We are pleased to announce that the Spring Cloud Task 2.2.1.RELEASE is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's New?

The Spring Cloud Task 2.2.1.RELEASE is intended to be the version of the framework aligned with Spring Boot 2.2.x. Updates in this new version include:

• Update all dependencies.
• Micrometer support.
• Updated documentation with improved format.
• Task apps launched when using Spring Batch partitioning now have external-execution-id populated.

Let's walk through these updates in more detail.

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We are pleased to announce the release of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham (3.0.0.RELEASE) release train which is available as part of Spring Cloud Hoxton.RELEASE (imminent) and builds on Spring Boot 2.2.x and Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.RELEASE which was also just released.

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.RELEASE modules are available for use in the Maven Central repository.

Quick highlights:

As mentioned in these posts (demystified and simplified, functional and reactive, stream and spring Integration and event routing) preceding this announcement, the core theme of this release is functions!.

Historically, Spring Cloud Stream exposed annotation-based configuration model that required the user to be aware of and provide considerable amount of boilerplate information that could be otherwise easily inferred. You can read more details about it here…

We are pleased to announce the release of the Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.RELEASE, which is available as part of Spring Cloud Hoxton.RELEASE (imminent) and builds on Spring Boot 2.2.x.

Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.RELEASE modules are available for use in the Maven Central repository.

Quick highlights:

Transparent type conversion

This release introduces a refactored implementation of FunctionCatalog which amongst features such as function composition, support for reactive and non-reactive functions and more introduces transparent type conversion via MessageConverters provided by Spring Messaging…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long talks to Spring Security engineer Ria Stein. Ria is a new, but impactful, engineer on the Spring Security team working on things like Josh's beloved lambda DSL.

• Eleftheria Stein-Kousathana's page on the Spring team roster
• Ria just published a post on the Spring Security lambda DSL on which she worked. Definitely worth a read!

Overview of Lambda DSL

The release of Spring Security 5.2 includes enhancements to the DSL, which allow HTTP security to be configured using lambdas.

It is important to note that the prior configuration style is still valid and supported. The addition of lambdas is intended to provide more flexibility, but their usage is optional.

You may have seen this style of configuration in the Spring Security documentation or samples. Let us take a look at how a lambda configuration of HTTP security compares to the previous configuration style.

Configuration using lambdas

@EnableWebSecurity
public…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another of This Week in Spring. We've got a lot to cover, so let's get to it!

• Spring Data Moore SR2 and Lovelace SR13 available
• A Bootiful Podcast: RedHat / IBM's Sébastien Blanc on OAuth, KeyCloak, the French riviera, and more
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.1.0.RC1 Released
• Spring Security OAuth 2.4.0, 2.3.8 Released
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0 Roadmap Update
• Spring Cloud Hoxton.RC2 Released
• My three hour masterclass on all things Reactive Spring from Devoxx Belgium 2019 is now online
• This Month in RabbitMQ: November 2019
• Atos Delivers Faster Cloud Adoption with New SyntBots Accelerators for Pivotal Platform
• A nice post…

Hi Spring fans! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to RedHat / IBM's Sébastien Blanc (@sebi2706) on OAuth, KeyCloak, RivieraDev, the French Riviera, and more.

• Sébastien on Twitter
• KeyCloak
• Sébastien's legendary conference, RivieraDev

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I'm in Sydney, Australia, where I'll begin my tour of Australia, Singapore, Korea, China, and Japan for the Pivotal Summit. I'll also be doing a Reactive Tour (nested inside the Pivotal Summit Tour) while in China. if you're in any of the aforementioned countries, or in the Chinese cities of Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Beijing, and Shanghai, then don't hesitate to say hi! (@starbuxman)

Anyway my friends, we've got a lot to get to so let's get to it!

• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.3.RELEASE & 1.2.1.RELEASE Available
• A Bootiful Podcast: Michael Simons on Spring Boot, reactive Spring Data Neo4j, and more
• Spring Vault 2.2 goes GA
• Spring Boot 2.2.1 available now
• SpringOne Platform 2019 Editor's Picks
• Spring Integration Extensions Releases
• A nice talk over on InfoQ: Platforms Demystified: Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Eirini, and Knative
• Spring boot integration test example – HowToDoInJava
• Spring Cloud Gateway with OpenID Connect and Token Relay - JDriven Blog
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Boot Buch author, Spring community legend and an engineer working on the new, reactive Spring Data Neo4j project Michael Simons (@rotnroll666)

• Reactive Spring Data Neo4j
• Neo4j NODES 2019
• Michael's Twitter
• Michael's blog