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
• Juergen Hoeller, Pivotal—Current and Future State of Java, SpringOne Platform 2018
• Nice whitepaper by Uli Homann, Distinguished Architect, Microsoft and Josh McKenty, Vice President & Field CTO, Pivotal on cloud flexibility
• https://twitter.com/springframework/status/1052293878559244288
• Jakub Pilimon put together a nice look at how Spring supports CQRS
• Wow! The Spring Boot project has almost 500 contributors!
• I love Richard Seroter's recent series on all the things you may not have been aware that Cloud Foundry could run
• Thymeleaf Spring Security integration 3.0.3 (with Spring Security 5 + WebFlux support)
• Are you interested in presenting? Bruno Souza, a legend in his own right, and I had a discussion on how to help people present. It's a bit meta. I hope it's useful. I would love to be made irrelevant :) The more people out there helping disseminate good, sound technology practice, the better! Want to give a talk? Do it! You know I'm always happy to support such initiatives, right? My DM's are open!
• Want to build upon the stack being used to power one of the largest e-commerce engines on the planet, Alibaba? They're using Spring Cloud! They've even adapted and open-sourced their proprietary infrastructure into a project called Nacos, which they introduce here
• There's also some really compelling new stuff in store for Flyway in the new Spring Boot! Check it out!
• Whew! Some good stuff coming to Spring Cloud Contract via this massive PR to Rest Assured submitted by the Spring Cloud Contract ninja Olga Maciaszek-Sharma
• Nice Spanish-language post on building CRUD and REST applications with Kotlin and Spring Boot
• I did an interview that has been translated into Russian - check it out!
• There is a ton of Spring-related content to come out of this Microsoft Ignite 2018 event - check it out!
• The Livelessons videos that Spring Security lead Rob Winch and I put together are coming soon! Check this page on Oct 25, 2018.
• Christoph Nahr has put together a nice post that, while not strictly speaking about Spring, will certainly serve the Spring user quite well: it looks at what's been removed in Java 11 (which, of course, you are already using, right?)
• The Okta Developer blog features a new post on build a mobile app with React Native and Spring Boot - check it out!
• This isn't, strictly speaking, a Spring related post but it's interesting: how to build Java runtime for non-modular applications using jlink in Java 9+.
• This post - on projections with Spring Data JPA - is quite handy / thoughtful. Check it out!
• Want to learn about reactive programming? Check out the code and slides to Rob Winch's epic Intro to Reactive Programming