Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another fun-filled and fantastic installment of This Week in Spring where we review the week that was in the Java ecosystem. It's been quite a week indeed. SOoo many new releases and so many interesting things going on in the larger Spring, Java, Azure, and VMware ecosystems, that we don't have a moment to waste so: onward!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér on his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, reactive work
• Ask the Java Architects Panel
• Azure + Spring Boot = Serverless - Q&A with Julien Dubois
• Azure in the Enterprise: Azure Object Storage Service and Spring Boot
• Intel’s VMworld Sessions Highlight Modernized Infrastructure from Edge to Cloud
• Java Language Futures - Mid 2020 Edition
• Keeping Your Java Applications Secure - Cryptographic Improvements and Best Practices
• Keynote - The Future of Java Is Now
• Microsoft Azure and VMware makes the path to the cloud easier
• Moving forward together with Dell Technologies and VMware at VMworld 2020
• Running JDK pre-submit testing on GitHub
• Spring Batch 4.3.0-RC1 available now!
• Spring Boot 2.1.17 available now
• Spring Boot 2.2.10 available now
• Spring Boot 2.3.4 available now
• Spring Boot 2.4.0.M3 available now
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode 1.1.10.RELEASE, 1.2.10.RELEASE, 1.3.4.RELEASE and 1.4.0-M3 available!
• Spring Data 2020.0.0 goes RC1
• Spring Data Neumann SR4, Moore SR10 and Lovelace SR20
• Spring Integration 5.4 Milestone 3 Available
• Spring REST Docs 2.0.5.RELEASE
• Spring Security SAML Extensions 1.x EOL on October 6, 2021
• Spring Session for Apache Geode 2.1.11.RELEASE, 2.2.5.RELEASE, 2.3.1.RELEASE & 2.4.0-RC1 available!
• Spring Tools 4.8.0 released
• Will it scale? Azure Spring Cloud for the win!
• Yugabyte - a unique distributed and NoSQL database - has a very promising Spring integratoin
• ZGC - What’s new in JDK 15