On behalf of the team, I am excited to announce the release of the third milestone of Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.

Note: A great way to start using this new release(s) is to follow the release matrix on the project page, which includes the download coordinates and the links to the reference guide.

Highlights of the 1.2 M3 release:

Companion Metadata Artifact

As part of the long awaited feature to improve access to app properties info for both shell and Dashboard, we are introducing a new optional artifact for both Stream and Task applications - we are calling it the “companion metadata artifact”…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm visiting with customers and am presenting at the first Devoxx US event in San Jose, California. If you're around, don't hesitate to stop by and say hi at the Pivotal booth on the expo hall.

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 is now available! Get the bits while they're hot!
• Spring Cloud Task contributor Glenn Renfro just announced Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2
• Marius Bogoevici just announced Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea RC1
• Spring Cloud Vault lead Mark Paluch just announced the 1.0.RC1 of the project
• last week I continued my Spring Tips series, this time looking at the reactive HTTP client, the WebClient, in preliminary builds of Spring Framework 5 (as used in preliminary builds of Spring Boot 2.0).
• check out this webinar on domain-driven design by one of …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Dalston Release Train

Vault

Spring Cloud Vault Config is a new project that provides client-side support for externalized secret management in a distributed system via Hashicorp Vault.

Config Server

Config Server now has support for multiple backends via a Composite pattern. This allows for combinations…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

Spring Cloud Task 1.2.0.M2 offers the following features:

• Upgrade to Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 and Spring Boot 1.5.2 - This release is compatible with the Spring Cloud Dalston RC1 release.

• Fixed invalid data type bug in Oracle Script.

• Fixed bug in MySQL migration scripts so that they will work on file systems that are case sensitive.

• Updated Spring Cloud Task samples to use Spring Boot 1.5.2.

• Updated documentation to discuss unit testing and notes on using Transaction Managers.

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea.RC1. Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea.RC1 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository, and a detailed description of its features can be found in the reference documentation. For information about artifacts and a complete list of changes, please consult the release notes.

What is new?

Here’s a summary of the major new features and improvements brought by the new release:

Dispatching capabilities added to StreamListener

We’ve added support for dispatching messages to multiple @StreamListener methods…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce Spring Vault 1.0 RC1.

The artifacts are available in the Milestone repo.

Spring Vault includes 15 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades.

Here’s a short-list of the most important features shipping with the release:

• Support for renewable @VaultPropertySource with credentials rotation
• Reshaping APIs dropping VaultClient and using RestTemplate instead
• Added EnvironmentVaultConfiguration for simplified configuration without the need to create a derived configuration class.

Contributions

Without the community, we couldn’t be the…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! in this installment, we'll look at the reactive WebClient and WebTestClient in Spring Web Flux, the reactive web stack in Spring framework 5, due this summer.

Speaker: Michael Plöd, InnoQ

This talk will focus on one of the most precious parts of Domain Driven Design, the concept of Strategic Design, as well as Bounded Context, the Context Map and the patterns that are being documented in the Context Map.

An explanation of these principles as well as practical usage scenarios such as migrating a monolithic landscape to microservices is planned for discussion. And, using a hands-on approach, we will demonstrate the concepts surrounding Strategic Design with an application landscape of various Spring Boot Applications

Register now! North America…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Chicago on business and preparing for next week, where I'll be at the first Devoxx US event, ever!. I hope to see you there!

• last week, I continued the Spring Tips series with a look at how to implement server-sent events using classic Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux in Spring Framework 5, due this summer
• Last week, Pivotal and Google announced Kubo, the ability to run and manage Kubernetes, on top of BOSH, alongside Cloud Foundry. This means that it's now possible to get support for both Pivotal Cloud Foundry and Kubernetes deployments, supporting cloud native applications and low-level container orchestration equally.
• Spring I/O Platform lead Andy Wilkinson announced Spring I/O Platform Brussels SR1 and …