Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already staring down November? I can't! (We're just two months away from the new year!) This week I'm in Chicago for meetings, and then - finally - I'm off to San Francisco and see the family. Then, it's off to Europe for the Devoxx Ukraine and Devoxx Belgium events. I can't wait to see everyone there!

I'm particularly looking forward to spending Halloween (on the 31st of October) in San Francisco with my kid. The entire family, including the dog, have Halloween costumes. We're ready! (I'm going…

We are pleased to announce the first Release Candidate of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.RC1 (3.0.0.RC1).

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.RC1 (3.0.0.RC1) modules are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Quick highlights:

• Spring Boot 2.2.x
• Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.RC1

Notable features and enhancements for this milestone:

Emphasis on functional programming model

As mentioned in the previous release blogs, with this release we are shifting to a simpler functional programming model.

In the nutshell a simple spring-boot application with at least one function bean is also a spring…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

• Spring Cloud Hoxton.RC1 is built upon Spring Boot 2.2.0.RELEASE, please use this release when using Spring Cloud Hoxton.RC1.

Spring Cloud Vault

• Support for PCF authentication.
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Circuitbreaker

• Added auto-configuration to collect circuit breaker metrics when using Resilience4J (#47)
• Upgrade to Resilience4J 1.1.0
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We are pleased to announce the 3.1.0.M3 release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker. Support for Open Service Broker API v2.15 is now feature complete. Thanks to the community for your feedback and contributions! This release includes the following fixes and enhancements:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.2.0.RELEASE
• Support updating a Service Instance context
• Add list of endpoints to create and get Service Binding response bodies
• Support X-Broker-API-Request-Identity request identity header
• Restrict Operation strings to 10,000 characters in the response body
• Fix an issue where ServiceInstanceBindingDoesNotExistException was incorrectly extended from RuntimeException, instead of ServiceBrokerException
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If you listened to Oleg Zhurakousky's talk at Spring One Platform 2019 about Spring Cloud Stream & Functions or read his recent blog posts about Simplified Spring Cloud Stream and Functional Spring Cloud Stream, you may want to say: "Wait! What happened with Spring Integration support? What do I now do with my @ServiceActivator or IntegrationFlow? I used to deal with the Sink.input() as a channel to consume binder destination with some Spring Integration logic!" As Oleg mentions in his blog post, it is still possible with existing @EnableBinding and so on, but we are moving away from that…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Apache Tomcat, Netty and Spring Framework engineer Violeta Georgieva (@violeta_g_g).

• Violeta on Twitter (@violeta_g_g)
• See her keynote with Spencer Gibb at SpringOne Platform 2019
• I love this talk, Benefits of Reactive Programming with Reactor and Spring Boot 2
• Project Reactor

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.4.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) introducing the all-new mechanism to connect and disconnect to/from running Spring applications to show live data - take a look at the wiki for details
• (Spring Boot), (Eclipse) enhancement: Goto Symbol now also works from XML bean files
• (Spring Boot), (Eclipse) fixed: Completion in application.properties sometimes leaves some 'garbage' text
• (Spring Boot): improve performance of xml symbol scanning
• (Spring Boot): updated lsp4xml to 0.9.1 to address (CVE-2019-18212) + (CVE-2019-18213)
• (Spring Boot): improve performance of xml symbol scanning
• (Concourse) enhancement: added support for registry-image resource type (#380…

On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of Spring Vault releases 2.2.0.RC1 and 2.1.4.RELEASE.

Both releases ship with mostly bugfixes and dependency upgrades.

For a complete list of changes see the 2.2.0.RC1 changelog respective 2.1.4.RELEASE changelog.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation for 2.2.0.RC1 | Documentation for 2.1.4.RELEASE | Stack Overflow

Last year right in the middle of SpringOne Platform 2018, I posted the first post in this series, _ The Reactive Revolution at SpringOne Platform 2018 (part 1/N)_, which looked at some of the big features we'd just dropped at SpringOne Platform 2018. I wanted to follow up and revisit that blog and the concepts I'd introduced last year, and show just how far we've come in the intervening year. TL;DR: things are much easier!

R2DBC

Last year, we announced our work on trying to support a standard for reactive SQL data access with a new project called R2DBC. Traditional approaches to SQL data…