I would like to use the opportunity of our Spring GraalVM Native 0.7.0 release to give you a status update about our work on Spring Boot native images.

Why?

Native image provides a way to build and run Spring Boot applications with different characteristics than a regular JVM deployment:

• The output is a native executable that contains your application with a subset of the JDK and the dependencies required to run it.

• In practice the executable would likely be shipped in an highly optimized container image (FROM scratch Docker image is supported) with reduced surface attack which is good fit with Kubernetes.

• Startup time is almost instant and peak performance is available immediately, allowing support for scale-to-zero (serverless) applications including for regular Spring Boot web applications.

• Memory consumption is reduced, which is a good fit for systems split into multiple microservices.

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Hi. How are you all doing? I hope you're doing well.

There's some interesting stuff this week so, without further ado...

• Spring Framework 5.2.7 and 5.1.16 available now
• Migrating Spring Boot's Build to Gradle
• A Bootiful Podcast: Kubernetes Release SIG Tim Pepper
• Just curious, how do you run your Spring Boot application? Interesting thread
• VMware: A Founding Member of GitHub's New Security Lab
• Use Spring Data JDBC with Azure SQL Database | Microsoft Docs
• RabbitMQ will be migrating to Mozilla Public License 2.0 in the upcoming month(s)
• An interesting article on virtual threads use of preemptive scheduling
• Introduction to event-driven microservices with Spring Cloud Stream – Piotr's TechBlog
• Great Twitter thread by Sergi Almar: …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.2.7 and 5.1.16 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.2.7 includes over 44 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.16 includes 17 selected fixes and improvements.

As usual, we'll follow up shortly with corresponding Spring Boot releases (2.3.1, 2.2.8 and 2.1.15).

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We made a fairly significant change to Spring Boot in 2.3.0.M1. It was the first release of the project to be built with Gradle rather than Maven. A thread on Twitter about the migration had a number of people asking why we switched and the benefits, if any, that we’d seen. This blog post aims to answer those questions.

Each project in the Spring portfolio is run in a fairly autonomous manner. We strive for consistency where our users will see it most – API design, for example – but choose the tools that best meet the needs of the project for things that are less visible. One example of this…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Tim Pepper (@pythomit) from VMware's Open Source Technology Center about Kubernetes and his role on the Kubernetes Release SIG.

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.3 (release notes), 5.2.5 (release notes), 5.1.11 (release notes) , 5.0.17 (release notes), 4.2.17 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Hi, Spring fans. We've got a ton of stuff to cover this week so let's get to it.

• Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR6, Hoxton.SR5 and 2020.0.0-M2 (aka Ilford) are Available
• A Bootiful Podcast: Dr. Malini Bhandaru on EdgeX and the opportunities for developers in the IoT space
• Spring Security OAuth 2.5.0 Released
• Spring Fu 0.3.0 and beyond
• Spring Tools 4.6.2 released
• Spring Batch Integration
• What's new in Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.0
• This Month in RabbitMQ
• A really nice thread about using Spring Boot, GraalVM native images, and Azure Functions
• Running Spring Boot GraalVM Native Images with Docker & Heroku
• Understanding Apache Maven - a great series by Chandra Guntur
• New blog post: Static Compilation of Java (and Spring Boot-based) Applications at Alibaba at Scale](https://medium.com/graalvm/static-compilation-of-java-applications-at-alibaba-at-scale-2944163c92e…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the following releases are available today: Service Release 6 (SR6) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train, Service Release 5 (SR5) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train and Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud 2020.0 (code name Ilford) Release Train. The Greenwich and Hoxton releases can be found in Maven Central here and here. The Ilford milestone can be found in the Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the individual release notes for more information: Greenwich.SR6, Hoxton.SR5 and 2020.0.0-M2.

As always, we welcome feedback on GitHub, Gitter, Stack Overflow, or Twitter…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Dr. Malini Bhandaru about EdgeX and the opportunities for developers in the IoT space.

• Edge X
• Getting started
• The Open Retail Initiative