Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment fo This Week in Spring! How're you all holding up? Me? I'm doing well, thanks. We've got a ton of stuff to get to so let's!

• Spring Cloud Function Native Images
• Spring Boot 2.3.0.RC1 available now
• Adrian Cole, founder or co-founder of Feign, JClouds, and Spring Cloud Sleuth and a major contributor to OpenZipkin
• Spring for Apache Kafka 2.5.0 Release Candidate
• Spring Integration 5.3 RC1, 5.2.6 & 5.1.10 Available
• Updates to Spring Versions
• Spring Tips: The Wavefront Observability Platform
• I loved this blog on CQRS with Spring Boot and Axon
• How many different ways does VMware Tanzu support hybrid-cloud on #AWS?
• How to visualize a Spring Integration graph with Neo4j?
• LettuceDriver: Lettuce 5.3.0.RELEASE is out now
• This Thursday! Learn how to configure @WavefrontHQ for @springboot Starter and explore free dashboards for instant visibility into your applications
• "Developers stick to a few rules and, in return, they can easily push their apps to Cloud Foundry with a single command (“cf push”) and know that it will run..."
• the Call for Paper for SpringOne 2020 is now up! Please send proposals!
• Get the latest updates in the Cloud Foundry community with this week's Technical Ecosystem roundup including a new Tutorial Hub and updates on #CFSummit going virtual.
• Join us today to review how VMware combined #Kubernetes and @cloudfoundry (and more) into a new enterprise application platform: Tanzu Application Service for Kubernetes, now a public beta. Sign up here
• SDKMAN 5.8.1 is rolling out, featuring the new sdk env command for switching SDKs per project. This is suepr useful: now with one tool you can easily switch Java versions and - even better - you can version control a file in your application that SDKMAN will know about and read to switch to another version of the JDK.
• A nice blog on Okta Developer: Secure Secrets With Spring Cloud Config and Vault
• Have you checked out our new CloudFoundry tutorial hub yet? We have a variety of free #cloudnative tutorials built by the community.
• Your favorites from the #cloudnative community are going on tour! Join us virtually for the #SpringOneTour for a mix of presentations, interactive demos, and panel discussions.
• Spring MVC: Building Web Sites & RESTful services
• Service Mesh Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg – The New Stack
• An oldie-but-a-goodie: Log Groups in Spring Boot 2.1
• Philipp Hauer just updated his blog about #MongoDB and #Kotlin. It now also describes a great feature that was added to Spring Data
• How Our Customers Are Using Modern Apps to Help Their Communities through COVID-19
• Want to learn all about Kubernetes? Check out KubeAcademy, provided for free by VMWare
• The April update of Java on VS Code is out. This update brings you more performance boost, Java 14 support, semantic highlighting, refactoring preview, and some usability improvements.
• Check out this early access build to project Loom
• Check out the early-access release of Mark Heckler's Spring Boot Book!
• "On the Spring PetClinic application, these improvements have improved startup time by a few hundred milliseconds."
• China's largest Java User Group is presenting a live broadcast series on Spring. I spoke on April 30th, and there are some more interesting talks coming up - don't miss them!
• Why are the curly braces required for a minimal record declaration in Java 14?