Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another fun-filled and fantastic installment of This Week in Spring where we review the week that was in the Java ecosystem. It's been quite a week indeed. SOoo many new releases and so many interesting things going on in the larger Spring, Java, Azure, and VMware ecosystems, that we don't have a moment to waste so: onward!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér on his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, reactive work
• Ask the Java Architects Panel
• Azure + Spring Boot = Serverless - Q&A with Julien Dubois
• Azure in the Enterprise: Azure Object Storage Service and Spring Boot
• Intel’s VMworld Sessions Highlight Modernized Infrastructure from Edge to Cloud
• Java Language Futures - Mid 2020 Edition
• Keeping Your Java Applications Secure - Cryptographic Improvements and Best Practices
• Keynote - The Future of Java Is Now
• Microsoft Azure and VMware makes the path to the cloud easier
• …

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode (SSDG) 2.1.11.RELEASE, 2.2.5.RELEASE, 2.3.1.RELEASE and 2.4.0-RC1.

SSDG 2.1.11.RELEASE is pulled in by Spring Boot 2.1, SSDG 2.2.5.RELEASE by Spring Boot 2.2, SSDG 2.3.1.RELEASE by Spring Boot 2.3 and SSDG 2.4.0-RC1 by Spring Boot 2.4. All of these releases are primarily dependency alignment releases and pick up the latest Spring Data bits on which SSDG is strongly based.

Note

SSDG 2.4.0-RC1 is now based on Apache Geode 1.13.0. Given VMware Tanzu GemFire (formerly known as Pivotal GemFire) is now longer released by VMware, Inc. as a standalone, independently managed solution, SSDG 2.4 will no longer ship a spring-session-data-gemfire module. GemFire 9.10 was the last supported, standalone, independently managed version of GemFire, which was based on Apache Geode 1.12…

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode (SBDG) 1.1.10.RELEASE, 1.2.10.RELEASE, 1.3.4.RELEASE and 1.4.0-M3.

SBDG 1.1.10.RELEASE is based on Spring Boot 2.1.17.RELEASE, SBDG 1.2.10.RELEASE is based on Spring Boot 2.2.10.RELEASE, SBDG 1.3.4.RELEASE is based on Spring Boot 2.3.4.RELEASE and SBDG 1.4.0-M3 is based on Spring Boot 2.4.0-M3. In addition, SBDG pulls in the latest Spring Data, Spring Session and Spring Test for Apache Geode releases and bits.

Each of these releases includes dependency alignment, documentation revisions and minor improvements. See the changelog…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.17 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 22 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Please note that version of Spring Framework that is used by this release of Spring Boot contains a fix for a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-5421).

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…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.0-RC1 is now available from our milestone repository.

What’s New?

This release comes with a number of new features that you can find in the release notes, but here are the major highlights:

1. GraalVM Support

A lot of work has already been done in Spring Framework to support running some types of Spring applications on GraalVM. In this release, we made changes in Spring Batch to correctly run Batch applications on GraalVM as well.

The support is still experimental, so we encourage you to give the release a try and share your feedback.

2. Java…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.10 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 72 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Please note that version of Spring Framework that is used by this release of Spring Boot contains a fix for a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-5421).

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.4 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 61 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Please note that version of Spring Framework that is used by this release of Spring Boot contains a fix for a security vulnerability (CVE-2020-5421).

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 160 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Java 15 support
• A new Startup actuator endpoint
• Docker authentication support
• Config data import improvements
• Numerous dependency upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.4 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

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 :-)