Stream.
• Spring Security SAML DSL lead Filip Hanik has just announced the 1.0.5.RELEASE of our SAML DSL project. This release works against Spring Security SAML 1.0.4.RELEASE. This release adds a simple Java configuration option to your existing Spring Boot applications.
• Ryan Baxter has just announced Spring Cloud Finchley.M9. This new release includes some nice features in Spring Cloud Gateway including support for rolling deployments and route refresh from service discovery heartbeats.
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert has …

Hi Spring fans, and welcome to the first day of the Spring season! This week I'm in San Francisco visiting some customers and just hanging out, working on new Spring Tips installments, enjoying the amazing weather. As if today wasn't exciting enough, Java 10 also shipped today! I know that all seems like enough already, but read on as we have a lot of good stuff this week!

• We want your feedback on this Spring Cloud Contract proposal to support fetching stubs over different protocols
• Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Gunnar Hillert has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.4.0. The new release includes improved dashboards, versioned streams, a new stream deployment builder, support for Docker compose, security improvements, proxy server support for the shell, LDAP Role Mapping support and improved documentation, among other things. This is a massive release with a lot of good stuff, so don't miss it!
• Spring Security and OAuth-ninja Joe Grandja has just released Spring Security OAuth 2.3.0 which now supports Elliptic Curve signature verification in JwkTokenStore…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in blizzard-besieged Boston, Massachusetts, for the epic Spring One Tour Boston event. Unfortunately, due to this crazy snow storm / blizzard, the event's been postponed one day as we all grapple with the weather. Hope you were able to join the Spring Boot 2.0 launch webinar! If not the replay will be available here and don't forget to check out the launch blog!

Snow or no snow! The show must go on, at least here on the Spring blog, so without further ado:

• The Reactor team is looking for a motivated new engineer to join the team - apply now!
• Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Gunnar Hillert has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.4 RC1
• Spring IO Platform Cairo-RC1 lead Andy Wilkinson has just announced the latest updates, including Spring Boot 2.0. Check it out and make sure works as you expect it to.
• I love this post by Spring team legend Stéphane Nicoll on upgrading the Spring Initializr (http://start.spring.io) to Spring Boot 2.0.
• The Spring Data JDBC project has added @Modify for marking queries that perform DML or DDL. Modifying queries will return type boolean or Boolean…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this it's early morning Tuesday in Sydney, Australia, where I've been visiting with some of Pivotal's amazing customers, and I'm now preparing for my flight to Dubai, in six short hours, where I'll visit some more of Pivotal's amazing customers. Later this week I'll be in Bangalore, India, for the amazing Agile India conference, and then - early next week on Tuesday - I'll be in Boston, MA for the first SpringOne Tour event. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi, as usual!

This week we've got a lot of…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! This is a super exciting week! Spring Boot 2.0 is coming! Keep your eyes on the Spring Initializr or you'll miss it! :D

Today I was at the Okta Iterate conference talking to developers who are using Spring and Okta, thanks to my buddy Matt Raible. High point? I got to meet Jeff Atwood, the co-creator of Stack Overflow!

Tomorrow, I begin a whirlwind tour over the next two weeks. First, it's off to Glasgow, Scotland; then Sydney, Australia; then Dubai; then Bangalore, India (for Agile India 2018); and then it's off to Boston, Massachusetts for the SpringOne Tour event on March 13th. If you're in any of those places, don't hesitate to reach out…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm speaking at the San Diego JUG with Mario Gray on testing with Spring. Then I'm off to the IBM Index conference here in San Francisco where I'll be talking about building reactive microservices, and then it's off to Devnexus in Atlanta, GA, where I'll be talking about Kotlin and testing. I hope you'll join me and say hi if you're nearby.

• Stéphane Nicoll has just announced Spring Framework 5.0.4.
• Check out this whitepaper on building flexible Spring Cloud Data Flow data pipelines
• It's now even easier to use Spring Cloud Stream from the Spring Initializr: now you need only choose a binder implementation (Kafka, or RabbitMQ) and then choose whether you want the implementation to be reactive or not, and you're off to the races!
• Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.M3. The new release includes smarter default behavior when an application closes, the ability to restrict tasks from running concurrently, …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it looks like i'll be in New York City and San Francisco for the balance of the week.

We've got a lot to cover so without further ado so let's get started.

• Spring Cloud Contract lead Marcin Grzejszczak has just put together a very nice post on using Spring Cloud Contract in a polyglot world
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky just announced Spring Cloud Streamm Elmhurst M4 / 2.0.0.M4.
• Spring Integration legend Artem Bilan just announced the Spring Integration for AWS 2.0.0.M1 and Spring Cloud Stream Kinesis Binder 1.0.0.M1. This release highlights some of the things that we do to make the experience as valuable as possible for you, including - in this case - adapting the AWS…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Stockholm, Sweden, for the epic (and snowy) JFokus event, then it's off to Frankfurt, Germany for the OOP show. If you're at either event, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi on Twitter (@starbuxman)!

• Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0.GA is here! A cross-cloud (Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes) option for continuous delivery/updating/rollback/query of Spring Boot-based applications. Spring Cloud Skipper underpins the recently added support in Spring Cloud Data Flow for versioning and rolling back stream definitions, but it's also useful in its own right.
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky just announced Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.M4 /2.0.0.M4 Release . The new release includes performance improvements around content-type resolution, Introduction of Polling Source as an alternative to the event-driven message consumption, StreamListener…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I was in Los Angeles and Chicago and now I'm in San Francisco, taking meetings with Pivotal ecosystem folks and customers. We've got an incredibly busy week's worth of stuff ahead of us, so let's get to it!

• Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini has announced that Reactor Bismuth-SR5 is out with fixes, Reactive Streams 1.0.2, Netty 4.1.20 and a few new cool features there
• Check out this post by Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja on what the future of OAuth 2 support in Spring is
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced an immediate update for a CVE for Spring Security 5.0.1, 4.2.4, and 4.1.5
• Reactive Spring web ninja Sebastien Deleuze has just announced the integration and support for Reactive Smile (binary JSON) support in Spring Framework 5.0.4
• Vedran Pavić has …