This article is part of a blog series that explores the newly redesigned Spring Cloud Stream applications based on Java Functions.

Here are all the previous parts of this blog series.

• Introducing Function Based Streaming Applications

• Function Composition with Streaming Applications

• How to Build a Supplier and Source Application

• How to Build a Consumer and Sink Application

• Build and Run a Simple Stream Application

• Case Study: HTTP Request Function and Processor

• Case Study: File Source and MongoDB Sink

• Case Study: Relational Database Source and File Sink

• Case Study: Remote File Ingest with Spring Cloud Data Flow

• Case Study: Aggregator Function and Processor

• Case Study: Elasticsearch sink

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Yes, we're going reactive!

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first release candidate of Spring Statemachine 3.0.0 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

Highlights of this release include:

• Relevant api's working with statemachine now have reactive methods.
• From a functional point of view this release is equivalent what's in 2.2.x, 2.3.x and 2.4.x branches apart from reactive changes.
• We've chosen to align with recently released Spring Boot 2.4.1.

Internally everything is basically working atop of reactive…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.1 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 59 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.7 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 35 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.12 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 51 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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Prologue

Uniformity of data across systems and platforms is a singular and noble purpose of Cloud Event specification. With its growing adoption, the hope is that the developers and architects would no longer have to worry about how to deal with various events coming from different systems and platforms. . . But the point of this post is not to re-litigate or re-justify Cloud Events. A simple Google search renders quite a few points for you to read to help the "Why Cloud Events?" question. The goal of this and subsequent posts on the subject is to share some ideas and the work we've been…

On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of the first Spring Vault release candidate 2.3.0-RC1.

This release contains a series of changes:

• Updated SecretLeaseContainer endpoints using now /sys/leases instead of /sys/revoke and /sys/renew.

• Introduction of AuthenticationStepsOperator which allows non-blocking access to Resource. This change also introduces a reloading capability for authentication mechanisms for PCF and Kubernetes authentication to obtain the latest credentials when attempting a Vault login.

• Support for KV Patch in VaultTemplate

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3, Spring Data 2020.0, and Project Reactor 2020.0

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On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of Spring Vault service release 2.2.3.RELEASE.

This release ships with mostly bugfixes, dependency upgrades, and selected features.

For a complete list of changes, see the 2.2.3.RELEASE changelog.

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I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.2.5 and 4.3.1 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These releases include a number of bug fixes and improvements. You can find the change logs here: 4.2.5 and 4.3.1.

I would like to thank all contributors who had a role in these releases!

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