It's my pleasure to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-RC1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository.

This release is the first to adopt a new alphabetical versioning scheme similar to those already used by Spring Cloud and Spring Data. The theme for the Platform's versions is world cities.

The Athens release upgrades the versions of a number of projects:

• Spring Framework 4.3
• Spring AMQP 1.6
• Spring Boot 1.4
• Spring Data Hopper
• Spring Hateoas 0.20
• Spring Integration 4.3
• Spring LDAP 2.1
• Spring REST Docs 1.1
• Spring Security 4.1
• Spring Session 1.2
• Spring Web Services 2.3

The…

As Juergen mentioned in his Spring Framework 5 M1 release announcement our Spring Reactive initiative has been merged into Spring Framework proper preserving all contributions and its full history over more than a year.

What is it?

In a nutshell reactive programming is about non-blocking, event-driven applications that scale with a small number of threads with backpressure as a key ingredient that aims to ensure producers do not overwhelm consumers. The Reactive Streams specification (also adopted in Java 9) enables the ability to communicate demand across layers and libraries from different…

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm mostly in San Francisco and Saint Louis, busily preparing for the big event next week!

This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there's so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year's SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It's an amazing time to build applications, and SpringOne Platform is in a unique position to capture the larger discussion: why do we #devops, #cloud, #agile, or #microservice? Join the discussion August 1-…

On behalf of the Spring Cloud team it is my pleasure to announce the 1.0.0.M1 release of the new Spring Cloud project called Spring Cloud Contract. You can grab it from the Spring’s milestone repository or even better - go to start.spring.io and pick it from there.

Spring Cloud Contract

The microservice approach has plenty of benefits but also introduces complexity. This is an inevitable result of working with distributed systems: with increasing complexity inevitably more questions are posed. In this article we show how to test microservices and create a better API by using the Consumer…

A new Spring Web Flow 2.4.4 maintenance release is now available for download or use from Maven and Gradle builds. This release extends compatibility to Hibernate 5.2 and also includes several mainly JSF related fixes.

In this article we continue the series on Reactive Programming, and the focus is less on learning the basic APIs and more on more concrete use cases and writing code that actually does something useful. We will see how Reactive is a useful abstraction for concurrent programming, but also that it has some very low level features that we should learn to treat with respect and caution. If we start to use these features to their full potential we can take control of layers in our application that previously were invisible, hidden by containers, platforms and frameworks.

Bridging from Blocking to…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I am in Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio, and Los Angeles and San Francisco, California talking to customers and doing meetups.

This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there's so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year's SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It's an amazing time to build applications, and SpringOne Platform is in a unique position to capture the larger discussion: why do we #devops, #cloud, #agile, or #microservice…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Dublin, Ireland and London, UK, and Boston, Massachusetts, giving open workshops at Pivotal Dublin and London and speaking to local customers. It's been a fun week and there's a lot to cover! So, let's get to it!

This is my favorite time of year! As we lead to SpringOne Platform, there's so much good stuff being released that one can hardly keep up! I am really looking forward to this year's SpringOne Platform show, coming in early August. It's an amazing time to build applications, and SpringOne Platform is in a unique…

Spring Framework 4.3.1 and Spring Security 4.1.1 provide fixes for CVE-2016-5007 "Spring Security / MVC Path Matching Inconsistency".

Applications using Spring Security and Spring MVC should upgrade to Spring Security 4.1.1+ and Spring Framework 4.3.1+ and use the MvcRequestMatcher.

Additional details and further mitigations can be found in CVE-2016-5007.