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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 are thankful for you.

We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate of the Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown release train - Fishtown.RC2/2.1.0.RC2.

Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown 2.1.0.RC2 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

As a follow up to 2.0.0.RC2, this release primarily encompasses minor enhancements and bug fixes.
As it stands now this should be the final Release Candidate before General Availability release 2.0.0.RELEASE in several weeks.

NOTE:
If the applications are created from Spring Initializr, they need to add this BOM snippet in maven dependency management before the spring-cloud BOM declaration, otherwise you’ll end up with the latest snapshot:

<dependency>
           <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
           <artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-dependencies</artifactId>
           <version>Fishtown.RC2</version>
           <type>pom</type>
           <scope>import</scope>
</dependency>

We are pleased to announce the second Release Candidate of the Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.RC2.

Individual modules of Spring Cloud Function 2.0.0.RC2 are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

As a follow up to 2.0.0.RC1, this release primarily encompasses minor enhancements and bug fixes.
As it stands now this should be the final Release Candidate before General Availability release 2.0.0.RELEASE in several weeks.

How can you help?

If you’re interested in helping out, check out the “ideal for contribution” tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-cloud-function tag.

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 for details
• The Spring Cloud team’s Spencer Gibb has opened up some issues on Github that are ideal for first-time contributors that are looking for an easy first contribution to Spring Cloud
• Atomist CEO and Spring founder Rod Johnson says that software delivery needs a framework just as much as application development does. Check out his Spring One Platform 2018 presentation on Atomist
• Vojtech Ruzicka’s got a nice post, Faster Development with Spring Boot DevTools
• Check out the prototype Microsoft SQL Server R2DBC implementation! Feel free to give it a try and of course feedback is welcome!
• The ArangoDB team just released the next version of the ArangoDB Spring Data integration, at v3.2.0, and added the brand new Spring Boot starter for all Spring enthusiasts
• Spring Boot ninja Madhura Bhave reminds us that the code for the Spring Initializr service has been moved to a separate git repisitory. Ironically, they forgot to add a .gitignore to that repository which wouldn’t have happened if they’d generated it using the Spring Initializr!
• Interesting talk: Spring-driven industrial IoT utilizing edge, fog, and cloud computing
• Spring Cloud Contract lead Marcin Grzejszczak has some good news: thanks to this pull-request, they’re bringing back Apache Camel support to Spring Cloud Contract!
• This is an interesting graph of performance improvement for Lukas Krecan’s application after migration from Spring Boot 2.0 on JDK 10 to Spring Boot 2.1 on JDK 11
• Here are the slides to Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke’s talk at JAXcon 2018 on "building Better Moduliths – modulithic applications with Spring Boot
• Check out Dr. Nic’s series introducing all things KNative to help you explore serverless computing atop Kubernetes
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just added a “first-timers-only” issue to Spring Security. Ping them on the issue if you want to take it. They’re glad to help guide you through contributing to this issue.
• Sharad Gupta has a nice post on RabbitMQ publisher confirms and returns callback with/without the “mandatory” flag

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 to, so let’s get to it!