Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dan North (@tastapod), creator of BDD, optimizer of teams and all around legend.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 5 (M5) of the Spring Cloud 2020 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2020 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020 Release Train

This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.0.

Support for OpenTelemetry was added in Sleuth.

Support for RSocket was added in Bus.

Please see the wiki for a list of all breaking changes in this release train.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the Github project.

Spring Cloud Bus

Support for RSocket was added via Spring Cloud Function RSocket support. This does not require Spring…

This release is a major milestone in Spring's R2DBC support. Spring support for R2DBC started as an experimental project two years ago to evaluate how a reactive SQL integration might look. With this release, Spring Data R2DBC underwent a major refactoring by moving several components into a dedicated spring-r2dbc module and deprecating components that are provided by the Spring Framework. Besides that change, Spring Data R2DBC ships with the following most notable changes:

• Add lifecycle callbacks through the EntityCallback API
• Reactive auditing
• Pass-through of enum values and Postgres Geo types
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Hi, Spring fans! Can you believe it's already November 17th, 2020!? We're weeks away from Thanksgiving here in the US and then the end-of-year holidays. I, for one, can not believe it. You know what else is pretty wild? The first week of January will be ten years of writing This Week in Spring!

I've got a pretty busy appearance schedule between now and the end of the year though. I'd love to see you at any of these events.

And, with all that out of the way, we've got a ton of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Boot 2.4 and living legend, CTO, and friend John Davies
• A Seal of Approval: Project Pinniped
• AWS Announces Amazon MQ Will Support RabbitMQ
• Biased locking Obsoletion
• BuildKit CLI for kubectl: A New Way to Build Container Images
• Case Study: Elasticsearch sink
• Episode 7 “The Vector API” with John Rose and Paul Sandoz
• Implement a rolling index strategy with Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.1 | sothawo
• Matt Raible looks at ways to secure your applications with Spring Security
• New Project Lanai Early Access build
• OpenJDK Projects Give Rise to Innovations in JDK 15 and Beyond
• …

This article is part of a blog series that explores the newly redesigned Spring Cloud Stream applications based on Java Functions. In this post, we will look at the Elasticsearch sink that allows us to index records in Elasticsearch, and its corresponding Consumer function.

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

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The Spring Data MongoDB 3.1 release is one of the modules that highly benefited from the recent changes in the Spring Data Commons module, by leveraging the infrastructure built there to bring reactive features like auditing and SpEL. The following snippet gives you an impression of what this means for declarative MongoDB queries using SpEL:

@Query("{ 'supervisor' : ?#{ hasRole('ROLE_ADMIN') " +
  "? new Document('$regex', '*') : principal.name } }")
Flux<Person> findAllFilteredByRole();

@EnableReactiveMongoAuditing uses the common infrastructure so you can keep track of changes easily.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.6 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 30 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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at the week that was, talks about the JUST released Spring Boot 2.4, and then talks to industry legend and larger-than-life friend John Davies (@jtdavies)

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.4.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central. 2.4.0 is the first generally available Spring Boot release that uses the new versioning scheme. Please note that the version is 2.4.0 rather than 2.4.0.RELEASE that you may have expected based on previous releases.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

What's new in 2.4

Config File Processing…