Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Nashville, TN, for a meetup presentation on Reactive Spring and then it's off to Kansas City, KS for a replay of the same talk. Both times I'll be joined by pal Mark Heckler. If you're in either of those cities, don't miss this!

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This week we have a truly massive good many things to look at so let's get started!

• Spring messaging and integration maestro Artem Bilan just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 2.0 M3. The new release includes, among other things, a new KafkaTransactionManager and according supportin the KakfaTemplate.
• Spring Session 2.0 M3 Released - Spring Security and Session ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Session 2.0.M3. This new release adds support for Spring WebFlux, and its WebSession and reactive programming in general.
• Not one to rest on his laurels, Christoph Strobl also announced the new release of Spring Data Kay RC1 and RC2…

Greetings Spring Community!

It is my pleasure to announce the first milestone release of both Spring Session Data Geode for Apache Geode and Spring Session Session Data GemFire for Pivotal GemFire.

Both artifacts can be downloaded from Spring’s libs-milestone Repository using Maven …​

  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.session</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-session-data-geode</artifactId>
    <version>2.0.0.M1</version>
  </dependency>

Or with Gradle…​

  compile 'org.springframework.session:spring-session-data-geode:2.0.0.M1'

To use Spring Session with Pivotal GemFire, just switch the artifact from spring-session-data-geode to spring-session-data-gemfire…

Dear Spring Community,

Spring Session MongoDB 2.0.0.M2 is released. It is based on:

• Spring Session 2.0.0.M3

• Spring Data Kay-RC2

• Reactor Bismuth-M3

• Spring 5.0.0.RC3

This is the first milestone with Reactor support, making it usable with Spring WebFlux.

In the meantime, you can get the bits today if you visit the project site, get the coordinates, and include the version number in your Spring Boot application.

Project Site | Reference | Help

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of Ingalls SR5 release.
It ships with over 40 issues fixed in total and is therefore a recommended upgrade for all users. For your convenience the service release is going to be picked up by the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.5.

The complete list of issues fixed can be found here.

Spring Data Ingalls SR5

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.5 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the availability of the first and second release candiate of Spring Data Kay. This release ships over 120 tickets fixed. The curated changelog can be found in our release wiki, the complete list of issues fixed can be found here. Due to a severe issue in RC1 we immediately issued RC2.

Notable changes

• Enhanced tooling support by adding @NonNullApi and @Nullable annotations in Spring Data Commons to be picked up by your favorite IDE.
• Fine-tuning of the fluent API for MongoDB including a reactive counterpart and aggregation support.
• Spring Data for Apache Geode joins the release train.
• RedisCache got overhauled and is now way easier to configure.
• Cassandra 3.0 driver upgrade and support for @Indexed and @SASI.
• Child document support for Spring Data for Apache Solr.
• A lot of internal cleanups.
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Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Istanbul, Turkey talking to customers and speaking at the Spring and Java meetups tonight. I hope you'll join me and we'll talk about cloud native Java! As usual, we've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Integration contributor Artem Bilan just announced Spring Integration 4.3.11. This release includes security updates as well as bug fixes.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.8, which is mainly a maintenance release and a bugfix release.
• Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll has announced Spring Framework 4.3.10 which is a maintenance release for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.5 maintenance release. It includes 25 fixes and improvements.
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Dalston SR2…

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Crete, Greece, for the epic JCrete un-conference and then it's off to Istanbul, Turkey for next week's visits with customers and for the Spring meetup. I hope you'll join me in Istanbul!

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced the Spring Integration Extension for Hazlecast 1.0.0.GA. This new release features mainly bug fixes and improvements. It also adds support distributed, clustered applications with implementations of HazelcastMessageStore, HazelcastLockRegistry, and HazelcastMetadataStore.
• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security OAuth 2.2.0.RC1. This new release includes improvements to the way JWT tokens and claim sets are handled. Do not miss the update!
• Want to profile Java applications on Cloud Foundry…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Kansas City, Kansas; and Phoenix, Arizona talking to customers and Pivotal partners about all things Spring and Cloud Foundry. If you're around don't hesitate to say hi!

We've got a lot to cover this week, so let's get started!

• Mark Fisher debuted the first look at Spring Cloud Function, an abstraction that brings the function-as-a-service paradigm to your Spring applications. This is a must-read!
• Spring (big-)Data ninja Thomas Risberg just announced Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.5.0 GA which mostly includes bugfixes and dependency updates.
• Spring Cloud co-founder just announced the first milestone of Spring Cloud Finchley. This release is the first to be based on the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0 baseline with one major new feature: a new microproxy called Spring Cloud Gateway which we see as a replacement for Zuul 1.
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.0 released…

Spring Cloud Function is a new project with the following high-level goals:

• Promote the implementation of business logic via functions.
• Decouple the development lifecycle of business logic from any specific runtime target so that the same code can run as a web endpoint, a stream processor, or a task.
• Support a uniform programming model across serverless providers, as well as the ability to run standalone (locally or in a PaaS).
• Enable Spring Boot features (auto-configuration, dependency injection, metrics) on serverless providers.

Just as Spring has always promoted a plain old java object (POJO) based programming model, Spring Cloud Function promotes a programming model based on plain old functions. By that we mean the core interfaces defined in the java.util.function package: Function, Consumer, and Supplier…