On behalf of the Spring Data team I’m delighted to announce the second milestone of the 2020.0.0 release train (codename "Ockham"). This release ships almost 120 tickets fixed! The most important new features are:

• Support for reactive SpEL context extensions.
• Support for reactive auditing in Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, and R2DBC.
• Integration of Spring Data Neo4j 6.0, which is a rewrite of the module without relying on Neo4j OGM.
• Refactoring of Spring Data R2DBC on top of Spring Framework's R2DBC module.
• Oracle dialect for Spring Data JDBC.

Find a curated changelog in our release train wiki or skim through a full list of changes in JIRA. Next up is 2020.0.0-RC1 planned for mid-September…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the third service release of the Spring Data Neumann release train. Neumann SR3 ships with 34 tickets fixed.

This release ships with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.3.3 in the coming days.

Here are the detailed links to each individual artifact and the reference documentation:

• Spring Data Commons 2.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.0.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.0.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.2.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.3.3 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the second milestone for Spring Integration 5.4 generation.

It can be downloaded from our milestone repository:

compile 'org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.4.0-M2'

This version continues a story since milestone 1 for aggressive dependencies upgrades and deprecation removals, including legacy metrics.

Some key highlights in this milestone alongside with the number of bugfixes and refactorings:

• The fix for CVE-2020-5413;

• An Inbound Channel Adapter for R2DBC;

• A Reactive Message Producer implementation for Redis Stream;

• A ZeroMqChannel is implemented, too;

• The RMI module is deprecated now.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.3.0-M2 is available now.

The second milestone of Spring Framework 5.3 includes 55 fixes and improvements.

If you want to give the milestone a try, you can bootstrap a new application on start.spring.io once Spring Boot 2.4.0-M2 is released later this week.

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Introduction

So far in this series we have introduced the new stream applications based on Java functions, and function composition. We have also provided detailed examples of how to build a source from a supplier and a sink from a consumer. Here we continue the journey with the first of several case studies to follow. Each case study demonstrates how to use one or more of the available pre-packaged Spring Boot stream applications, in various scenarios, to build data streaming pipelines.

Today we will showcase two of the most commonly used applications, the HTTP source and the JDBC sink. We will use them to build a simple service that accepts HTTP POST requests and saves the contents to a database table. We will first run these as standalone Spring Cloud Stream applications, and then show how to orchestrate the same pipeline with Spring Cloud Data Flow…

Dear Spring community,

Spring Web Services Samples (spring-ws-samples) has been upgraded!

You might have known this, but many parts of this collection of samples goes all the way back to 2006. Today, I am happy to report it has been updated in a multitude of ways.

• Introduction to Spring Boot

• Introduction to Spring Data

• Removal of outdated technologies

• Removal of redundant samples

This was a hard-won task that took me several weeks, but based on the incredible persistence of SOAP, it was something that had to be done to serve the Spring community.

Introduction to Spring Boot

One of…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks about ten years on the Spring team, reactive support, and RSocket support in Spring Integration, his upcoming appearances at SpringOne and his upcoming YOW! workshop on Cloud Native Java, and then talks to JFrog's Baruch Sadogursky (@jbaruch) about continuous delivery, DevOps, Java artifact management Artifactory, and more.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

How're you all doing? Me? I'm doing swell! I was so happy to celebrate my tenth anniversary on the Spring team on the 2nd of August, 2020. It has been an amazing run so far and I am so excited about the continued adventure! A huge part of the reason I love this job is because of you, dear community. Thank you. You can learn more about the story so far in this blog.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Josh Lock on supply chain security, Docker trust, TUF, and more
• Confluent put on yet another great stream on Spring Boot and Apache Kafka
• I am doing a two-day, online, Cloud Native Java workshop for the legendary YOW! conference. Please register now!
• Check out Michael Hunger's Twitch stream tomorrow wherein he'll explore the brand-new Spring Data Neo4J 6 (including the reactive support) on Wednesday, 11am CEST, 7pm AEST, 2:30 IST, 9am GMT.
• Check out This Month in RabbitMQ, June 2020 Recap
• …

Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.6.0.

This 2.6.0 adds usual bug fixes and the following key highlights:

• Wavefront New integration to monitor streams and tasks using Wavefront. More about this feature can be found from Stream Monitoring and Task Monitoring

• Platform Support for Scheduling Tasks scheduling now have a platform support. See Scheduling Tasks

• Java CFEnv We're now on a new version of Java CFEnv which greatly improves user experience when there is a need to bind to user created services.

• Bitnami We've moved from a Helm Hub to Bitnami as a helm chart storage.

• Composed Task Runner as SCDF native module Composed Task Runner is now an integral part of SCDF itself and gets registered implicitly while the users who have the custom composed task runner can still override the native one. This enables us to integrate the composed tasks management within the context of Spring Cloud Data Flow.

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