Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to his friend and Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér (@jboner) about his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, and reactive work over the decades, about the cooperation with the Spring team on the Reactive Streams, the Reactive Foundation, and more.

• Check out the upcoming Reactive Summit! Both Jonas and Josh will be speaking there :-)

Hi, Spring fans! I was on the Microsoft Azure YouTube show Azure in the Enterprise with Lyle Dodge where I did a quick demonstration introducing the Spring for Microsoft Azure support for the Microsoft Azure Object Storage Service. Check it out!

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an absolutely nutty week! It's just Tuesday and I'm beat!

Over the weekend I completely refactored the pipeline I used for my just-published book Reactive Spring (which, by the way, is now available on Leanpub and on Amazon as digital and paperback editions) and turned it into the turnkey Asciidoctor pipeline I'd always wanted but - since I was traveling 650,000 miles a year, speaking at hundreds of conferences or events yearly, writing a 450-page book, releasing weekly blogs, recording a weekly podcast…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m pleased to announce a round of service releases for the Spring Data Neumann, Moore, and Lovelace release trains. Neumann SR4 ships with 43 tickets fixed, Moore SR10 ships with 46 tickets fixed, and, finally, Lovelace SR20 ships with 35 tickets fixed.

The releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.3.4, 2.2.10, 2.1.17 ( respectively) in the coming days.

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

Neumann SR4

• Spring Data Commons 2.3.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.0.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.3.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.0.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.0.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.3.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.2.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.3.4 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and everyone who contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2020.0.0 has entered its release candidate phase by releasing the first of two release candidate releases, available from the milestone repository. This release ships with 70 tickets fixed. The most notable changes are:

• Support for Redis 6 ACL and upgrade to Lettuce 6.0 RC2.
• Migration of core R2DBC support from Spring Data R2DBC to Spring R2DBC.
• Support the SocketFactory configuration client in Spring Data Geode.
• Slice query support for Neo4j and a revised API for relationships.
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.8.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

This release includes major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2020-09 release
• requires a JDK11 to run on
• ships with an embedded JDK14 runtime, no need to install or configure a specific JDK to run the IDE on anymore
• includes Eclipse Docker tooling by default now (in addition to the nice docker integration for the Spring Boot Dashboard)
• includes Wild Web Developer tooling now (#354), including advanced support for JavaScript, TypeScript, HTML, and more
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On behalf of the community and everyone who has contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.5.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users.

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Dear Spring community,

please, meet the third (and the last) 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-M3'

Since the previous milestone 2 this release brings number of bug fixes and some internal improvement, including alignment with new Sink API from project Reactor in the FluxMessageChannel and IntegrationReactiveUtils.

See What’s New in documentation for more information.

This version is going to be pulled in the upcoming Spring Boot 2.4.0-M3 release tomorrow.

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Updated on 2020-09-17 to add links to CVE-2020-5421 and the corresponding Spring Boot releases.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a full round of Spring Framework releases.

Spring Framework 5.2.9 includes 42 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.1.18 includes 16 selected fixes and improvements.

Maintenance releases for 5.0.x (5.0.19) and 4.3.x (4.3.29) with 13 selected fixes and improvements and 9 selected fixes and improvements respectively are also available today.

All of the releases include a fix for CVE-2020-5421.

Stay tuned for the release candidate of Spring Framework 5.3 and follow-up Spring Boot releases 2.1.17, 2.2.10, and 2.3.4…