Hi Spring fans! In today's installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Gradle Developer Advocate Jenn Strater (@codeJENNerator) about Gradle, Groovy, Spring REST Docs, and so much more.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week I'm in sweet San Francisco, soaking up the sun and enjoying the fun of summer. Sure, I've got a few meetings, and appearances, etc., but it is very nice to be home. By the by, I'll be speaking at the upcoming San Francisco Java User Group - come hang out and say hi!

Anyway, lots of good stuff (as usual), so let's get to it.

• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0 Released
• Do not miss this extra special episode of A Bootiful Podcast with Spring team legend Oliver Drotbohm
• Simplifying the Spring Cloud Release Train
• Check out this great demonstrationn of Spring Cloud Task / Spring Batch-job executions and the monitoring of it using Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2 with InfluxDB and Grafana in Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2
• Hey Milwaukee, come hear Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb talk about Spring Cloud Gateway
• Good news everyone! Spring Boot supports Java 13
• Happy Sys-Admin appreciation day!
• I love the possibilities of …

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the GA release of 2.2.0.

In this GA release, Spring Cloud Data Flow team has worked on some of the key features including task application management, stability on the product by increasing the acceptance tests coverage across platforms (local, Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry), bug fixes and enhancements.

Task Application Management

It is now possible to stop and delete task executions using the SCDF Dashboard and the Shell. We have added support for task application monitoring using micrometer integration. The core of the Micrometer…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former Spring Data lead, creator of Spring HATEOAS, vocal hypermedia advocate and musician Oliver Drotbohm (@odrotbohm) on Spring Data, HATEOAS, Hypermedia, and more.

• Oliver on Twitter (@odrotbohm)

Spring Cloud continues to prove immensely popular, and over the last few years a number of IaaS providers have provided integration with their technology and joined the release train. This has typically involved getting into the spring-cloud GitHub org and publishing in the org.springframework.cloud Maven groupid. As the number of projects included looks to increase, it is becoming a little unwieldy, and we wanted to take a step back and review the pros and cons that this model provides and propose a better path forward that benefits all projects involved.

Perhaps the biggest downside to being…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I concluded my time in Portland, OR, for OSCON on Sunday, went to Chicago for the epic Chicago, IL Cloud Conf yesterday; today I am in Denver, CO, for meetings; and then Wednesday I am off to Burlington, MA for the SpringOne Tour 2019 event. We've got some good stuff this week so let's get to it!

• Hi Spring fans! In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Azul CTO Gil Tene on Java, JVMs, garbage collection, and a ton more
• There's an interesting new feature on master for Spring Cloud Gateway giving improved details about your routes in the Actuator
• Check out how the Dutch government uses Cloud Foundry to enhance users experience
• It's finally here! Check out the new support for the Cloud Foundry PAS running on Kubernetes. Here's another post with details from our partners over at VMWare on how PAS on Kubernetes improves the developer experience
• A nice post on the Okta blog on how to …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this week I'm joined by my old friend, Azul CTO, Gil Tene as we discuss Java, JVMs, garbage collection, and a ton more in this extra packed 90 minute-plus episode.

• Gil on Twitter
• Azul Systems
• Zing

HI Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I've just returned from Lima, Peru, for JConf Peru, and then today finished speaking at the SpringOne Tour Philadelphia event. Now, I'm off to Portland, OR, for the epic OSCON show. As usual, we've got tons to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Tools 4.3.1 released
• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Mr. REST / HATEOAS, Mike Amundsen, on APIs, HTTP, REST and more
• This is an interesting post on how Orange makes use of Cloud Foundry
• Check out this resolution for those using Spring Cloud Gateway and experiencing issues doing a retry POST
• Check out the RSocket YouTube channel
• Have you registered for SpringOne Platform 2019? Do it
• This is amazing - a new reactive Spring Data Neo4J implementation is coming!
• Check this out - there's now a Kubernetes-ready distribution of RabbitMQ. Now it's cloud-native!
• I love the new Microsoft Azure API development guidelines which encourage the use of Project Reactor …

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.3.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (all language servers) performance: further improvements to the language server startup time
• (Spring Boot) fixed: wrong error markers in properties files (#314)
• (VS Code) fixed: vscode goto definition error with lsp (#309)
• (Eclipse) fixed: STS4 can now be installed again into an existing Eclipse install when running on JDK8
• (Eclipse) fixed: deadlock when starting up the Spring Boot language server for workspaces with many projects
• (Eclipse) fixed: cannot launch apps in boot dashboard anymore when using early builds of Eclipse 2019-09 (4.13)
• (Eclipse) improved, but not completely fixed yet: freeze when opening pom.xml file - if you still experience slowness here, please apply the workaround as documented in the issues comment (comment on #314…