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…

On behalf of the Spring and Apache Geode communities, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.2.0.M3.

SBDG 1.2.0.M3 continues to be based on the same bits as the 1.2.0.M2 release: primarily:

• Spring Framework 5.2.0.RC2

• Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6

• Spring Data Moore-RC3

• Spring Session Corn-M4

• Spring Test for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (STDG) 0.0.8.RELEASE

The SBDG 1.2.0.M3 bits may be acquired from the Spring Milestone Repository as well as Spring Initializer.

What’s New

We now include support for switching between environments…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.4.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse) major change: quick text search contributed to the Eclipse platform and ships to millions of Eclipse users now
• (Eclipse) improvement: updated to Eclipse 2019-09 release
• (Eclipse) improvement: various improvements to support the dark theme
• (Eclipse) fixed: deadlock during startuo fixed
• (Concourse) improvement: updated to latest changes in Concourse YAML elements and attributes
• various additional bug fixes

To download…

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Manning's The Java Module System author Nicolai Parlog (@nipafx) about Java modularity.

• Nicolai Parlog on Twitter: @nipfax
• NIcolai's new book, Manning's The Java Module System

On behalf of the Spring Batch team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 4.2.0.RC1. We have been working on some performance improvements in the core framework, and this post highlights the major changes.

Major Performance Improvements

We have made some performance improvements, including:

• Enhanced Step Partitioning
• Improved Job Stop
• Faster Writes with the JpaItemWriter
• Optimized Bean Mapping with the BeanWrapperFieldSetMapper

Enhanced Step Partitioning

Starting a partitioned step is an area where the framework wasn't well optimized. In this version, we have dug deep into…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring - and what a week it is! I'm at the epic annual eventapalooza that is Oracle CodeOne (formerly JavaOne). I just finished a talk today on reactive programming and I'll have another talk on Kotlin on Wednesday. Don't miss it!

Meanwhile, we've got a ton of things to get to this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire 1.1.1.RELEASE & 1.2.0.M2 Available!
• If you listen to one podcast this week, listen to this latest and greatest installment of A Bootiful Podcast with Spring Framework co-founder, and lead, Juergen Hoeller on Spring Framework 5.2, open-source, deciding the themes for a new release, his legendary journey as lead of Spring Framework, and more.
• Spring Cloud Greenwich.SR3 Released
• Spring Vault 2.2 M1 available now
• Check out Reactor teammate Simon Basle's talk on RSocket, from the epic JavaZone 2019 event last week
• The Spring Initializr - start dot spring dot io - now supports dark mode…

This post was authored by Vedran Pavić

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session Corn-M4. This release is picked up by Spring Boot 2.2.0.M6.

Spring Session Corn-M4

The Corn-M4 release is based on:

• Spring Session core modules 2.2.0.M4

• Spring Session Data Geode 2.2.0.M4

• Spring Session Data MongoDB 2.2.0.RC2

Some of the highlights of Spring Session 2.2.0.M4 are:

• support for customizing configuration of session repositories using new SessionRepositoryCustomizer/ReactiveSessionRepositoryCustomizer

• support for configuring transactional behavior for JdbcOperationsSessionRepository

• support for Spring Security’s AuthenticatedPrincipal in SpringSessionBackedSessionRegistry

…

In response to our nohttp announcement, Maven Central’s announcement, and JFrog’s announcement, beginning January 15 2020, Spring’s Maven Repository will no longer support HTTP. More concretely, http://repo.spring.io will not respond to requests. Users will need to ensure that they are using https://repo.spring.io

We are not going to redirect from http to https because it perpetuates the vulnerability. When the first request is made over http, a man in the middle (MITM) can prevent the redirect and replace the response with a malicious payload. Users that continue to use http will continue to…