On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.2.0.M2, 5.1.7, 5.0.14 and 4.3.24 are available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now.

First things first, the second milestone of Spring Framework 5.2 includes over 50 fixes and improvements with improved RSocket integration and initial support for reactive transactions (more on that in a follow-up blog post soon). Spring Framework 5.1.7 includes 43 fixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all 5.x users.

Finally, we've also released Spring Framework 5.0.14 and 4.3.24 with a few selected…

Hi Spring fans! In today's installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) sits down with Jetbrain's Roman Elizarov (@relizarov). Roman works on the Kotlin team and, among other things, focuses on asynchronous programming with things like coroutines. This interview was a very detailed dive into the opportunities for asynchronous programming for Spring developers using Kotlin, especially in light of the new coroutine support coming in Spring Framework 5.2.

Twitter: Roman Elizarov (@relizarov) A great blog by Sebastien Deleuze on our new support

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at how to create dynamic views using Spring Webflux, server-sent events, websockets and Thymeleaf's reactive model attributes.

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire/PCC (SBDG) 1.1.0.M1.

Bits (org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter:1.1.0.M1) are available in the Spring libs-milestone repository.

What’s New

The SBDG 1.1 Milestone 1 (M1) release includes:

• Rebases SBDG on Spring Framework 5.1, Spring Boot 2.1, Spring Data Lovelace and Spring Session 2.1.

• Rebases SBDG on Apache Geode 1.6.0 and Pivotal GemFire 9.5.3.

For a complete list of changes, see the changelog.

What’s Next

SBDG 1.1 M2 will include dedicated support for In-line Caching, the second caching pattern in our 3 separate caching patters [Look-Aside, Inline, Near…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in beautiful Sao Paolo, Brazil for QCon Sao Paolo then it's off to Devoxx UK in London. As usual, lots of good stuff to get to so let's get to it.

• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.RELEASE Available!
• A Bootiful Podcast: Spring Cloud Engineer Olga Maciaszek-Sharma
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.0.0.RC2 Released!
• Interesting thread on Reddit.com: Docker and Spring Boot done properly?
• Spring Cloud Introduces Pluggable Circuit-Breaker Interface
• Microservices with Spring Boot and Spring Cloud. This is part 3 of a series, titled "From config server to OAuth2 server (without in-Memory things)"
• JPA or SQL in a Spring Boot Application? Why Not Both?
• DZone have my Spring Tips installment on WebMvc.fn up and …

At long last, it is my distinct pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.0.0.RELEASE!

The list of people to thank is long.

First, to Dr. Mark Pollack for your feedback real early on in the beginning of the project.

To Mr. Josh Long for sitting with me for 2 hours after midnight during S1P-2018 to give me feedback on using Apache Geode with Spring Boot.

To Mr. Phil Webb, and the entire Spring Boot ream, for providing guidance.

To the few community members who contributed PRs.

And finally, to everyone else for your support and patience while…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Cloud engineeer Olga Maciaszek-Sharma (@olga_maciaszek) about joining the Spring team, testing, consumer driven contracts and consumer driven contract testing, and so much more.

• Olga's Twitter (@olga_maciaszek)

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.0.0.RC2.

I would like to send a special shoutout to the Spring Boot team for providing invaluable feedback on this project. Indeed, without Spring Boot and the fine efforts of the Boot team, SBDG would not be possible. So, thank you Boot team!

After incorporating the feedback, I decided to postpone the final GA and introduce 1 more release candidate. Final 1.0 GA is (tentatively) scheduled for Monday, May 6th.

The bits (org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter:1.0.0.RC2) are available in the Spring libs-milestone…

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in colorful Chicago, Illinois, and magnificent Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I am so excited to be in both places. I'm in Chicago for the GOTO Chicago event, which is always fun, and I'm in Milwaukee for a meetup and, of course, to partake of local delicacies like Kopps, a Cousins sub, and a Spotted Cow beer. Life is great!

Did you see this epic image of the Chicago Lakeshore area I took the other day? Spring is truly in full swing! (I'll ignore the buckets of rain that have been dumped on Chicago and Milwaukee…