Hi Spring fans! How's things? I'm in Taipei, Taiwan, where I've presented at the local JUG and at the Cloud Native Forum. It's been a crazy good time on the ground eating delicious "stinky tofu" (that's its name!), trying to figure out the difference between traditional Chinese characters and so-called simplified Chinese characters used in China, and of course making tons of new friends.

In less than 24h I'll be on a plane winging my way back west where I'll join my family, and our newest addition, and our friends, and we'll celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday together. It's this time of year when I try to take stock of all the things for which I'm grateful and you know what, dear reader? Time and time again, I think of you, the community that makes Spring the best place to integrate and innovate. I am thankful for you. I'm sure I speak for the Spring team and Pivotal at large when I say, we…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just flown from Singapore and arrived in Hong Kong where I'll be meeting with some of our bigger customers here for a few days. Then, it's off to Taipei where, among other things, I'll be presenting at the Taipei JUG and talking to some customers. If you're in any of these places, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi (@starbuxman)!

With that, we've got a ton to get to so let's get to it!

• Need 24x7 ETL? Then Move to Cloud Native File Ingest with Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Spring Boot in a Container
• I love this list of resources related to RSocket from my friend Jacky at Alibaba
• Check out this new feature in Kotlin 1.3: enable progressive mode of the compiler (-progressive option) for a fast-track way to get fixes for compiler issues that affect language semantics
• JHipster v5.7.0 released!
• The Spring Boot Admin's Johannes Edmeier has just announced that Spring Boot Admin 2.1.1, with an important bugfix, has been released
• The Spring Cloud Greenwich release schedule has changed slightly. This week we will release M2, then RC1 will be Dec 6th, and finally RELEASE will be Dec 20th. As always, see the milestones in spring-cloud-release…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I'm in Tokyo, Japan, for the epic SpringOne Tour Japan event and then, it's off to Seoul, South Korea and then Singapore. I'm trying to keep busy! I delivered two 3+ hour long talks yesterday despite a blistering fever and today I presented at the SpringOne Tour and then, tonight, I had the honor of presenting at a joint meeting of the JJUG and JSUG here in Tokyo on Tuesday evening (starting about 7h ago).

If you're about, don't hesitate to say hi! I'd love to chat about anything and everything Pivotal and Spring with ya! Anyway, we've got a ton to get…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Paris, France, for the amazing Voxxed Microservices event. This has been quite the show and I'm grateful for having had the opportunity to be there. Now, as I write this, I'm preparing to go to Beijing, China, for the first leg in Asia of the SpringOne Tour show. I'll be in China, then Japan, then Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Los Angeles, Morocco, Seattle, Toronto, and then finally - in mid December - I'll return home to San Francisco. We've got a ton of things to look at this week so, without…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've just flown back from Canada and Russia where I was at the amazing Joker conference in St. Petersburg. I'm now in San Francisco (where I live!) for a couple of days to soak up the amazing atmosphere around Oracle CodeOne, reunited with the Java community and longtime friends. I'm so excited about the presentation that fellow Java Champion Trisha Gee and I are doing tomorrow at 11:30 am that introduces an end-to-end reactive and Spring-based application from JavaFX client to service. Do not miss this!

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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Toronto, Canada, where I've been speaking to customers and at a meetup, then it's off to St. Petersburg, Russia for the epic Joker conf 2018. As usual, we've got a ton to cover so let's get to it!

• Check out this new version of the legendary Spring Petclinic, based on the new Spring Data JDBC
• Spring Security OAuth 2.3.4, 2.2.3, 2.1.3, 2.0.16 Released
• Rossen Stoyanchev has just announced the publication, and resolution for, two CVEs affecting Spring - READ THIS!
• Spring Boot 2.0.6
• Spring Session Apple SR6 Released
• Spring Security 5.1.1, 5.0.9, and 4.2.9 Released
• Spring Boot 1.5.17
• Some nice posts here for the Spanish-language readers
• Spring Data Lovelace SR1, Kay SR11, and Ingalls SR16 released
• Spring Framework 5.1.1, 5.0.10 and 4.3.20 available now
• …

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in sunny San Francisco for the epic SpringOne Tour San Francisco event. I'm also heads down preparing for the rush of travel ahead of me. Starting on the 14th, I'll start four weeks of travel, bringing the message far-and-wide to Toronto, St. Petersburg, Brussels, San Francisco, Hartford, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, Hong Kong, and.. I forget.. but there's more! I'm so looking forward to seeing you all at each and everyone of those places!

I also loved this tweet from Pivotal today for me:

Josh we're working on putting a Spring signal on the roof. pic.twitter.com/OInXwcte6Y

— Pivotal (@pivotal) October 9, 2018

Anyway, there's SO MUCH to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.0.0.M1 released
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.1.0.M1 released
• This is pretty cool! we're excited to announce, along with Heroku and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, that the Cloud Natives Buildpacks technology was accepted int he CNCF!
• Hola mundo! Read Spanish? Know someone who does? You might appreciate this curated list of interesting reading, en Español!
• Happy Ada Lovelace day! As you know, we name each Spring Data release train after a prominent computer scientist. This one is named for Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, she was chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Once you're done reading more into this hero and this self described "poetical scientist", you might also read up on the new features our current Spring Data Lovelace release train…

Whew! What a week! I'm exhausted! I've been running around visting one customer after another this week and it's only Tuesday! My brain is still a smoldering hole from the craziness of last week's epic SpringOne Platform 2018 event in Washington DC, and needless to say there's a ton of new things to investigate and tons of videos to be available to the audience soon. This week is a wee bit more tame, so without further ado, let's get to it!

I don't know where you are in the world as you read this but I hope you'll join me 17:00 BST, for my appearance at the vJUG where I'll be looking at Bootiful Testing…

Hi Spring fans! What a crazy week in Spring it's been! I'm at SpringOne Platform 2018 soaking up all the exciting community events, interacting with people from around the planet who love Pivotal and love Spring! I just got asked to take a selfie with a woman from Vietnam while five miles from the show - at a local mall where I happened to be for a community dinner! It's wonderful that the Pivotal brings people of so many disparate cultures and places together.

Today, Wednesday 26th, 2018, was a doozie! There are so many wonderful things happening this week, of course, but today was a very…

It's been such a crazy SpringOne Platform 2018 and we literally just started! I don't even know where to begin! The show represents the convergence of the best and the brightest in the ecosystem. It's absolutely amazing all the people who want and love to be here.

From our friends in the ecosystem, we see people from all organizations. IBM, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft and Google are all here hoping to make their platform the most compelling place to run Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Spring-based workloads. It's great to see my friends from all these organizations! Friends like my friends Erin…