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.
• Heroku have updated their article on deploying Spring Boot applications to their PaaS
• The Mr. Haki blog has a great post on reloading Java classes using Spring Loaded
• The Mr. Haki blog has another post on reporting the applied auto-configuration with the Spring Boot Actuator
• Spring Cloud Dataflow product manager Sabby Anandan put together a nice post on the new Spring Cloud Dataflow
• Biju Kunjummen has a nice post on the rarely talked-about Spring Cloud Sidecar which lets other languages and technologies connect to Spring Cloud infrastructure
• Jakub Narloch put together a nice post on error handling Spring Cloud and Zuul