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 …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week In Spring. This week I'm in Los Angeles (warm!) talking to customers and then it's off to Chicago (not warm!). There's so much good stuff to cover this week so let's get to it!

• In PCF 2.0, the application runtime is now joined by an enterprise-grade Kubernetes service, called Pivotal Container Service, and a new Functions-as-a-Service offering, Pivotal Function Service. Pivotal's Jared Ruckle joins Jeff and Dormain for a look at PCF 2.0 in this new podcast
• Spring Cloud Sleuth now integrates with Brave and it's an exciting time for distributed tracing.
• Spring Cloud Vault lead Mark Paluch has integrated Spring Security with Spring Cloud Vault
• It's been a busy wek for the Spring Cloud Sleuth team! This commit makes Spring Cloud Sleuth OpenTracing-compatible
• Support for integrating Micrometer (think SLF4J, but for metrics) with Jersey 2 (a JAX-RS implementation) has just landed…

Aloha! This week I'm in sunny Honolulu for the first annual LavaOne conference. If you're not here, you should be! The show is amazing, enjoys 50% female to male audience attendance, the speakers are world-class (well, except yours truly, but don't tell them that..) and the location is pretty hard to beat!

That said, nothing gives me more pleasure than saddling up to a table with a laptop, some green tea, sunglasses and sunscreen lotion and checking in on the community. This week's been a heckuva week indeed! Lot's of great stuff so let's get to it!

• Ryan Baxter just announced Spring Cloud Edgware SR1 which contains updates for several modules
• Project Reactor team ninja Simon Baslé offers a look at Reactor 3.2.M1
• Vedran Pavić just announced Spring Session 2.0.0. Check it out - there are a ton of improvements.
• Spring ninja Greg Turnquist has put together a nice post introducing the support in Spring HATEOAS for the Affordances API
• There's now support for query-by-example in Spring Data Redis
• A friendly reminder that, going forward, the preferred way to integrate with the OpenZipkin project is to publish messages over RabbitMQ or Apache Kafka using the spring-cloud-starter-zipkin client…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to Germany where I'll be speaking at the Java User Group in Münster on Wednesday night. Then, it's off to Solingen for a Cloud Native day on the 12th (this Friday) where I'll be presenting all afternoon - register now! And, if you're closer to the Pacific ocean than the Atlantic ocean, join me next Monday in Hawaii and we'll talk about all things Spring at the very promising LavaOne conference.

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

• There's new support for auto-configuring the Reactor-based Cloud Foundry Java client in Spring Cloud. This is exciting for me because that Java client is such a powerful tool that takes so long to configure.
• There's a new guide on using Spring Cloud contract by community legend Erdem Günay.
• The Baeldung blog have a nice look at bootstrapping Hibernate 5 with Spring
• The first raft of Spring Days events have been announced! Do not miss these events in a city near you! I'll be there along with other Pivotal peeps. Join us.
• The Apigee Edge Service Broker 3.0 for Pivotal Cloud Foundry…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I hope you had a wonderful, safe and fruitful new year celebration.

This is the first roundup of the new year and so it is also the 7th year anniversary of my starting this column. Every Tuesday, without fail (come holiday, sick-day, flights or frights!), since the first week of January 2011, I've put together this roundup and it has been, and continues to be, an honor. As usual, I'm always happy to have feedback and suggestions from you, the most amazing community ever! Don't hesitate to reach me on Twitter (@starbuxman) or by email…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another, albeit very special, installment of This Week in Spring! This is the last installment before 2018 and so we'll take the opportunity to review, as we always do in the last installment of the year, this very exciting year in Spring and its ecosystem.

Let me, on behalf of the Spring and larger Pivotal team, to be the first to wish you and yours a heartfelt happy and safe New Year! Let's first look at some of the major trends that defined 2017. We've got a lot to cover!

• Spring Framework 5 and Reactive Programming - this year we released Spring Framework 5.0. This release is huge - packed to the gills with new features including support for Java EE 8, Java SE 9 and - of course - reactive programming based on Project Reactor and the fully-reactive new web runtime called Spring WebFlux. The web runtime supports a Spring MVC-like component model as well as a new handler model (called functional reactive endpoints) and a new, fully reactive HTTP client called WebClient. Spring Framework 5's reactive support, as impressive as it is, is only the beginning. Spring Framework 5.0 is the foundation for reactive data access support in Spring Data Kay, for reactive security integration in Spring Security 5.0 and for reactive messaging in Spring Cloud Stream. All of these will…