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There's some interesting stuff this week so, without further ado...

• Spring Framework 5.2.7 and 5.1.16 available now
• Migrating Spring Boot's Build to Gradle
• A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes Release SIG Tim Pepper
• Just curious, how do you run your Spring Boot application? Interesting thread
• VMware: A Founding Member of GitHub's New Security Lab
• Use Spring Data JDBC with Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Docs
• RabbitMQ will be migrating to Mozilla Public License 2.0 in the upcoming month(s)
• An interesting article on virtual threads use of preemptive scheduling
• Introduction to event-driven microservices with Spring Cloud Stream – Piotr's TechBlog
• Great Twitter thread by Sergi Almar: …

We made a fairly significant change to Spring Boot in 2.3.0.M1. It was the first release of the project to be built with Gradle rather than Maven. A thread on Twitter about the migration had a number of people asking why we switched and the benefits, if any, that we’d seen. This blog post aims to answer those questions.

Each project in the Spring portfolio is run in a fairly autonomous manner. We strive for consistency where our users will see it most – API design, for example – but choose the tools that best meet the needs of the project for things that are less visible. One example of this…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Tim Pepper (@pythomit) from VMware's Open Source Technology Center about Kubernetes and his role on the Kubernetes Release SIG.

Hi, Spring fans. We've got a ton of stuff to cover this week so let's get to it.

• Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR6, Hoxton.SR5 and 2020.0.0-M2 (aka Ilford) are Available
• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Malini Bhandaru on EdgeX and the opportunities for developers in the IoT space
• Spring Security OAuth 2.5.0 Released
• Spring Fu 0.3.0 and beyond
• Spring Tools 4.6.2 released
• Spring Batch Integration
• What's new in Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.0
• This Month in RabbitMQ
• A really nice thread about using Spring Boot, GraalVM native images, and Azure Functions
• Running Spring Boot GraalVM Native Images with Docker & Heroku
• Understanding Apache Maven - a great series by Chandra Guntur
• New blog post: Static Compilation of Java (and Spring Boot-based) Applications at Alibaba at Scale](https://medium.com/graalvm/static-compilation-of-java-applications-at-alibaba-at-scale-2944163c92e…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.3 (release notes), 5.2.5 (release notes), 5.1.11 (release notes) , 5.0.17 (release notes), 4.2.17 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dr. Malini Bhandaru about EdgeX and the opportunities for developers in the IoT space.

• Edge X
• Getting started
• The Open Retail Initiative

This article continues our blog post series on What’s new in Spring Data Neumann. Today’s installment explains New and Noteworthy in Spring Data Elasticsearch. This blog post was written by P.J. Meisch who maintains the Spring Data Elasticsearch module.

This release addresses more than 140 issues, with more than 30 bugs fixed.

Spring Data Elasticsearch now uses Elasticsearch 7, 7.6.2 in particular. Elasticsearch clusters running on 6.x versions are not supported anymore. The ElasticsearchTemplate class is deprecated as it uses the TransportClient to access Elasticsearch, which itself is deprecated since Elasticsearch version 7.+ Users should switch to ElasticsearchRestTemplate or ReactiveElasticsearchTemplate…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're things? My family and I spent the Memorial Day holiday weekend mostly playing video games and trying random new restaurants for delivery. Now, it's back to the grind and there are a ton of things to look at so let's get to it!

• Getting Started With RSocket: Testing Spring Boot Responders
• In last week's episode of a Bootiful Podcast, I talk to JAXB contributor, COM4j, Jenkins and Launchable founder Kohsuke Kawaguchi
• Migrating to Spring Data JDBC 2.0
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.5.1 Released
• What can Spring do? Find out
• An Overview of Apache Tomcat
• I'll be speaking at JPoint later this summer along with Cay Horstmann and James Gosling.
• didipostman/GenomeSequencing: Spring Batch as genome sequencing solution
• Senior Software Engineer - Spring, OSS Observability (Remote US or EMEA) in Multiple Locations | main
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If you've been following this series, by now, you'll have built a Spring Boot prototype that illustrates many of the features present in RSocket. This code isn’t production code, though; it's a prototype, a stepping stone on your RSocket journey. For production code, I'd expect all the usual quality assurance and testing rules to apply. So in this exercise, I'll show you how to write integration tests for RSocket responders, so you can get one step closer to production.

But first, what do I mean by integration testing?

Integration…