Dear Spring Community,

Hey!

I am happy to announce the 3.9.8 maintenance release of the Spring Tool Suite 3 (STS3).

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse 2019-03 release
• quick text search allows you to switch between modal and non-modal mode
• quick test search allows you to limit search scope to specific files
• new tab for running boot apps that show live data from the apps environment
• various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite 3: https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all
• Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.8 New & Noteworthy.
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On behalf of the Spring, Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire communities, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.0.0.M4.

Special appreciation goes out to @starbuxman for his invaluable feedback after SpringOne Platform 2018. And, if you have not seen Josh’s Spring Tip video on Apache, please check it out.

What’s New

Among a few minor updates, Milestone 4 adds the following new capabilities:

• Externalized configuration support with Spring Boot’s Configuration Processor and SBDG provided @ConfigurationProperties classes (Read here for more details). Inside STS or IJ Enterprise addition, developers will have the added convenience of auto-completion and content assist.

• GemFire/Geode nodes can now be named with the spring.application.name property.

• The GemFire/Geode Spring Boot starters now include Spring Shell as a runtime dependency, which is convenient when enabling and using GemFire/Geode’s management services.

• Provided a workaround to an issue in Spring Cloud Commons .

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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.0.1 GA of Data Flow. Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

This is a minor release with mostly bug fixes and documentation enhancements.

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Kubernetes deployment configuration for Skipper server is now backed by MySQL as the default database.

• Remove extraneous Spring Data Redis dependency to fix Spring Cloud Data Flow server health check.

• Improved Getting Started documentation.

• Bug fixes on Spring Cloud Data Flow and Spring Cloud Data Flow UI.

• All the out-of-the-box stream apps from the Documentation examples now use Einstein SR2.

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On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Boot 2.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 140 issues and pull requests.

Highlights of this first milestone include:

• Spring Data Moore M2
• Significantly faster binding of large numbers of configuration properties
• Opt-in support for lazy bean initialization (there will be more on this in a subsequent blog post)
• JMX is now disabled by default
• Numerous dependency upgrades
• Faster startup and lower memory footprint when using the Actuator
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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 1 (SR1) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Issues

Spring Cloud Stream

• Bug fixes

Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry

• Issues

Spring Cloud Commons

• Issues

Spring Cloud OpenFeign

• Added Spring Data pagable support
• Issues

Spring Cloud Task

• Bug fixes

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Issues

Spring Cloud Aws

• Logging and formatting changes
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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'm pleased to announce the availability of the second milestone of the Moore release train.

Notable changes include:

• Support for Kotlin Coroutines in Spring Data MongoDB, Cassandra and Redis.
• Querydsl support for reactive repositories.
• Range type support for derived repository query methods using between for Spring Data MongoDB & Cassandra.
• exists projection in Neo4j repositories.
• Reactive repositories for Spring Data Elasticsearch.
• Pivotal Gemfire and Apache Geode upgrades.
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 1.0 M1.
• ...and numerous features for the JDBC module like direct insert & update methods skipping the is new check.
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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.0 of Data Flow. Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Hand in hand is the 2.0 release of Spring Cloud Skipper. The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start if you want to use Skipper separately from Data Flow.

Here are the highlights for Data Flow

• Stream deployment always delegates to Skipper

• Single server that runs on all supported platforms

• Launch tasks against multiple platforms

• UI improvements

• Standardize on OAuth2 and OpenID Connect for Security

• Revamped metrics and monitoring of deployed applications

• Updated analytics using micrometer

• Database migration support

• Update to Boot 2.1

• Update internals to use JPA

• Task/Job Execution and Performance improvements

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Dear Spring community, we’re proud to announce the first milestone of Spring HATEOAS 1.0. Spring HATEOAS has been in development for almost seven years now. What started as tiny extension to Spring MVC became the foundation for Spring Data REST later on and has served as a fundamental building block for hypermedia based APIs in Spring MVC applications.

We received a lot of input for more advanced features from the community and eventually decided that it was time to integrate those into the library. Also, we gained a significant amount of experience using the library in the wild and thought we…

The java-cfenv library is a new library for accessing Cloud Foundry Services. For Spring Boot users, it extracts service credentials from the VCAP_SERVICES environment variable and sets well known Spring Boot auto-configuration properties.

You can find more about it in the 1.0 M1 release blog as well as the README.

In this release the following Cloud Foundry Services are supported

• Databases - DB2, MySQL, Oracle, Postgresql, SqlServer

• RabbitMQ

• Cassandra

• MongoDB

• Redis

• Pivotal Single Sign On

Of note, there is a new interface, CfEnvProcessor that simplifies what you need to write in order to provide integration with other Cloud Foundry services. The docs on supporting other services…