Hi Spring fans! In this installment we talk to Oleg Zhurakousky, lead of the Spring Cloud Stream project, an application integration and messaging wonk, and a prolific contributor to Spring Integration. Oleg also has the dubious honor of being one of my oldest friends on the Spring team - poor guy!

Twitter: @z_oleg Twitter: @SpringCloud

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we answer the question, "how do I propagate state across asynchronous, reactive execution pipelines?"

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! Can you believe we're already staring down February?? I'm still shaking off the vacation feels from the holiday break. I'm at the airport, SFO, a few minutes after midnite in PST, waiting to board for my flight to Houston, a connection en route to Charlotte, North Carolina, for the epic SpringOne Tour event - the first of a brand new year! I look forward to seeing y'all there!

Anyway, we've got tons to get to so let's!

• Spring Tools 4.1.1 released - this new release is packed with tons of features, don't miss it!
• LISTEN: in this latest installment of my podcast, A Bootiful Podcast, I interview Spring Boot legend Madhura Bhave. Don't miss it!
• WATCH: In last week's installment of Spring Tips I look at hedging client requests with the reactive WebClient and a service registry as supported by Spring Cloud's DiscoveryClient abstraction.
• Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR7
• Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR16
• Spring Cloud Greenwich.RELEASE is now available
• …

In this installment of the pod we talk to Madhura Bhave, an engineer on the Spring Boot team who has improved the project in big ways - working on things like security, actuator, OAuth and more - since she moved from her epic run on the Cloud Foundry and UAA teams. We recorded this interview in August of 2018.

Twitter: @madhurabhave23 Twitter: @SpringBoot

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.1.1 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.

Highlights from this release include:

• (Spring Boot) easy navigation via symbols now available for regular Spring projects (not using Spring Boot)
• (Spring Boot) live hover for beans and bean wirings now available for regular Spring projects (not using Spring Boot)
• (Spring Boot) support for deprecated propertied added to property editors, including corresponding quick fixes
• (Eclipse) boot dashboard now shows environment information including all properties and their values for running boot apps
• (Eclipse) default distribution brings back support for local Tomcat servers and deploying war-packaged boot apps to those local servers
• …

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR16 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 1.7.12
• Spring Batch 3.0.10
• Spring Boot 1.5.19
• Spring Data Ingalls SR18
• Spring Framework 4.3.22
• Spring Integration 4.3.19
• Spring Security 4.2.11
• Spring Session 1.3.5
• Spring Web Services 2.4.4

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR7 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Reactor Bismuth-SR15
• Spring AMQP 2.0.11
• Spring Batch 4.0.2
• Spring Data Kay-SR13
• Spring Framework 5.0.12
• Spring Integration 5.0.11
• Spring Kafka 2.1.12
• Spring REST Docs 2.0.3
• Spring Retry 1.2.3
• Spring Security 5.0.11
• Spring Session Apple-SR8
• Spring Web Services 3.0.6

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | …

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at how to use the reactive WebFlux client to make a number of concurrent requests to distinct service instances (discovered using a service registry like Netflix Eureka or Consul through the Spring Cloud DiscoveryClient abstraction) and meet SLAs by using the fastest request to return.

speaker: Josh Long

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud Greenwich Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Greenwich release notes for more information.

End of Life (EOL) Reminder

The Edgware release train will reach EOL status on August 1st, 2019. You can read the formal announcement here.

The Spring Cloud Finchley release train is considered a major release and is tied to the Spring Boot 2.0.x release. Therefore, the Spring Cloud Finchley release train will reach EOL status when…