We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud App Broker 1.2.1!

Our focus at the start of the 1.2.x release series has been to update our major dependencies, namely Spring Boot and Spring Cloud Open Service Broker. We have also updated and simplified our build and release process. Since the release of 1.1.1, the 1.2.1 release incorporates the following updates:

• Update the Gradle build to make use of new native features for dependency management and publication
• Upgrade to Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.3.6

Gradle:

implementation("org.springframework…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very fun week since we last spoke. How are you? Can you believe that it's already the first day of December, 2020? Time sure flies... or something heh. This week is full of cool stuff so let's get to it!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Swarna Podila on Cloud Foundry, Hashicorp and more
• A Spring Tools Suite office hours
• Cloud Native Buildpacks with Paketo.io & layered jars for Spring Boot
• Developer Toolkit: How to Leverage Reactive Programming with R2DBC Async Java Connector
• If You’re Using Kafka With Your Microservices, You’re Probably Handling Retries Wrong | by Dave Taubler | Nov, 2020 | Medium
• JEP proposed to target JDK 16: 390: Warnings for Value-Based Classes
• Metaspace in OpenJDK 16
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0 Released
• …

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0. Version 3.2.0 is upgraded to Spring Boot 2.3, and addresses a few issues related to OSB API v2.15 support. It is feature compatible with the 3.1.2 release, and includes the following:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.3.6.RELEASE (#310)
• Return HTTP 400 Bad Request for unknown instance in last operation (#306)
• Fix MaintenanceInfo.toString (#301 via @gberche-orange)
• Replace dependency management plugin with Gradle platform dependencies (#298)
• Add MaintenanceInfo to CreateServiceInstanceRequest and UpdateServiceInstanceRequest (#290)
• Return the operation in the HTTP 202 response body when an async operation is in progress and another request is received for the same service instance (#284)
• Update Gradle build to use native Gradle facilities for publishing artifacts (#280)
• …

Spring Data 2020.0.0 ships with Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.1. This release ships with numerous enhancements that refine existing functionality and introduce support for selected Cassandra 4 features:

• Reactive auditing
• Reactive SpEL support in @Query query methods.
• Configuration of the keyspace per Statement through CqlTemplate and QueryOptions.
• Revised CqlOperations with new queryForStream(…) methods returning a Stream with transparent pagination.
• DataClassRowMapper to map Cassandra results to data classes via constructor creation/bean properties

Reactive Auditing

Reactive auditing is enabled by annotating your configuration class with @EnableReactiveCassandraAuditing. Registering a bean that implements ReactiveAuditorAware…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Swarna Podila (@skpodila) about Cloud Foundry, networks and Hashicorp, among other things.

Happy Thanksgiving!

• Hashicorp Cloud Platform
• Waypoint
• Cloud Foundry

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed installment of This Week in Spring! It's the week of Thanksgiving here in the United States and I feel like I've got a ton of things and a ton more people for which and for whom to be thankful, and a huge, constant part of that is you, dear community. I say this in this column all the time, but you - the community - are the main reason that Spring is worth doing. I know that I speak for the entire Spring team when I say: thank you! And, speaking for myself, I hope that, whether you're in the US celebrating Thanksgiving or anywhere else, that you…

Spring Data Elasticsearch is one of the community modules shipped with the 2020.0 release. On behalf of P.J. Meisch, who is doing most of the heavy lifting these days, we’re happy to share his insights on the current release.

The previous release included major overhaul of the internal code structure and the API, whereas the 2020.0 version of Spring Data Elasticsearch focused on fixing bugs and adding functionality.

Altogether there were 23 bugs fixed and 81 other issues resolved. Spring Data Elasticsearch now is built with the actual Elasticsearch version 7.9.3.

This blog post shows the most…

On behalf of everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Native for GraalVM 0.8.3 has been released and is available from Spring milestone repository, check the updated reference documentation for more details.

Spring Native for GraalVM provides an incubating support for compiling Spring applications to native executables using the native-image compiler, in order to provide a native deployment option designed to be packaged in lightweight containers. In practice, the target is to support your Spring application (typically a Spring Boot one), unmodified, on this new…

Spring Data Neo4j is a Spring Data community project that is maintained and developed by Neo4j, Inc. On behalf of the team working on the module at Neo4j, we are happy to share their insights about recent changes and new features shipped with the 2020.0.0 release.

Neo4j users who use Spring Boot 2.3 require special attention because the configuration infrastructure for Spring Data Neo4j 6.0 has changed in an incompatible way.

That said, not only has the configurational infrastructure changed, but the whole project changed.

The module has some history and went through several major changes. For…