Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I'm doing alright! It's been raining cats and dogs here in San Francisco. California, the state where I live, dearly needs the rain, so it's a positive, I suppose. But it still feels miserable. Between the daylights savings time shortening the daylight significantly and the rain, it's a gloomy kind of day. At least there's a lot of good stuff to read! Let's dive right into it!

• Bootiful Podcast: Legend, Dutchess founder, Devoxx4Kids contributor, and fellow Java Champion Linda van der Pal
• Full Stack Java with React, Spring Boot, and JHipster
• Hello, Coherence — Bootiful Spring by Oracle's Gunnar Hillert, a legend.
• Check out the videos from the recent Reactive Summit. I was the emcee and the day two keynoter, along with my friend and Google's James Ward.
• Running Spring Boot Apps? Start Tracing with OpenTelemetry in Minutes!
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.0-RC1 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.8.4 and 2.9.1 Released
• …

In May 2020, we announced that the Spring Security OAuth (legacy) project will reach end-of-life in May 2022. The same end-of-life timeline applies to the Spring Boot 2 auto-configuration project.

We are now 6 months away from the EOL date, and the currently supported version branch is 2.5.x, which is limited to security fixes only.

We recently announced the release of Spring Authorization Server 0.2.0, which is the first officially supported production-ready version backed by our new support policy.

We encourage users to migrate their applications to Spring Authorization Server 0.2.0, as it…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dutchess founder, Devoxx4Kids Netherlands (@Devoxx4KidsNL) leader, inspiring person, and fellow Java Champion Linda van der Pal (@DuchessFounder).

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we'll continue our exploration of @Controllers, and look at HTTP APIs and SSE with Spring. This time, we'll use Spring Webflux.

The code is here: github.com/spring-tips/controllers

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I've been busy as all get out emceeing the Reactive Summit 2021 event (it's free and it's online!). The event has been awe-inspiring because there are so many amazing speakers from all walks of life present and speaking. Today, the conference welcomed professor Carl Hewitt, the creator of the Actor Paradigm, as its keynote. Then, figuring there was no topping that and figuring they could go for broke, they foolishly ( muahahah! ) asked me to do the day two keynote. So, I'll be doing tomorrow's keynote…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Paketo contributor Daniel Mikusa about buildpacks, Paketo, containers, UPX, and so much more

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, the first of a series, Josh Long looks at the venerable @Controller annotation and its use supporting Model 2 MVC-style web applications.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How are you?

I'm doing well, as always. I literally just wrapped up presenting a fun session at the Russian Joker conference all about Spring and GraphQL. I got a ton of great questions from an enthusiastic audience. Thanks so much for joining me, everyone. I've got to get to other meetings, though, so let's get this wonderful week in Spring out of the way!

• Spring Tips: refreshable configuration with Spring Cloud Bus, and the Spring Cloud Config Monitor
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to RabbitMQ and Weaveworks founder Alexis Richardson about RabbitMQ, Pivotal, Spring, Kubernetes, and FluxCD
• A great article that @Javinpaul linked me to: What is @PropertySource in Spring Framework?
• fellow Java Champion Andres Almiray has just released a very cool sample Spring Boot application demonstrating some features of the JReleaser project, which aims to make deploying artifacts as easy as possible.
• Want to learn Spring Boot? Check out …

The recently released Spring Boot 2.5.6 and 2.4.12 releases contain fixes for the following security vulnerabilities:

• CVE-2021-22096 for the Spring Framework
• CVE-2021-22047 for Spring Data REST
• CVE-2021-22097 for Spring AMQP

In addition, Spring Cloud OpenFeign has released versions 3.0.5 and 2.2.10, based on the same Spring Boot versions, and containing a fix for the following security vulnerability:

• CVE-2021-22044 for Spring Cloud OpenFeign

Please, review the reports and upgrade!