This Week in Spring - December 1st, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | December 02, 2020 | ...

Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.6.4 and 2.7.0 Released

Engineering | Ilayaperumal Gopinathan | December 02, 2020 | ...

Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.7.0 and 2.6.4

While the release 2.6.4 has the bug fixes, the 2.7.0 has the following updates along with the bug fixes and improvements :

SCDF dashboard re-design using VMware Clarity toolkit

SCDF dashboard is re-designed using VMware Clarity design system. This is a complete rewrite of SCDF dashboard GUI to get the benefits of the Clarity design.

Spring Boot 2.3. Update

SCDF server components are now updated to use Spring Boot 2.3.5 release.

Wavefront integration

Spring Cloud Data Flow dashboards for streams, tasks, SCDF server components and Kafka Streams dashboard are available in VMware Wavefront dashboards for integrations. The configurations required to set up the wavefront integration are simplified at the SCDF as well. More information on this can be found here

Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0 Released

Releases | Roy Clarkson | November 30, 2020 | ...

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.2.0. Version 3.2.0 is upgraded to Spring Boot 2.3, and addresses a few issues related to OSB API v2.15 support. It is feature compatible with the 3.1.2 release, and includes the following:

  • Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.3.6.RELEASE (#310)
  • Return HTTP 400 Bad Request for unknown instance in last operation (#306)
  • Fix MaintenanceInfo.toString (#301 via @gberche-orange)
  • Replace dependency management plugin with Gradle platform dependencies (#298)
  • Add MaintenanceInfo to CreateServiceInstanceRequest and UpdateServiceInstanceRequest (#290)
  • Return the operation in the HTTP 202 response body when an async operation is in progress and another request is received for the same service instance (#284)
  • Update Gradle build to use native Gradle facilities for publishing artifacts (#280)

Spring Data 2020.0 - New and Noteworthy in Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.1

Engineering | Mark Paluch | November 26, 2020 | ...

Spring Data 2020.0.0 ships with Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.1. This release ships with numerous enhancements that refine existing functionality and introduce support for selected Cassandra 4 features:

  • Reactive auditing
  • Reactive SpEL support in @Query query methods.
  • Configuration of the keyspace per Statement through CqlTemplate and QueryOptions.
  • Revised CqlOperations with new queryForStream(…) methods returning a Stream with transparent pagination.
  • DataClassRowMapper to map Cassandra results to data classes via constructor creation/bean properties

Reactive Auditing

Reactive auditing is enabled by annotating your configuration class with @EnableReactiveCassandraAuditing. Registering a bean that implements ReactiveAuditorAware

This Week in Spring - November 24th, 2020

Engineering | Josh Long | November 25, 2020 | ...

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another jam-packed installment of This Week in Spring! It's the week of Thanksgiving here in the United States and I feel like I've got a ton of things and a ton more people for which and for whom to be thankful, and a huge, constant part of that is you, dear community. I say this in this column all the time, but you - the community - are the main reason that Spring is worth doing. I know that I speak for the entire Spring team when I say: thank you! And, speaking for myself, I hope that, whether you're in the US celebrating Thanksgiving or anywhere else, that you…

Spring Data 2020.0 - New and Noteworthy in Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.1

Engineering | Christoph Strobl | November 24, 2020 | ...

Spring Data Elasticsearch is one of the community modules shipped with the 2020.0 release. On behalf of P.J. Meisch, who is doing most of the heavy lifting these days, we’re happy to share his insights on the current release.

The previous release included major overhaul of the internal code structure and the API, whereas the 2020.0 version of Spring Data Elasticsearch focused on fixing bugs and adding functionality.

Altogether there were 23 bugs fixed and 81 other issues resolved. Spring Data Elasticsearch now is built with the actual Elasticsearch version 7.9.3.

This blog post shows the most…

Spring Native for GraalVM 0.8.3 available now

Releases | Sébastien Deleuze | November 23, 2020 | ...

On behalf of everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Native for GraalVM 0.8.3 has been released and is available from Spring milestone repository, check the updated reference documentation for more details.

Spring Native for GraalVM provides an incubating support for compiling Spring applications to native executables using the native-image compiler, in order to provide a native deployment option designed to be packaged in lightweight containers. In practice, the target is to support your Spring application (typically a Spring Boot one), unmodified, on this new…

Spring Data 2020.0 - New and Noteworthy in Spring Data Neo4j 6.0

Engineering | Christoph Strobl | November 20, 2020 | ...

Spring Data Neo4j is a Spring Data community project that is maintained and developed by Neo4j, Inc. On behalf of the team working on the module at Neo4j, we are happy to share their insights about recent changes and new features shipped with the 2020.0.0 release.

Neo4j users who use Spring Boot 2.3 require special attention because the configuration infrastructure for Spring Data Neo4j 6.0 has changed in an incompatible way.

That said, not only has the configurational infrastructure changed, but the whole project changed.

The module has some history and went through several major changes. For…

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