Hi Spring fans! In this episode we talk to fellow Apress author, Spring R&D manager, Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella about all things task and batch processing with Spring, South Africa, and so much more.

• Michael Minella on Twitter (@michaelminella)

I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Batch 4.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

The major feature of this release is the addition of batch metrics with Micrometer.

Batch Metrics with Micrometer

This release introduces a new feature that lets you monitor your batch jobs by using Micrometer. By default, Spring Batch collects metrics (such as job duration, step duration, item read and write throughput, and others) and registers them in Micrometer's global metrics registry under the spring.batch prefix. These metrics can be sent to any monitoring system supported by…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the just-announced Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker project, which provides an abstraction atop Netflix' Hystrix, Resilience4J, Alibaba's Sentinel and Spring Retry and supports reactive and non-reactive circuits.

speaker: Josh Long twitter: @starbuxman

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode and Pivotal GemFire (SBDG) 1.0.0.RC1.

This is another significant milestone and SBDG 1.0 is less than a week away from final GA.

The new bits, org.springframework.geode:spring-geode-starter:1.0.0.RC1, are available in the Spring libs-milestone repository, here.

What’s New

This release adds several new features with some significant improvements and important bug fixes:

• Added auto-configuration support to automatically configure a GemfireTemplate for each GemFire/Geode Region defined in the GemFire/Geode cache. Read more

• Added chapter on "Auto-configuration vs. Annotation-based configuration" to the reference guide. Read more

• To compliment the chapter, added a new sample to explain and show Spring Boot’s auto-configuration support for GemFire/Geode in action. Read more

• Fixed a bug in the HTTP client used to push cluster configuration from a client to a standalone GemFire/Geode cluster, or PCC environment, with Security (Auth) enabled. Read more

• Switched Reference Docs to the HTML5 format. See here.

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HI Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in sunny California, then it's off to Istanbul, Turkey for the epic SpringOne Tour event, and then it's off to Chicago, Illinois for the better-and-better GOTO Chicago show. I hope to see you there!

We've got a busy week in Spring so without further ado let's get to it!

• Preview releases of Spring Cloud Alibaba are available: 0.9.0, 0.2.2, and 0.1.2
• A Bootiful Podcast: Pivotal Field CTO and OG Cloud Native Matt Stine on Architecture
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.1.0.M1 released
• Spring Tools 4.2.1 released
• CVE-2019-3799: Spring Cloud Config 2.1.2, 2.0.4, 1.4.6 Released
• Spring Cloud Task 2.2.0.M1 is now available
• Flight of the Flux 2 - Debugging Caveats
• Introducing Spring Cloud Circuit Breaker
• Spring Security 5.2.0.M2 Released
• Spring Boot 2.2 M2
• CVE-2019-3801: Java Projects using HTTP to fetch dependencies
• …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast. In this episode, recorded in lovely Johannesburg, South Africa for the SpringOne Tour event, I'm joined by my buddy and one of the original cloud natives, Matt Stine!

• Matt's Twitter (@mstine)

NOTE: This is a guest post from our friends at Alibaba.

Hi! Today, we’re very excited to announce that the 0.9.0, 0.2.2, and 0.1.2 releases of Spring Cloud Alibaba are now available.

Release Highlight

Included in this GA are 3 new releases:

• Release 0.9.0: Compatible with Spring Cloud Greenwich
• Release 0.2.2: Compatible with Spring Cloud Finchley
• Release 0.1.2: Compatible with Spring Cloud Edgware

Four new modules were added to all three releases:

• spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel-zuul
• spring-cloud-alibaba-seata
• spring-cloud-alibaba-dubbo (not available in Release 0.1.2)
• spring-cloud-alibaba-sms
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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of a 2.1.0 M1 milestone-release. Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

What’s new?

SCDF Helm Chart and Apache Kafka

With continued interest from the community, as of v2.0.2, we have now added support to toggle between RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka when using SCDF’s helm chart. Though the chart is in the PR status in Helm repository, you could still try it out and give us feedback.

Docker Compose and Apache Kafka

To continue with the same trend in regards to Apache Kafka, along with regular Apache Kafka binder properties, we have now also added support for Kafka Streams binder properties; likewise, we have switched to use the official Confluent’s Docker image as part of the Docker Compose getting-started experience…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.2.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) performance: additional performance and memory footprint improvements to symbol indexing, now eats less memory and is faster while doing the initial indexing run
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist for bean types in Spring XML config files
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist for property names in Spring XML config files
• (Spring Boot) new: content-assist for bean references in property definitions in Spring XML config files (very rough early cut, needs a lot more work on proposal content, number of proposals, and sorting)
• (Eclipse) fixed: empty property values in custom properties not set when launching boot apps (#275…