Oh emm geee y'all! We just released Spring Framework 5.2, complete with new RSocket support, and a slew of projects have followed suit in the intervening... day! I expect we'll see more soon, followed not too far behind by Spring Boot! And, of course, next week is the biggest week in all of Springdom every week: SpringOne Platform 2019!

I can't wait to get there, but first I'm off to Taipei for the JCCConf. THere's a ton to get to let's dive right in!

• Spring HATEOAS 1.0.0.RELEASE is released!
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.1.0.M2 Released
• Spring Data Lovelace SR11 released
• Spring Framework 5.2 goes GA
• Spring REST Docs 2.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 5.1.10 available now
• A Bootiful Podcast: Java Champion and Jetbrains Developer Advocate Mala Gupta
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.2.0.M3 Released
• How to configure RSocket security in a Spring Boot application with Spring Security - Stack Overflow
• twitter.com
• https://twitter.com/springcentral/status/1178773296839565312
• Reactive programming with Neo4j - Hantsy - Medium
• …

On behalf of the community and everyone who has contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.4.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users.

GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Twitter | Gitter | Stack Overflow

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Framework team and many recent contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.2 is generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central! Check out our updated docs...

• What's New in Spring Framework 5.2
• Upgrading to Spring Framework 5.2
• Our revised reference documentation with side by side examples for Java as well Kotlin.

Spring Framework 5.2 requires JDK 8 or higher and specifically supports JDK 11 as the current long-term support branch as well as JDK 13 as the latest OpenJDK release. It comes with many performance improvements (affecting startup time as well as peak performance) and further steps taken towards GraalVM native image support…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce that Spring Data Lovelace SR11 is now available.

This release ships with 72 tickets fixed, mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. Lovelace SR11 is built on top the recently released Spring Framework 5.1.10 and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.1.9 for easier consumption.

Finally, here are links to the reference documentation, changelogs, and artifacts of the individual project releases:

• Spring Data Commons 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 1.0.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.0.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 2.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.1.11 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

We are pleased to announce the 3.1.0.M2 release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker, which includes some initial support for Open Service Broker API v2.15. Thanks to the community for their significant contributions! This release includes the following fixes and enhancements:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.1.8.RELEASE
• Add maintenance_info field to Service Plan object
• Add maximum_polling_duration field to Service Plan object
• Add plan_updateable field to Service Plan object
• Return HTTP 400 when the required service_id and/or plan_id are missing or incorrect
• Return HTTP 202 when a service broker operation is in progress and an identical request is sent before the previous request completes
• Return JSON arrays instead of JSON objects for certain Service definition metadata
• Add support for custom base path of service broker controllers
…

Dear Spring community, we’re proud to announce the general availability of Spring HATEOAS 1.0.0.

Here’s the summary:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.2.0.RELEASE.

• Upgrade to Reactor Dysprosium-RELEASE.

• Upgrade to Jackson 2.10.0.

• Clarify expected behaviour around EntityLinks when using Spring WebFlux.

• Fix i18n support to work in broader scenarios.

• Update documentation to show how to create an ALPS serving controller for profile purposes.

• Fix example in docs to reflect requirement for _prompt for property I18N.

• Update reference docs to reflect new APIs, SPIs, and package structures.

…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.10 is available now.

Spring Framework 5.1.10 includes 35 fixes and selected improvements.

Next week is going to be quite busy release-wise with Spring Framework 5.2 GA followed by a number of spring projects going GA as well. We'll also have the first release candidate of Spring Boot 2.2, stay tuned!

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Hi Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to fellow Java Champion, industry legend, New Delhi JUG leader, author of several books on Java and Java certification, teacher, and @Jetbrains Developer Advocate Mala Gupta (@eMalaGupta) about @Java, learning new features in Java, and more.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring, a weekly roundup where I get to swim through the great content in the ecosystem and learn things and hopefully share interesting tidbits with you all. I mark my calendar by the number of This Week in Springs, so imagine my elation to realize looking at the calendar that we're really close to the epic SpringOne Platform 2019! I can't believe it!

The event takes place soon - October 7–10, 2019 - in Austin, Texas. That's just around the corner, but I've still got a few places to get to. I'm in Madrid, Spain, for the epic…