Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to friends - Mercy Ma (马昕曦), Andy Shi (施孜海), and Jim Fang (方剑) - from Alibaba. These engineers work on Spring Cloud Alibaba, some of the open source infrastructure coming out of Alibaba designed to support Spring applications running at Alibaba, and more.

• The Reactive Foundation
• My Reactive Spring webinar series
• Apache RocketMQ
• Spring Cloud for Alibaba
• My Spring Tips video introducing some of Spring Cloud Alibaba

Hi, Spring fans! In this first installment of Spring Tips season 7, we look at how to lock down RSocket services with Spring Security.

By Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, we look at using Spring Security and RSocket together. RSocket is a payload and platform agonostic wire protocol developed by engineers at Netflix and Facebook that supports the Reactive Streams concepts on the wire. The protocol is a stateful-connection centric protocol: a requester node connects and stays connected to another responder node. Once connected, either side can transmit information…

We are pleased to announce the release of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 (3.0.2.RELEASE) release train which is available as part of Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR2 (just released) and builds on Spring Boot 2.2.4 and Spring Cloud Function 3.0.2.RELEASE which was also just released.

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 modules are available for use in the Maven Central repository.

This release contains several fixes and enhancements primarily driven by user's feedback, so thank you. For more details please follow these links:

• Spring Cloud Stream Core
• Spring Cloud Stream Core Rabbit Binder
• Spring Cloud Stream Core Kafka Binder
• Spring Cloud Function
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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm off to sunny Atlanta, Georgia, for the epic Devnexus show there. If you're there, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi! I'm also busy recording new episodes of a Bootiful Podcast and new Spring Tips videos videos. We have some amazing guests on the show coming up and we have some really fascinating topics to introduce in our Spring Tips videos, too!

• Announcing: The NEW Spring Website!
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Vedran Pavic on Spring Session, Croatia, and so much more
• Spring Boot 2.3.0.M2 available now
• Spring Boot and Spring Cloud in 15 minutes
• Spring Integration 5.3 Milestone 2 Available
• Spring Data Neumann M3 released
• Happy birthday to the Cloud Foundry foundation!
• InfoQ hhas a really nice look at various, recent feveloper surveys and their results. One conclusion's inescapable: Spring Boot is a tour de force! Thank you communuty for being so amazing.
• Want to learn about the latest and greatest in Spring…

Spring is constantly evolving and always innovating while being consistent where it matters: delivering a reliable framework to help you build maintainable software, faster. In the last few years, the Spring contributors have worked hard to bring the predictable Spring experience to microservices, serverless, streams, reactive, batch, data, and new languages like Kotlin. Over the coming year, you'll see many more examples of this, including some cool new features that we're just dying to share with you.

However, there was one area of Spring that we felt was desperately in need of some love and…

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

This release closes 120 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Improvement of our Docker image support
• Upgrade to MongoDB 4 (still in beta)
• Support of wildcard locations for configuration files
• Numerous dependency upgrades

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…

Hi, Spring fans! In today's episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to community member and Spring Session teammate Vedran Pavic (@vedran_pavic).

• Vedran on Github
• Vedran on Twitter (@vedran_pavic)
• Spring Session

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to yet another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a very nice week indeed. I've been knee-deep in finishing my book, writing more code to support the A Bootiful Podcast production pipeline, and meeting amazing people in the new VMWare organization, and beyond. I've also been working on some new Spring Tips videos - what would you like to see covered, my friends?

We've got a lot of good stuff this week, so let's get to it!

• In last week's installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Oleg Šelajev on ZeroTurnaround, GraalVM, the vJUG and so much more
• Spring Security 4.2.14 Released
• Spring Security 5.2.2, 5.1.8 and 5.0.14 Released
• Spring Security 5.3.0.RC1 Released
• Oh, btw, did you know that the BOM and some choice starters for the Alibaba integrations for Spring are now available on the Spring Initializr?
• I published my monthly digest This Month in Spring over on the Pivotal blog, as usual.
• The Simplest Way to Deploy Spring Boot with PostgreSQL on AWS
• Mutation Testing: Case Studies on Spring Boot APIs
• …

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m pleased to announce the third milestone of the Neumann release train. This release ships exactly 75 tickets fixed and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.3 M2 in the near future.

The most important new features are:

• Upgrade to MongoDB driver 4 (beta).
• Joda-Time and ThreeTenBackport support is now deprecated in favor of JSR-310.
• Geo Distance sort support in Elasticsearch.
• Quoting of table and column names in Spring Data JDBC enabled by default.

You can find a curated changelog in our release train wiki or skim through a full list of changes in JIRA.

The…