The 12th Service Release for Californium is out. As per tradition, it fixes several issues and bring improvements all around.

The release is available on your preferred maven central repository.

Change logs and release notes:

• reactor-core 3.2.12.RELEASE
• reactor-netty 0.8.12.RELEASE

Bismuth EOL

With Dysprosium-RELEASE, our reactor-core 3.1.x and reactor-netty 0.7.x lines will not receive further patches. We encourage our users to update to Californium releases trains, which match Spring Boot 2.1.x and Spring Framework 5.1.x.

If you already are using Spring Boot 2.2.x and Spring Framework 5.2.x, you will be required to use Dysprosium including reactor-core 3.3.x and reactor-netty 0.9.x…

Oh emm geee y'all! We just released Spring Framework 5.2, complete with new RSocket support, and a slew of projects have followed suit in the intervening... day! I expect we'll see more soon, followed not too far behind by Spring Boot! And, of course, next week is the biggest week in all of Springdom every week: SpringOne Platform 2019!

I can't wait to get there, but first I'm off to Taipei for the JCCConf. THere's a ton to get to let's dive right in!

• Spring HATEOAS 1.0.0.RELEASE is released!
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.1.0.M2 Released
• Spring Data Lovelace SR11 released
• Spring Framework 5.2 goes GA
• Spring REST Docs 2.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 5.1.10 available now
• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and Jetbrains Developer Advocate Mala Gupta
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.2.0.M3 Released
• How to configure RSocket security in a Spring Boot application with Spring Security - Stack Overflow
• twitter.com
• https://twitter.com/springcentral/status/1178773296839565312
• Reactive programming with Neo4j - Hantsy - Medium
• …

Dear Spring community, we’re proud to announce the general availability of Spring HATEOAS 1.0.0.

Here’s the summary:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.2.0.RELEASE.

• Upgrade to Reactor Dysprosium-RELEASE.

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.10.0.

• Clarify expected behaviour around EntityLinks when using Spring WebFlux.

• Fix i18n support to work in broader scenarios.

• Update documentation to show how to create an ALPS serving controller for profile purposes.

• Fix example in docs to reflect requirement for _prompt for property I18N.

• Update reference docs to reflect new APIs, SPIs, and package structures.

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Hi Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow Java Champion, industry legend, New Delhi JUG leader, author of several books on Java and Java certification, teacher, and @Jetbrains Developer Advocate Mala Gupta (@eMalaGupta) about @Java, learning new features in Java, and more.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, a weekly roundup where I get to swim through the great content in the ecosystem and learn things and hopefully share interesting tidbits with you all. I mark my calendar by the number of This Week in Springs, so imagine my elation to realize looking at the calendar that we're really close to the epic SpringOne Platform 2019! I can't believe it!

The event takes place soon - October 7–10, 2019 - in Austin, Texas. That's just around the corner, but I've still got a few places to get to. I'm in Madrid, Spain, for the epic…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Manning's The Java Module System author Nicolai Parlog (@nipafx) about Java modularity.

• Nicolai Parlog on Twitter: @nipfax
• NIcolai's new book, Manning's The Java Module System

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring - and what a week it is! I'm at the epic annual eventapalooza that is Oracle CodeOne (formerly JavaOne). I just finished a talk today on reactive programming and I'll have another talk on Kotlin on Wednesday. Don't miss it!

Meanwhile, we've got a ton of things to get to this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.1.RELEASE & 1.2.0.M2 Available!
• If you listen to one podcast this week, listen to this latest and greatest installment of A Bootiful Podcast with Spring Framework co-founder, and lead, Juergen Hoeller on Spring Framework 5.2, open-source, deciding the themes for a new release, his legendary journey as lead of Spring Framework, and more.
• Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR3 Released
• Spring Vault 2.2 M1 available now
• Check out Reactor teammate Simon Basle's talk on RSocket, from the epic JavaZone 2019 event last week
• The Spring Initializr - start dot spring dot io - now supports dark mode…

In response to our nohttp announcement, Maven Central’s announcement, and JFrog’s announcement, beginning January 15 2020, Spring’s Maven Repository will no longer support HTTP. More concretely, http://repo.spring.io will not respond to requests. Users will need to ensure that they are using https://repo.spring.io

We are not going to redirect from http to https because it perpetuates the vulnerability. When the first request is made over http, a man in the middle (MITM) can prevent the redirect and replace the response with a malicious payload. Users that continue to use http will continue to…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra-special, extra-long installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this episode, I talk to Spring Framework lead and #2 co-founder of Spring itself, the one, the only, the amazing Juergen Hoeller. We talk about his tenure as the longest and most prolific contributor to Spring; designing clean code; the early days of Spring the project; new features in Spring Framework 5.2; the role of Kotlin, Project Loom, Graal in the Spring ecosystem; Spring's role in the ecosystem; Java's place and possibilities; and so much more.

• Juergen on Twitter
• Spring Framework on Github
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