Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to "The Phoenix Project" and "The Unicorn Project" author Gene Kim (@RealGeneKim) about #DevOps, his experience of the industry, IT organizations and a MILLION TRILLION other things. I'd listen to this one first!

• The Phoenix Project
• The Unicorn Project

Hi, Spring fans! How're things, my friends? Can you believe we're already nearly at the end of January? I have been knee-deep in code and coffee for these last several days and I'm running late for a meeting so, without further ado, let's get to it!

• Creating Docker images with Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.4.0 M1 Released
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.3.1 Released
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Neo4j's mad scientist Michael Hunger on graphs, databases, and relationships
• Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1 is now available
• Spring Integration 5.3 Milestone 1 Available
• Spring Tools 4.5.1 released
• Want to run your own Azure Spring Cloud workshop? The team is constantly evolving their public workshop at https://github.com/microsoft/azure-spring-cloud-training
• …

Spring Boot 2.3.0.M1 has just been released and it brings with it some interesting new features that can help you package up your Spring Boot application into Docker images. In this blog post we’ll take a look at the typical ways developers create Docker images, and show how they can be improved by using these new features.

Common Docker Techniques

Although it’s always been possible to convert the fat jars produced by Spring Boot into Docker images, it’s pretty easy to make less than optimal results. If you do a web search for "dockerize spring boot app", the chances are high you’ll find an…

This is a maintenance release for small bug fixes, enhancements, and dependency updates. Generally speaking, we’re now on Spring Cloud Hoxton SR1. List of fixed issues can be found from 2.3.1 Issue List

Maven Preemptive Authentication

Support for using Maven Wagon transport for HTTP has been added to the Maven Artifact Resolver infrastructure. The driver for this was a request from a user to be able to use preemptive authentication with JFrog’s artifactory. Use of it is currently optional via a property but we’re looking to make it default sometime in the future and possibly introduce more…

UI Changes to Stream Editor

Stream Editor went through a much-needed touch of love and should now be more visually appealing. Here’s a simple screenshot what it looks like:

Maven Preemptive Authentication

Support for using Maven Wagon transport for HTTP has been added to the Maven Artifact Resolver infrastructure. The driver for this was a request from a user to be able to use preemptive authentication with JFrog’s artifactory. Use of it is currently optional via a property but we’re looking to make it default sometime in the future and possibly introduce more wagon transports which might…

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Neo4j's mad scientist (and the nicest robot you've ever met!), and one of the most brilliant and generous people around, Michael Hunger (@mesirii), about all things graph, relationships and more.

Dear Spring Community,

On behalf of the Spring Integration team I’m excited to announce that with the New Year we have some news to share with you. First of all, it is an honor to have taken over the lead role for the Spring Integration project. Gary Russell is still in the team and he leads Spring AMQP and Spring for Apache Kafka projects. Secondly we have just released the first milestone for Spring Integration of version 5.3.

It can be downloaded from our milestone repository:

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-core:5.3.0.M1"

This version is going to be a foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.3…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes 167 issues and pull requests.

Highlights of this first milestone include:

• Support for building Docker images using Cloud Native Buildpacks
• Support for building layered jars for building optimized Docker images
• End-to-end traceability for Configuration Properties
• Numerous dependency upgrades
• Support for Spring Data Neumann M1 which ships with major driver upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.5.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) improvement: live hover mechanism now reports connection failures
• (Eclipse) improvement: Add support for async completions in 4.15 (#402) - PR from @gayanper
• (Eclipse) improvement: Early access builds for Eclipse 4.15 available
• (Eclipse) fixed: auto-completion inserted extra newline for params in @Value annotations
• (Eclipse) fixed: Boot Dashboard cannot start app when Eclipse project name contains spaces (#403)
• (Eclipse) fixed: NPE in PropertiesJavaDefinitionHandler.adjustedHighlightRangeForKey (#401)
• (Eclipse) fixed…