At long last, it is my distinct pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.0.0.RELEASE!

The list of people to thank is long.

First, to Dr. Mark Pollack for your feedback real early on in the beginning of the project.

To Mr. Josh Long for sitting with me for 2 hours after midnight during S1P-2018 to give me feedback on using Apache Geode with Spring Boot.

To Mr. Phil Webb, and the entire Spring Boot ream, for providing guidance.

To the few community members who contributed PRs.

And finally, to everyone else for your support and patience while…

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire/PCC (SBDG) 1.1.0.M1.

Bits (org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter:1.1.0.M1) are available in the Spring libs-milestone repository.

What’s New

The SBDG 1.1 Milestone 1 (M1) release includes:

• Rebases SBDG on Spring Framework 5.1, Spring Boot 2.1, Spring Data Lovelace and Spring Session 2.1.

• Rebases SBDG on Apache Geode 1.6.0 and Pivotal GemFire 9.5.3.

For a complete list of changes, see the changelog.

What’s Next

SBDG 1.1 M2 will include dedicated support for In-line Caching, the second caching pattern in our 3 separate caching patters [Look-Aside, Inline, Near…

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.0.0.RC2.

I would like to send a special shoutout to the Spring Boot team for providing invaluable feedback on this project. Indeed, without Spring Boot and the fine efforts of the Boot team, SBDG would not be possible. So, thank you Boot team!

After incorporating the feedback, I decided to postpone the final GA and introduce 1 more release candidate. Final 1.0 GA is (tentatively) scheduled for Monday, May 6th.

The bits (org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter:1.0.0.RC2) are available in the Spring libs-milestone…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.1.2. We want to thank Guillaume Berche for his significant contributions to this release and to the project overall. This is a maintenance release that incorporates several updates and improvements, including the following:

• Continued support for Open Service Broker API v2.14.
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.0.9.RELEASE and Spring Framework 5.0.13.RELEASE
• Fix compatibility issue with Spring Boot DevTools
• Allow nulls in optional Boolean fields and no longer set default values
• Use valid JSON schema examples
• Fix JSON serialization of model objects for use by OSB clients
• Fix JSON schema not properly mapping to arrays
• Add property binding support for CloudFoundry service plan metadata
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We are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.0.0. This release introduces a significant shift from imperative to reactive APIs in order to support the new reactive-based web framework, Spring WebFlux. v3.0.0 was developed in parallel with v2.1.x and has feature parity with v2.1.2. Looking forward, all new features will only be added to the 3.x releases.

New features available in v3.0.0:

• Continue support for Open Service Broker API v2.14.
• Support Spring Boot 2.1 and Spring Framework 5.1
• Introduce support for Spring WebFlux via a new Reactive API (based on Project Reactor)
• Continue support for Spring MVC
• Rename the Spring Boot starter because it now supports both Spring web frameworks
• Introduce several reactive life cycle hooks for performing additional operations
…

I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Batch 4.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

The major feature of this release is the addition of batch metrics with Micrometer.

Batch Metrics with Micrometer

This release introduces a new feature that lets you monitor your batch jobs by using Micrometer. By default, Spring Batch collects metrics (such as job duration, step duration, item read and write throughput, and others) and registers them in Micrometer's global metrics registry under the spring.batch prefix. These metrics can be sent to any monitoring system supported by…

NOTE: This is a guest post from our friends at Alibaba.

Hi! Today, we’re very excited to announce that the 0.9.0, 0.2.2, and 0.1.2 releases of Spring Cloud Alibaba are now available.

Release Highlight

Included in this GA are 3 new releases:

• Release 0.9.0: Compatible with Spring Cloud Greenwich
• Release 0.2.2: Compatible with Spring Cloud Finchley
• Release 0.1.2: Compatible with Spring Cloud Edgware

Four new modules were added to all three releases:

• spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel-zuul
• spring-cloud-alibaba-seata
• spring-cloud-alibaba-dubbo (not available in Release 0.1.2)
• spring-cloud-alibaba-sms
…

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of a 2.1.0 M1 milestone-release. Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

What’s new?

SCDF Helm Chart and Apache Kafka

With continued interest from the community, as of v2.0.2, we have now added support to toggle between RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka when using SCDF’s helm chart. Though the chart is in the PR status in Helm repository, you could still try it out and give us feedback.

Docker Compose and Apache Kafka

To continue with the same trend in regards to Apache Kafka, along with regular Apache Kafka binder properties, we have now also added support for Kafka Streams binder properties; likewise, we have switched to use the official Confluent’s Docker image as part of the Docker Compose getting-started experience…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.2.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) performance: additional performance and memory footprint improvements to symbol indexing, now eats less memory and is faster while doing the initial indexing run
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist for bean types in Spring XML config files
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist for property names in Spring XML config files
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist for bean references in property definitions in Spring XML config files (very rough early cut, needs a lot more work on proposal content, number of proposals, and sorting)
• (Eclipse) fixed: empty property values in custom properties not set when launching boot apps (#275…