On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 12 (SR12) of the Spring Cloud Hoxton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Hoxton release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Hoxton Release Train

See all issues included in this release here.

This was primarily a bug fix and documentation release. Hoxton.SR12 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.3.x and 2.2.x.

NOTE: This will be the last regularly scheduled release of the Hoxton Release Train. It now enters a special maintenance period for security fixes and critical bugs until the end of Feb 2022 (which follows the lifecycle of Spring Boot 2.3.x). See the wiki…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman) looks at how to build smarter HTTP clients for your Spring Boot microservices with Spring Cloud Square, Retrofit, and OKHTTP.

Guest Author: Andi Marek, GraphQL Java founder

I am very happy to announce the creation of the Spring GraphQL project and the availability of an initial milestone towards a 1.0 release. The project integrates GraphQL Java and Spring and was developed in collaboration between both teams.

Today is GraphQL Java's 6th birthday! One fundamental decision I made from the start was to leave any HTTP and IO aspects as a separate concern. GraphQL Java has always been "just" an engine to execute GraphQL requests. The decision has paid off but the obvious downside is the need to create your own HTTP…

Following the Spring GraphQL project announcement and the availability of a 1.0 milestone, this blog post aims to provide more details.

Introduction

If you're looking to get started, please head over to our reference documentation and read the "Boot Starter" section, or run the samples.

If you don't know much about GraphQL, there are plenty of good resources. You can start at graphql.org/learn.

GraphQL is widely adopted and in "Early Majority" based on the InfoQ Architecture Trends for 2020. It provides an alternative to REST APIs that is more focused on data, and provides a schema and a query language for clients to use. The appeal from a client perspective is clear in this State of JavaScript report. You can read GitHub's story…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're in July already! That blows my mind - we're closer to 2022 than 2020 at this point. I don't wanna jinx it, but this year seems markedly better than last year, and I hope it stays that way. Anyway, friends, let's get on with the roundup!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Benjamin Wilms, founder of the Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot and Steadybit, a company to help you build more robust software
• BlockHound: how it works
• Getting Started with Apache Camel and Spring Boot
• GraalVM on Twitter
• Hello, Spring GraphQL
• Introducing Spring GraphQL
• Maciej Walkowiak on Twitter
• Spring Tips: Spring Retrosocket
• Use New Relic to effortlessly monitor applications and dependencies in Azure Spring Cloud
• Detect, Diagnose and Resolve Issues Faster in Spring Boot applications using @NewRelic across your Azure Spring Cloud instances.
• …

Today, we are excited to announce the integration of New Relic One performance monitoring in Azure Spring Cloud.

Over the past 18 months, we worked with many enterprise customers to learn about their scenarios. Many of these customers have thousands of Spring Boot applications running in on-premises data centers. As they migrate these applications to the cloud, they need to instrument them for application performance monitoring (APM) using tools that their developers are familiar with and have been using for years, and they must ensure continuity for desktop and mobile applications which are…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, I am so happy to talk to Benjamin Wilms, who founded the Chaos Monkey for Spring Boot, and recently co-founded - along with Spring Boot Admin cofounder Johannes Edemeir - an exciting company called Steadybit whose SaaS tool aims to make your systems and services more robust.

• @MrBWilms
• @steadybithq

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long looks at Spring Retrosocket, an EXPERIMENTAL project designed to provide an OpenFeign- or Retrofit-like experience for RSocket clients.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! How're you doin'? I've been busy working on new Spring Tips videos! (You are subscribed to our YouTube channel, aren't you?) I'll be doing Tanzu Code tomorrow, so don't miss that. We're going to be hacking on Spring Native, Spring Cloud Square, Spring Integration, and so much more.

• Hi, Spring fans! In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at Kubernetes Native Java
• A Bootiful Podcast: webassembly, IoT, data science, and Java guru Brian Sletten
• Blog: Announcing Kubernetes Community Group Annual Reports
• CVE report published for Spring Security
• I was on the Software-Defined Talk podcast with Michael Coté last week. Check it out: Developer Relations with Josh Long
• A new version of GraalVM Native Image build tools is available!
• Spring Boot 2.4.8 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.5.2 is now available
• Spring Integration Zip 2.0.0 Available
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