Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already midway through the year?? Stunning.

This week I'm in San Francisco preparing for a video shoot next week and a joint presentatio with Google's Ray Tsang at next week's Google NEXT and tomorrow it's off to Portland, OR, for the epic OSCON event where I'll be doing a book signing at the O'Reilly booth on Wednesday and I'll be doing a talk, Reactive Spring, on thursday. As usual, if you're in the region and want to chat or grab a Voodoo doughnut, don't hesitate to say hi!

Now, without further ado, let's get on with the show..

• Today, Pivotal joined Red Hat, Facebook, Google, IBM, CA Technologies, Cisco, HPE, Microsoft, SAP, SUSE, VMware, and more in committing to provide the open source community a cure period for license noncompliance under GPLv2 and LGPLv2. What's that mean? Read on!
• Spring Batch 4.1.0.M2 Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.6 M2 released
• Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.SR1 Released
• How Pivotal Cloud Foundry 2.2 Helps You Improve the Metrics that Matter.
• This tutorial, by TheServerSide's Cameron McKenzie on how Spring Boot accelerates Java application development and makes it easier is well worth a read! It's detailed and illustrative.
• Marcin is the lead of Spring Cloud Contract and his talks are not to be missed!
• I’m so glad to see this! It’s an article on how to use Spring Retry, which I personally love. Spring Retry is half the bloat and a nicer programming model than Hystrix.
• We did it again! Pivotal won Microsoft Azure US ISV Partner of Year for 2018. 2nd year in a row!
• Great post over on the eBay R&D blog on integration testing their Spring applications
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just in with the uh... well, the data! June download stats for @SpringData are impressive, and saw a solid 100% year-over-year growth with almost 2 million downloads per month now! Congrats to the Spring Data team and thank you Spring community!
• Nice post by Krzysztof Chruściel on Spring Boot 2
• This Japanese-language post on Spring Cloud Contract looks (as far as I can tell, after running it through Google Translate) compelling
• Sweet sweet Spring Cloud Function support has been added to the Spring Initializr!
• Good news everybody! Eberhard Wolff, Spring and architecture expert extraordinaire, has updated the code for his demos and free booklets to the latest and greatest Spring Boot 2 and Spring Cloud Finchley
• Great article on how to modernize legacy code, making it reactive as you go
• This is an interesting series from our friends at Codecentric on building applications with Spring
• Odds are you're going to love this video by Pivotal's very own Jim Weaver on reactive card magic
• The talk I gave with Kotlin legend Sebastien Deleuze on Bootiful Kotlin at the recent Spring I/O in Barcelona, Spain is online and - if I may - well worth a watch!
• Check out Allard Buijze's epic Spring I/O 2018 talk Bootiful CQRS and Event Sourcing with Axon Framework