In this week's installment I talk to Google Cloud developer advocate, fellow Java Champion and prolific speaker and open source contributor in the Kubernetes and Spring communities, Ray Tsang.

Listen to the Podcast on SoundCloud or on iTunes, among other places.

This is part 5 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

Here are all the installments:

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service
• Bootiful Azure: To Production!
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Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips, we look at how to integrate Spring with JavaFX, a UI framework that supports building rich desktop applications.

speaker: Josh Long

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.1.0.RC1 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's New?

As a follow up to 2.1.0.M2, this release primarily encompasses minor enhancements and bug fixes.

What Do You Think?

We look forward to your feedback on these new features in Github, StackOverflow, Gitter, or directly via Twitter to @michaelminella or @cppwfs!

Spring Cloud Task Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

This post was authored by Vedran Pavić

On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session BOM Bean-SR2 (based on Spring Session 2.1.3.RELEASE), Apple-SR8 (based on 2.0.9.RELEASE), and 1.3.5.RELEASE. These maintenance releases bring a couple of bug fixes together with the usual dependency upgrades.

Complete details of these releases can be found in the following changelogs:

• 2.1.3.RELEASE

• 2.0.9.RELEASE

• 1.3.5.RELEASE

Project Page | Documentation | Issues | Gitter | Stack Overflow

The Spring Framework has migrated its entire history of issues from Jira to GitHub. The goal of this blog post is to provide you with context and details about this move.

Migration Details

The entire 15+ year history of every Spring Framework issue, and every comment, has been imported into GitHub. There is a lot to consider in such a move, so let's take a tour and go over some details.

Links

If you have a link to an existing issue, e.g. https://jira.spring.io/browse/SPR-16751, you'll be redirected to the corresponding GitHub issue. If you actually mean to go to the Jira issue, append the query parameter redirect=false. On the GitHub side, the imported issue has a link…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I've just returned from Montreal, Canada and tomorrow I'm off to Dallas, Texas for customer visits. This time of year is marked by pronounced climate changes and the optimism for a new year ahead. I love it. That optimism is certainly visible in today's roundup. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• You know, I never know what people will find interesting in our wonderful community! It's for this reason that I try to cover as many topics as possible in the Spring Tips series. The latest installment has proven to be popular! Almost 100 likes no YouTube as of this writing. In it, I look at business process management with the Apache 2 licensed Flowable BPMN and CMMN engine
• The Spring Framework team just migrated from JIRA to Github issues. It was not easy. Read here to learn about what happened and how it happened
• Spring Session Bean-SR2, Apple-SR8, and 1.3.5 Released
• …

This is part 4 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

Here are all the installments:

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service
• Bootiful Azure: To Production!
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.2 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes over 60 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …