Hi Spring fans! It's the end of yet another season of Spring Tips! I finished season 5 very recently, and had planned to leave it there for a month or two, but there were so many amazing things yet uncovered and constantly being released that I ended up releasing more episodes for what would become season 6. Now, I've finished season 6, and an extra episode besides, and will be taking a brief break to gather for the next season and take a few weeks to soak up and savor the summer season with my family.

Please follow @SpringTipsLive on Twitter. I'd love any ideas you have for the new season. In the meantime, I'll still be doing the Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast on Twitter), if you want to listen instead of watch, and of course there is my weekly…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. Today I'm in beautiful Tampla, Fl, where I got to talk to a wonderful Pivotal customer today. Now I'm at TPA airport preparing to board for Paris, France, for JHipsterConf.

We've got a ton to cover so let's get to it!

• I just want to remind people that the majority of the Spring team is sponsored by the company Pivotal, an open-source powerhouse that sponsors among other things Spring, Cloud Foundry, a Kubernetes distribution, RabbitMQ, Jasmine, Apache Geode, Apache Tomcat, and a ton of other things. We've also got a deep bench in building software development tools including things like Pivotal Tracker. Want to learn more?
• Spring Tools 4.3.0 released
• A Bootiful Podcast: IBM's Pratik Patel on Java, Functions-as-a-service, cloud infrastructure, Spring and Devnexus
• Spring Tool Suite 3.9.9 released
• …

Hi Spring fans! This week Josh Long (@starbuxman) speaks to @IBM's Pratik Patel (@prpatel) about function-as-a-service, Spring Cloud Function, Spring, Java and Devnexus

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.3.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse Theia vs Atom) Eclipse Theia now officially supported, Atom support deprecated
• (Spring Boot) improvement: project classpath notifications now happen in batch on startup to further optimize performance and job load on the Eclipse side
• (Spring Boot) improvement: symbols are now being re-created if dependent types change
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Slow code completion takes more than a 1 sec. (#293)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: content-assist for Spring XML config files now working again in VS Code and Theia
• (Spring Boot) fixed: Anonymous inner type beans don't have boot hints
• (CF Manifest)…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.9.9 maintenance release of the Spring Tool Suite 3 (STS3).

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse 2019-06 release
• mimics the https-preferring XSD schema lookup of the core Spring framework
• allows users to use https for Spring schema locations as default
• various bug fixes

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite 3: https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all
• Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.9 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.9.9 is presumably the final release of the Spring Tool Suite 3 distribution. At the moment, there are no further updates or maintenance releases planned. For moving forward we recommend to switch to the next generation of the tooling, the Spring Tools 4. In case of high demand, we might produce additional maintenance update releases of the Spring Tool Suite 3. But in case you are missing important features in the new Spring Tools 4 that prevents you from switching over, let us know and report an enhancement request at https://github.com/spring-projects/sts4/issues…

On behalf of the Java CFEnv community I am happy to announce the release of Java CFEnv 1.1 GA.

This release add support for the following services:

• Volume Services

• Pivotal Single Sign-On Service

• Pivotal Redis Service

It also adds the following functionality:

• Checks the classpath to correctly determine setting of MySQL or MariaDB driver class name.

• When using the Spring Boot support, an exception is thrown if the Spring Cloud Connector library is on the classpath. This applies only for the following services: DataSource, RabbitMQ, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Redis. The exception message indicates to set the environment variable JBP_CONFIG_SPRING_AUTO_RECONFIGURATION '{enabled: false}'

• Support for Boot 1.5.x by copying a logging utility class into the project.

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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.6 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This is a maintenance release that includes a number bug fixes, dependency updates and documentation improvements.

Remember that Spring Boot 1.5 will be end of life in august, so all users should now be upgrading to Spring Boot 2.1.

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 fourth milestone of Spring Boot 2.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 170 issues and pull requests.

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.2 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started with 2.2 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io.

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Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at distributed locks in Spring Integration to ensure exclusive access to a shared resource in a cluster.

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)