Hi Spring fans and welcome to This Week in Spring from the premier JVM-language event SpringOne Platform 2017! There is a massive amount of stuff to cover, especially in light of SpringOne Platform, so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Finchley M5
• Spring Tools lead Martin Lippert just announced the first previews of Spring Tool Suite 4 and the new IDE-agnostic language servers. Also, I did a special (and early!) Spring Tip that looked at these topics.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 4.0.0
• Dr. Dave Syer has updated the Spring Security and Angular_ and Spring Boot and OAuth tutorials
• Spring ninja Greg Turnquist just announced Spring Session updates for Core, MongoDB, and Apache Geode.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow lead and co-founder Dr. Mark Pollack just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.3.0.M3.
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 2.1.0 and 1.3.2, and 2.0.2
• Spring Boot co-founder and lead Phil Webb just announced Spring Boot 2.0.M7
• Spring IO Platform lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring IO Platform Brussels SR6
• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 5.0.GA
• Last week, I looked at the new Spring Cloud Gateway project in a Spring Tips installment
• Spring Integration ninja just released Spring AMQP 1.7.5 and 2.0.1
• not one to rest on his laurels, Spring REST Docs Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring REST Docs 2.0.0
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 5.0
• Spring REST Docs lead Andy Wilkinson also announced Spring REST Docs 1.2.3
• Spring Boot ninja Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.5.9
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch pulled together an amazing look at binding applications to Hashicorp's Vault with Spring in Cloud Foundry