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It feels like SpringOne Platform was only yesterday, and I'm so excited by what's coming in September! It’s yet another excuse to chat, exchange, share, have a drink, and enjoy quality time with the Spring and Reactor communities, contributors and users alike.

I'll tell you a secret: as the project Reactor lead, this is one of my favorite places to capture amazing feedback and translate it into pull requests. I like spending hours replaying the software history with folks, talking about efficient distributed systems (or "microservices") because--Bingo! Reactive is all about these…

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at Spring Cloud Function (which lets you write serverless functions that run on your favorite function-as-a-service provider) and Project Riff, the new open-source function-as-a-service platform from Pivotal.

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just returned from a month of travel on Saturday, and on Sunday I was off to Denver, CO, for the epic SpringOne Tour Denver show. Now, I'm off to begin a 10 day tour of Kyiv, Ukraine (JEEConf); Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Barcelona, Spain (Spring I/O). I hope to see you around! (@starbuxman)

We've got a ton of good stuff to look at today so let's get to it!

• Check out this Micrometer extravaganza webinar from Micrometer lead Jon Schneider
• I love this new guide on building Spring Boot applications with Kotlin
• Do you want to generate Spring REST Docs from Spring Cloud Contract DSLs? Check out how to specify a proper base class here
• Brian McClain has a nice post on speeding software development using build pipelines and Concourse CI
• Christoph Stroble has debuted transaction support in Spring Data MongoDB's reactive module. Take a look!
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has also debuted the new reactive Spring Security OAuth support in 5.1.0.M1…

For 2 years, we have introduced Kotlin support in Spring projects (Framework, Boot, Data) and published various blog posts, sample projects, slides and documentation. Today, we are publishing an opinionated tutorial intended to summarize in a single place how to build a Spring Boot web application in Kotlin leveraging these features and following best practices: https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/spring-boot-kotlin/

Topics covered are:

• How to create a Spring Boot 2 project in Kotlin
• Understanding the build configuration
• Testing with JUnit 5: integration tests, @WebMvcTest + mocking
• Persistence with JPA and data classes
• Creating your own extensions
• Rendering web pages with Mustache
• HTTP API with @RestController
• Configuration properties
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speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we'll look at the new OAuth client support in Spring Security 5.

The following CVEs have been published today:

• CVE-2018-1257 for Spring Framework 5.0.6, 4.3.17.
• CVE-2018-1258 for Spring Security 5.0.5.
• CVE-2018-1259 for Spring Data Ingalls SR12, Kay SR7.
• CVE-2018-1260 for Spring Security OAuth 2.3.3, 2.2.2, 2.1.2, 2.0.15.
• CVE-2018-1261 for Spring Integration “Zip” extension 1.0.1.

Please, review the information in the CVE reports and upgrade immediately.

Spring Boot Users: Spring Boot 2.0.2 and 1.5.13, released earlier today, contain the fixes for the above vulnerabilities.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Manchester, UK, for an appearance at the Manchester JUG and then it's off to London, UK, for some customer visits and the epic Devoxx UK event. This time next week I'll be in Denver, USA, for the SpringOne Tour event. If you're in any of these places, as usual, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi (@starbuxman)

• Missed an installment of This Week in Spring? Well, have no fear there's now a monthly aggregation of the weekly aggregation! Here's the April edition
• Dormain Drewitz swoops in for the kill with this epic announcement: Pivotal and Confluent are teaming up to make Pivotal's Kubernetes environment, PKS, the best place to run Confluent Kafka
• Spring Framework luminary Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Framework .3.17 and 5.0.6
• Spring Data legend Mark Paluch just announced the release of Spring Data Ingalls SR12 and Kay SR7. These releases are, as usual, packed with new releases!
• Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella has just announced Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.RELEASE…

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Micrometer metrics collection and publication facade. Micrometer is a new project from Pivotal that underpins the Actuator metrics endpoint in Spring Boot 2.0.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In the last week I went from Germany (for JAXON) to Linz, Austria (for DevOne) and Vienna, Austria (for a meetup) and now I'm in Melbourne, Australia (after a 10 hour stopover in Bangkok, Thailand), for the VOXXED Melbourne event. As usual, if you're around I'd love to hear from you!

Without further ado, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Pivotal just turned 5! Happy birthday to us!
• Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter has just announced Spring Cloud Finchley RC1. The new release is packed with all sorts of new stuff and represents one of hopefully the final releases before Spring Cloud Finchley before it's GA
• Hi Spring fans! In last week's installment of Spring Tips I looked at how to extricate process state - valuable for coordinating long running or mutli-actor processes - from business logic with Spring Statemachine
• the RabbitMQ 3.7.5-beta2 is now available.
• I really like this Chinese-language post on whether Spring Boot and Spring Cloud …