Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a good amount of stuff to get to this week so let's dive right in!

• Introducing Spring Cloud Alibaba 2021.0.1.0
• In this installment of Spring Tips, I look at Hilla, an amazing new web framework from Vaadin
• A Bootiful Podcast: Microsoft Azure Developer Advocate Mark Heckler
• OG Cloud-Native Cora Iberkleid put together a really nice look on how to get resources in Kubernetes to "explain themselves"
• Kai Tödter announced that he's released version 1.3.0 of JSON:API for Spring HATEOAS
• I'm honored to be counted among many amazing folks in this list of The Top 100 Influencers in #DevRel
• Binaries for #OpenJDK 11.0.14.1 are out. This release addresses an issue with the…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former fellow Spring Developer Advocate at Tanzu, and current Java Developer Advocate at Microsoft, friend, ally, and altogether amazing human being, Mark Heckler (@mkheck).

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tips! In this installment we'll look at the new frontend/backend web framework from the fine folks at Vaadin: Hilla!

code is available at github.com/spring-tips/vaadin-hilla

Hi, Spring fans! Today, we are excited to announce the availability of Spring Cloud Alibaba 2021.0.1.0! Spring Cloud Alibaba provides a one-stop solution for distributed application development. It contains all the components required to develop distributed applications, making it easy for you to develop your applications using Spring Cloud. With Spring Cloud Alibaba, you need only add some annotations and a small amount of configuration to connect Spring Cloud applications to the distributed solutions of Alibaba and build a distributed application system with Alibaba middleware.

NOTE: The Spring Cloud Alibaba project is a community project maintained by Alibaba.…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'?

• A Bootiful Podcast: Reactive Streams cofounder, former deputy CTO at Lightbend, and legend Viktor Klang
• Announcing Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2021.1.1 GA Release
• GraphQL with Spring Boot java
• Hidden gems in Java 16 and Java 17, from Stream.mapMulti to HexFormat
• Introducing Spring Native for JHipster: Serverless Full-Stack Made Easy | Okta Developer
• Mar 10 - Getting Started with Spring Authorization Server
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.10.0-M1 Released
• Spring Cloud Gateway CVE reports published
• Spring Cloud Square 0.4.1 has been released
• Spring Tips: Reliable Database…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Stream Applications 2021.1.1 has been released.

This release is based on Spring Boot 2.6.3 and Spring Cloud 2021.0.1 and contains many improvements and bug fixes - check out the release notes for more information.

Stay in touch...

Please continue to engage with us by creating bug reports and feature requests on Github and asking questions on StackOverflow using the spring-cloud-stream or spring-cloud-dataflow tags.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the 0.4.1 release of Spring Cloud Square is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 0.4.1 release notes for more information.

This is primarily a bug fix release.

Notable changes in 0.4.1:

• Support for configuring custom WebClient.Builder beans for non-load-balanced scenarios (#44)

The documentation for this release can be found here.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Cloud Dataflow 2.10.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This preview release contains many improvements and bug fixes - check out the release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in 2.10.0-M1

• Update to Spring Boot 2.6.3 and Spring Cloud 2021.0.0
• Provide a Carvel package for easy installation into k8s
• Starting from 2.10, dropping support for mysql database in favour of MariaDB

Stay in touch...

As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former Akka lead and deputy CTO at Lightbend, engineering director at Sinch, Reactive Streams cofounder, the one and only legendary Viktor Klang (@viktorklang)