Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Here in the US it's the week of Thanksgiving, where - hopefully - we take a moment to note the many things for which we're thankful. I'm sure I speak for the whole team here at Pivotal when I say: we're thankful for you, dear community. Thank you.

And so, as usual, we've got a lot to get to it. All the better, in fact, for the lazy hours after turkey!

• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3 GA and Spring Flo for Spring XD 1.0. This is a huge release! Spring XD 1.3.0 supports job composition DSLs, Spring Flo for Spring XD, an improved Admin UI, Spark 1.3.1, updates to the Spring Data and Spring for Hadoop distributions, a Cassandra Sink and much more! It is also the last in the line before Spring XD completes its journey to the archhitecture already partially laid out in Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Dataflow! This is an exciting evolution of the technology!
• Spring Security and Spring Session lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Session 1.1.0.M1 complete with a lot of new features: searching HTTP sessions by username, HttpSessionListener support, customized Cookie creation, overriding the default RedisSerializer…

My goodness the time has flown! We're already staring down the beginning of 2016!

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in beautiful Casablanca, Morocco for Devoxx Morocco! This is the fifth Devoxx this year - with events in Belgium, UK, France, Poland and now Morocco - and I have the rare honor of having spoken at all of them! #fullDevoxx

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

• Spring Boot 1.3 has just been released! This is the most epic release of Spring Boot yet and I won't even try to do the release notes! Just go check it out and visit the Spring Initialzr
• Spring framework 4.2.3 has just been released!
• Netflix have just announced the open-sourcing of their build-and-bake pipeline for continuous delivery - project Spinnaker. It's interesting for lots of reasons, but one of them is that it's written using Spring Boot!
• I'll be coming to Washington DC with several of my cloudiest friends - join us!
• There's a new checkbox on the Spring Initializr to enable the Ratpack Spring Boot integration…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the grand mother of all Devoxxes (Devoxxen?), Devoxx Belgium! I'm here along with several members of the team and if you're around, don't hesitate to say hi!

• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3RC1
• Stormpath, the cloud, and on-premise, identity provider as-a-service has put up an exhaustive blog on using their Spring Boot auto-configuration with Spring Security! This is a really cool integration. I hope people reward their hard work in striving for the most powerful, expressive, and convenient developer experience! Way to go!
• Check out this short-and-sweet article on DZone to learn about Spring Boot's auto-configuration mechanism
• The Spring framework Guru is back with a video tutorial …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Sofia, Bulgaria for one of my favorite shows, the epic Java2Days event!

Last week saw the release (finally!) of Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.6, which contains more than a year and half of highly anticipated features and heavy lifting. The new release includes, among many other things, support for platform-managed GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and CloudBees Jenkins CI; support for microservices infrastructure including the Spring Cloud Config Server, and Spring Cloud Eureka; and support for Docker container images and .NET applications; and support for running on Microsoft Azure. This release is packed with all sorts of features optimized for the continuous and safe delivery of software into production and I…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm at JavaOne 2015 in San Francisco along with the rest of the Pivotal team. This week the Pivotal Spring team is out in full force, come stop by and say hi!

There are some great new SpringOne2GX 2015 recordings on line as well as some great community content this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud cofounder's Spencer Gibb and Dr. David Syer's talk on the Spring Cloud Developer experience from SpringOne2GX 2015!
• Spring tools ninja Martin Lippert continues his series with this third installment on using Spring Boot Dashboard in STS
• Gary Russell has just announced a few new maintenance releases of Spring Integration
• Check out this upcoming IntelliJ IDEA webinar on the new Spring framework and Spring Boot support in IntelliJ IDEA with Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll
• this post by Rajith Delantha walks through using Spring Security OAuth with Spring Boot
• My article on the …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week is the first week (of many) where the crazy awesome [https://twitter.com/pieterhumphrey](Pieter Humphrey) has released scores of SpringOne2GX 2015 videos for our binge watching enjoyment! Most of this week's bountiful roundup is thanks to Pieter's meticulous transcoding, uploading and posting videos from SpringOne2GX 2015 - thanks Pieter! So without further ado, let's take a look at some of this week's selection including a LOT of content from SpringOne2GX, including..

• ..Juergen Holler and Stephane Nicoll's talk presenting the updates to Spring framework 4.2
• ..the SpringOne2GX day 1 keynote featuring James Watters, Dr. David Syer, Scott Frederick, Juergen Hoeller and yours truly
• ..the SpringOne2GX day 2 keynote featuring Guillaume LaForge, Graeme Rocher, Dr. David Syer, Mark Fisher, Scott Frederick and yours truly
• ..the talk that Spring Boot and Spring Cloud co-founder Dr. Dave Syer and I, aided by a VERY gracious guest appearance by Spring creator and hero Dr. Rod Johnson, gave introducing Spring Cloud (I've never been so privileged as I was to be a part of this talk and I truly…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Krakow, Poland, for JDD and then it's off to St. Petersburg, Russia for the Joker conference!

We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• After an extensive gestation period, one of our mad scientists Andy Wilkinson just announced the first GA release of the Spring REST Docs project which makes it easy to pull together automatic and human-augmented API documentation based on the tests used to exercise the APIs under test. Spring REST Docs has become a runaway success and it's definitely worth your time.
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just published a nice blog on the powerful local Spring Boot applications feature in STS
• Dr. Mark Pollack just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3M1 which…

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

• I love the new Spring Initializr!
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced STS 3.7.1
• Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller has put together a lovely post that speaks to how to read claimed Java EE 7 proliferation
• Jaime Lopez - who was in some of my talks at Spring I/O in Barcelona, Spain, earlier this year - wrote an amazing introduction to Spring Boot - check it out!
• This blog nicely introduces using Spring's AbstractFeedView, powered by the ROME RSS and Atom library, to build feeds for a web application
• Want to run Spring Boot on the Glassfish-powered Payara Micro?
• Hey, the ProgrammingFree YouTube video channel has a nice post …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! To those of you reading from the US, let me be the first to wish you a very happy national coffee day! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• have you been checking out the Annotated Spring site? It's wonderful! Packed with easily digsted screencasts on getting started with Spring (sort of like the Rails Casts of yore)
• our pal Greg Turnquist is at it again, with part 3 of his epic React.js and Spring Data REST tutorial
• not one to relax, Greg also posted an awesome new guide on building CRUD applications with Vaadin and Spring Boot
• Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg has just announced Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3 M3
• Spring Integration Java Config DSL lead Artem Bilan just announced the 1.1 GA release! This is a huge…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week, fresh after an incredible SpringOne2GX 2015, I'm.. a little burnt if I'm honest! :D BUT, Spring endures and I'm this week in Amsterdam with our pal Martin Deinum helping a large group of developers make the cloud native journey with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry.

• Spring Boot co-lead Phillip Webb announced that Spring Boot 1.2.6 is now available!. Also interesting: this release was done live on stage at SpringOne2GX 2015! (Thanks JFrog!)
• our pal Matti Tahvonen has just posted guest blog on the Spring IO blog on how to use the recently 1.0 Spring Boot & Vaadin integration
• the first Spring Cloud Brixton milestone is now available complete with support for Zookeeper Discovery, Consul Discovery, Lattice Discovery, cluster leadership election and locks, and distributed tracing support
• Niklas Heidloff has put together a post on deploying a Spring Boot application to Bluemix using Docker in 20 minutes…