Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, @starbuxman talks to Spring Integration lead Gary Russell about Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spring Integration and more.

• Gary on Twitter (@gprussell)
• the Spring Integration project page

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.8 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 77 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

Dear Spring community, we’re proud to announce the second release candidate of Spring HATEOAS 1.0.0. Since our last release, Spring HATEOAS has made great strides with two more milestones and two RCs.

Here’s the summary:

• Internationalization support for both HAL and HAL-FORMS.

• Performance improvements

• Spring HATEOS is now based on Spring Framework 5.2 and Reactor’s Dysprosium release train. This is critical to support downstream projects like Spring Data Moore and Spring Boot 2.2.

• Now supports Spring WebFlux applications that have both hypermedia and non-hypermedia endpoints.

• Improved major chunks of reference documentation.

• Created a Spring HATEOAS Gitter channel.

• Fixed issues in various media types to ensure they comply with spec definitions, and don’t throw unexpected exceptions.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate of Spring Framework 5.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

Spring Framework 5.2.0.RC2 includes 63 fixes and improvements and is our last stop before GA proper scheduled 3 weeks from now.

Next up is Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6, stay tuned!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've just finished celebrating Labor Day here in the Long home, in San Francisco, in the US. It was a fun day spent with family and friends, and I wasn't sure if I could have any more fun but it's Tuesday, and you know what that means: another epic installment of This Week in Spring. I can't believe we're already in September, staring down the last few months of the year already! As usual, one of my favorite parts of the journey to the next year is the arrival of the epic SpringOne Platform show. This year is no different…

Hi Spring fans! In this week's episode I talk to Spring Cloud Data Flow legend Ilayaperumal Gopinathan ("Illaya") about his journey to open-source, batch processing and messaging, integration, and Spring Cloud Data Flow, and so much more. Enjoy!

• Illaya on Twitter (@ilayaperumalg)
• your resource for getting started with Spring Cloud Data Flow

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this I'm in beautiful Bangalore, India, stuck in a monster of a traffic jam trying to make it to another meeting. I'm so elated to be here to connect with amazing people and organizations. I'm also excited that, this week, I'll be speaking at the Bangalore Java User Group. Please, come out and say hi!

As usual, we've got a lot to cove so let's get to it!

• I loved recording last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast wherein I got to talk to Google's James Ward, Okta's Matt Raible and Grand Cloud's Ryan Knight on the Simplicity Continuum
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.0.RELEASE & 1.2.0.M1 Released!
• Collecting Custom Micrometer metrics has never been easier - Instana
• Deploying Spring Boot Applications - The Startup - Medium
• Smooth implementation of CQRS/ES with Spring Boot and Axon framework
• How To Keep the Layers of your Spring App Separate using Integration Tests - YouTube
• Spring Boot And Context Handling
• …

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! This week I had the pleasure of talking with Ryan Knight and with the two people with whom I am copresenting at SpringOne Platform 2019, James Ward and Matt Raible.

• James Ward on Twitter: @_JamesWard
• Matt Raible on Twitter: @mraible
• Ryan Knight on Twitter: @knight_cloud

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.1.0.RELEASE and the 1.2.0.M1 release.

SBDG 1.1.0.RELEASE is available in Maven Central.

SBDG 1.2.0.M1 is available in the Spring Milestone repository.

What’s New in 1.2.0.M1

Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.2.0.M1 was a baseline release to align SBDG on latest GemFire/Geode and Spring bits:

• Spring Framework 5.2.0.RC1

• Spring Boot 2.2.0.M5

• Spring Data Moore-RC2/2.2.0.RC2

• Spring Session Corn-M3/2.2.0.M3

With…