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If, like me, you're still at the beginning of your RSocket journey, check out the motivations behind the RSocket protocol. This short but insightful document includes one message that resonates very strongly with me — 'a mismatched abstraction increases the cost of developing a system.'

From a software design point of view, RSocket's four interaction models offer a significant benefit. It means we can model our component-to-component communications using the correct interaction model for each use case. This more productive model…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow cloud native at VMWare (@VMWare) and Kubernetes (@KubernetesIO) co-creator Joe Beda (@jbeda)

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the fourth milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 99 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Support for liveness and readiness probes.
• Improved support for building OCI images.
• Improved support for building layered jars, including customization when using Gradle.

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…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.1 (release notes), 5.2.3 (release notes), 5.1.9 (release notes) , 5.0.15 (release notes), 4.2.15 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another extra-meaty installment of This Week in Spring! This week, we've got a ton of stuff to look at so I won't belabor it!

• Tomorrow, the 1st of April, marks the 6 year anniversary of Spring Boot 1.0 going GA! Happy birthday my old friend!

• Spring Data Neumann goes RC1

• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.2.6.RELEASE Available

• @DynamicPropertySource in Spring Framework 5.2.5 and Spring Boot 2.2.6

• In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Apache Groovy, Testcontainers, and Reactor committer Sergei Egorov

• Spring Boot 2.2.6 available now

• Liveness and Readiness Probes with Spring Boot

• Spring Data Moore SR6 available now

• In last week's installment of Spring Tips, I look at Spring Cloud Loadbalancer

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of Spring Tip! In this installment, we look at something near and dear to my heart (and my @author tag!) - the Cloud Foundry Java client auto-configuration.

What is Cloud Foundry?

Cloud Foundry is an open-source PaaS. It has a lot of flexibility. I'm in love with it if I'm honest. It's simple. I love things like it that give me flexibility without requiring too many sacrifices at the altar of the YAML deity. It's an opinionated platform as a service. You give the platform an application, and it deploys them. You upload a spring boot app, and it figures out that the app is a standalone, self-contained, so-called "fat" .jar and it downloads the required JDK, configures the necessary amount of memory and then creates a filesystem with your…

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 4.2.2 and 4.1.4 with bug fixes and documentation updates. Please find the complete list of changes in the release notes: 4.2.2 and 4.1.4.

As we announced earlier, version 4.1.4 is the last release of the 4.1 line. Please upgrade to version 4.2.2 at your earliest convenience as this is the primary active branch for the moment and which will be supported until the end of 2020.

The next feature release will be 4.3, with a GA planned for October 2020, aligned with Spring Framework 5.3 and Spring Boot 2.4. This release is expected to be the last…

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Data Neumann has entered the release candidate phase with 86 tickets fixed. This release is the first of two release candidates. This release candidate ships with a series of noteworthy changes:

• Upgrade to Couchbase SDK 3.
• Spring Data MongoDB no longer automatically creates indexes from @Indexed annotations by default.
• The Cassandra module supports configurable naming strategies and ships with a revised data type resolution mechanism.
• Spring Data Elasticsearch now supports auditing and entity callbacks.
• Support for query derivation in Spring Data R2DBC.
• Dialect discovery for Spring Data JDBC, supporting H2, HSQLDB, Postgres, MariaDB, MySQL, and SQL Server.
• Upgrade to Querydsl 4.3.
• Ready for JDK 14.
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Recently, when talking about testing Spring Boot applications at Spring IO and SpringOne Platform, I've mentioned Testcontainers and discussed the boilerplate involved in configuring your tests to use the service running inside the container. I'm delighted to say that, with the recent Spring Framework 5.2.5 release, that boilerplate is no more.

Prior to the changes that we've just released, your integration test would look similar to the following:

@SpringBootTest
@Testcontainers
@ContextConfiguration(initializers = ExampleIntegrationTests.Initializer.class)
class ExampleIntegrationTests…