On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Greenwich Release Train

For a complete list of issues in this release across all projects see the project page on GitHub.

Spring Cloud Contract

• Added support for binary payloads (GH-818)

Spring Cloud Security

• Spring Cloud Gateway Filter added to support OAuth2 (GH-141). A sample application demonstrating its use is available here.
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NOTE: This is a guest post from our friends at Alibaba.

Hello everyone! Today, we’re very excited to announce that the 0.2.1.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Alibaba is available now.

Release highlights:

• Added two new modules to Spring Cloud Alibaba: spring-cloud-alibaba-schedulerx and spring-cloud-stream-binder-rocketmq.
• Added some new features in spring-cloud-alibaba-nacos and spring-cloud-alibaba-sentinel.
• Fixed some bugs in the previous version.

Notes:

• The Spring Cloud Alibaba project is a community project maintained by Alibaba.

• The 0.2.1.RELEASE is compatible with Spring Cloud Finchley. Also included in this version is a 0.1.1.RELEASE, which is compatible with Spring Cloud Edgware. 0.1.1.RELEASE also contains the components and features that are new in 0.2.1.

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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.0 M1 Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

Hand in hand is the 2.0 M1 release of Spring Cloud Skipper which has been updated to depend upon Spring Boot 2.1. The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

Here are the highlights for Data Flow

• Stream deployment always delegates to Skipper

• Single server that runs on all supported platforms

• Update to Boot 2.1

• Standardize on OAuth2 and OpenID Connect for Security

• Update internals to use JPA

• UI improvements

• Task/Job Execution and Performance improvements

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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.1.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Eclipse) updated to Eclipse 2018-12 release
• (Eclipse) live hovers now combine JavaDoc and live information from running boot apps
• (Eclipse) boot dashboard now shows live request mappings and beans for reactive web boot apps, too
• (Spring Boot) initial content-assist support for Spring Data repository definitions
• (CF Manifest) added support for new buildpacks attribute
• various bug fixes

To download the distribution for Eclipse…

We're please to announce the release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.1.0. This release supports additions and changes in the Open Service Broker API v2.14. This release includes:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.0.7.RELEASE
• Support for asynchronous service instance binding and unbinding
• Support providing an updated dashboard_url when updating a service instance
• Resolves issues with deserializing the model objects that were converted to the builder pattern
• Adds a convenience property to the various request objects for accessing the Plan for the specified ServiceDefinition

Include the following…

We're please to announce the release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.0.0.M3. This 3.0 release will support Spring WebFlux and a reactive programing model, as well as additions and changes in the Open Service Broker API v2.14. This release includes:

• Upgrade to Spring Boot 2.1.1.RELEASE (previously built against Spring Boot 2.0)
• Adds a convenience property to the various request objects for accessing the Plan for the specified ServiceDefinition

Include the following Spring Boot starter:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-cloud-starter-open…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.1.0.M2 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's New?

Spring Cloud Task 2.1.0.M2 is intended to be the version of the framework aligned with Spring Boot 2.1.0. Updates from 2.1.0.M1 include:

• Update all dependencies.
• By popular demand, @EnableTask is back.
• Bug Fixes.

Let's walk through these updates in more detail.

@EnableTask is back

By popular demand, @EnableTask is back, with a twist! In this case, AutoConfiguration is still being used to create the TaskExplorer, TaskConfigurer, and other beans but does not create the TaskLifecycleListener (the bean that adds the Task Lifecycle to your application). The TaskLifecycleListener bean is created when a user adds the @EnableTask to…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at using the nascent R2DBC abstraction supporting reactive SQL data access and then introduce the Spring Data R2DBC project that supports typical Spring Data idioms like repositories.

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans!

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just wrapped up the last two talks or workshops I'll do this year. Yesterday we spent four hours looking at Reactive Spring and today we spent four hours looking at Spring Boot and Kotlin. I love doing these sorts of trainings because I really get to dive deep on topics with my audiences. It's, truly, one of the rare pleasures in an otherwise hectic schedule. Needless to say, I am super relaxed and happy as I write this and I hope you are too!

You realize it's already December 18th, 2018, already? Gee time flies when you're having fun! The next installment of This Week in Spring is on the 25th, which, for some in the world, is the holiday Christmas. If that includes you, then let us be the first to …