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

This 2.6.0-M1 adds some bug fixes and the following features:

• 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. This change also allowed us to provide some additional user experiences when managing composed tasks. .

• Improvements in task applications management This milestone added some improvements at the backend such as the ability to uniquely identify the task elements inside the composed task, adding task manifest as part of the last ran task definition, ability to cleanup task related resources as part of task definition cleanup along with the SCDF dashboard changes.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast. In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Kubernetes guru and colleague Paul Czarkowski (@pczarkowski) about Austin, TX BBQ, Kubernetes and so much more.

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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On behalf of the team, I'm pleased to announce Spring Data releases Neumann SR1, Moore SR8, and Lovelace SR18. Those service releases are built on top of Spring Framework releases 5.2.7 (Neumann and Moore) and 5.1.16 (Lovelace) and ship with mostly dependency upgrades and fixes, along with a few selected improvements.

Spring Data Neumann SR1 contains 59 improvements and fixes. Spring Data Moore SR8 ships with 55 fixes and improvements. Finally, Spring Data Lovelace SR18 includes 38 selected fixes.

All service released will be picked up by the upcoming Spring Boot 2.3.1, 2.2.8, respective 2.1.15 releases for your…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud App Broker 1.1.1. Thanks to the community for your feedback and contributions! This release includes the following fixes and improvements:

• Upgrade to Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.1.1.RELEASE
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.2.7.RELEASE
• Upgrade to CF Java Client 4.7.0.RELEASE
• Upgrade to Spring CredHub 2.1.1.RELEASE
• Permissions stored in CredHub are now cleaned up on unbind
• Backing app environment is updated on upgrade
• Add service instance logging endpoints to support the service instance logs CF CLI plugin
• Fixed an issue where configured backing services were not being deleted
• Fixed an issue with deletion of permissions from CredHub
• Add a new logging starter
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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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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: …

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.