Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! If you're in the US, I hope you enjoyed your Labor Day weekend. I certainly did, gorging on the San Francisco sun and preparing for my O'Reilly online training for tomorrow, Bootiful Kotlin. I'm also busily preparing for the epic SpringOne Tour event in Istanbul, Turkey, customer visits in Atlanta, GA, and of course the epic tentpole SpringOne Platform event coming up later this month in Washington DC. If you're around, I sure hope to see you!

Well, let's get to it!

• In this fifth installment of my series looking at Spring Cloud GCP for Google Cloud, I introduce Google Cloud's support for runtime configuration and how to use it for Spring Cloud applications.
• Spring Data for Apache Geode John Blum has just announced that Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.M2!
• Spring Data for Apache Geode lead John Blum also just announced Spring Session for Apache Geode 2.0.5 and 2.1.0.M1
• Spring Security ninja Josh Cummings just announced the auto-configuration for Spring Security OAuth2 Boot Auto-config, 2.0.4 & 2.1.0.M2.
• Vick Kelkar has a nice post on …

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

On behalf of the team and the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.M2.

In summary this release brings the following improvements:

• Auto-configuration support for Spring Session when using Apache Geode, Pivotal GemFire or Pivotal Cloud Cache (PCC) to manage and store your Spring Boot application’s (HTTP) Session state.

• Recognition of spring.cache.type when using Spring’s Cache Abstraction auto-configured with Spring Boot.

• Additions and improvements to the documentation.

• Upgrades to Spring Framework 5.0.8.RELEASE, Spring Boot 2.0.4.RELEASE and Spring Data Kay-SR9

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On behalf of the team as well as the community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) 2.0.5.RELEASE (Apple) and 2.1.0.M1 (Bean).

SSDG 2.0.5.RELEASE is based on Spring Session 2.0.5.RELEASE, Spring Data Kay-SR9 and Spring Framework 5.0.8.RELEASE and is available in Maven Central.

SSDG 2.1.0.M1 is based on Spring Session 2.1.0.M2, Spring Data Lovelace-RC2 and Spring Framework 5.1.0.RC2 and is available from Spring libs-milestone.

Both releases bring with it a new way to configure Spring Session when using either Apache Geode or Pivotal GemFire, or even Pivotal Cloud Cache (PCC), to manage your Spring…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Chicago for the SpringOne Tour Chicago event. If you're around, then of course don't hesitate to say hi! Mostly, though, I've been busily preparing for the epic SpringOnePlatform event event being held in historic Washington DC in September. I hope to see you there!

We've got a lot to get to so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Services for PCF Turns 2.0, adds support for your Spring Boot 2 applications
• Nice article on the Pivotal blog on how to build modern data pipelines with Pivotal GemFire and Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown.M2 /2.1.0.M2 Release Announcement
• In this installment of my new eight part series introducing Spring Cloud GCP, Bootiful GCP, I look at globally consistent data access with Spring Cloud GCP and Google Cloud Spanner
• In this, the second of an eight part series looking at Spring Cloud GCP and Google Cloud GCP, I …

We are pleased to announce the second Milestone of the Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown release train - Fishtown.M2/2.1.0.M2.

Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown 2.1.0.M2 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository. The release notes include relevant information about version compatibility with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring AMQP, and Spring for Apache Kafka.

The following section provides a brief summary of features and improvements included in this release.

Notable Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Boot 2.1.0.M2 (now fully compatible with Spring Initializr)
• Reactor Californium M2

Spring Cloud…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…

Hi Spring fans! In this brief 8 part series we’re going to look at the Spring Cloud integration for Google Cloud Platform, called Spring Cloud GCP. Spring Cloud GCP represents a joint effort between Google and Pivotal that endeavors to provide a first class experience for Spring Cloud developers when using the Google Cloud Platform. Pivotal Cloud Foundry users will enjoy an even easier integration with the GCP service broker. I wrote these installments with input from Google Cloud Developer Advocate, and my buddy, Ray Tsang. You can also catch a walkthrough of Spring Cloud GCP in our Google…