On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the 2020.0.4 release of Spring Cloud is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. 2020.0.4 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.4.x and 2.5.x.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0.4 release

Spring Cloud Commons

• Allow passing group while creating reactive circuit breaker (#994 )

Spring Cloud Config

• Return Boolean and Integer Properties when using JDBC backend ( #1952 )
• Provide the git username/password at run time(dynamically) ( #1896 )
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This is the second article of a series about how to tackle various challenges you might encounter when using Spring Data JDBC. The series consists of

1. Spring Data JDBC - How to use custom ID generation.

2. Spring Data JDBC - How do I make bidirectional relationships? (this article).

3. Spring Data JDBC - How do I implement caching?

4. Spring Data JDBC - How Can I Do a Partial Update of an Aggregate Root?

If you are new to Spring Data JDBC, you should start by reading its introduction and this article, which explains the relevance of aggregates in the context of Spring Data JDBC. Trust me, it…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, it's been another crazy awesome, and jam-packed week in Spring, so we've got a ton of stuff to get to and so very little time in which to do it. Andiamo!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Mark Pollack on Physics, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Data, Spring.NET, Spring XD, and so much more
• Changing Spring Boot packaging to WAR and deploying to Tomcat and Jetty
• Discover Lenovo Innovation at VMworld: Smarter Technology for All
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• In June, Okta's Matt Raible, Brian Demers and I did a Twitch stream to figure out how to make the Okta Spring Boot starter work with Spring Native. We succeeded! However, it wasn't easy. Watch our trials and tribulations in this video.
• Check out this massive…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to the one, the only, the amazing and inimitable Dr. Mark Pollack (@MarkPollack) about physics, Spring.NET, Spring Data, Spring XD, Spring Cloud Data Flow, and so much more!

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I'm joined by teammates Tiffany Jernigan and Mario Gray as we recap some of our favorite talks from the just-finished SpringOne 2021 event! Did you miss the show? (why)? Fret not: we'll look at some of our favorite moments from SpringOne 2021!

Hi, Spring fans! It's September 14th! I can't believe it. I know this is a common refrain on my weekly posts, but can you believe it's already nearly Fall and Winter? What is happening?? How'd we get here so quickly?

Anyway, how are you doin'? I'm doing alright! It's been kinda a crazy week. I was in the studio all day and some of the night yesterday filming a new Livelessons video that I can't wait for y'all to see. (But be forewarned: there will be .YAML!)

Then, at 3am my time, I did a presentation for the Japanese Java User Group. This would be one thing in of itself, but what made this special for me was that I was supposed to appear at the JJUG six weeks ago. Yes, that six weeks ago. The same six weeks ago when I was convalescing with COVID-19, six weeks ago. Needless to say (but I will!), when one is sick with the virus, they sleep. So I did. A lot. And I ended up accidentally sleeping through my appearance. And they graciously, empathetically, and kindly agreed to reschedule a week (or two? It's all a blur to me) later. Anyway, I also slept through that one!! Ugh! I was and am so embarrassed! I still am…

It has been a while since Spring Framework 5.3 was released. One of the features in that release was a major overhaul of our Reactive Multipart support. In this blog post, we share some of the knowledge learned while working on this feature. Specifically, we focus on finding a token within a stream of byte buffers.

Multipart Form Data

Whenever you upload a file, your browser sends it — and other fields in the form — to the server as a multipart/form-data message. The exact format of these messages is described in RFC 7578. If you submit a simple form with a single text field called foo and a file selector called file, the multipart/form-data…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuman) talks about pumpkin spice lattes, COVID, labor day, and then gets to talk to Spring Security engineer Josh Cummings (@jzheaux)

This is the first article of a series about how to tackle various challenges you might encounter when using Spring Data JDBC. The series consists of

1. Spring Data JDBC - How to use custom ID generation. (this article).

2. Spring Data JDBC - How do I make bidirectional relationships?

3. Spring Data JDBC - How do I implement caching?

4. Spring Data JDBC - How Can I Do a Partial Update of an Aggregate Root?

If you are new to Spring Data JDBC, you should start by reading its introduction and this article, which explains the relevance of aggregates in the context of Spring Data JDBC. Trust me, it is…