Spring Boot 1.5.20 available now
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.20 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.
Spring Boot 1.5.20 is a maintenance release that includes over 30 dependency updates and selected bug fixes. These upgrades include Spring Security OAuth 2.0.17 which addresses a recently announced CVE.
If you haven’t already upgraded to Spring Boot 2, please consider doing so as support for 1.x will end on August 1st 2019.
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…
Spring Boot 2.0.9 Released
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.9 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.
This is a maintenance release that includes almost 40 dependency updates and selected bug fixes.
This is the last release in 2.0 line. Please consider upgrading to Spring Boot 2.1 if you haven't already done so.
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…
Event-driven Java with Spring Cloud Stream and Azure Event Hubs [Guest Post]
Asir Selvasingh | Principal PM Architect | Microsoft – Java on Azure
Spring Cloud Stream Binder for Azure Event Hubs is now generally available.
It is simple to build highly scalable event-driven Java apps using Spring Cloud Stream with Event Hubs, a fully managed, real-time data ingestion service on Azure that is resilient and reliable service for any situation; this includes emergencies, thanks to its geo-disaster recovery and geo-replication features.
Spring Cloud Stream provides a binder abstraction for popular message broker implementations. It provides a flexible programming model…
This Week in Spring - April 2nd, 2019
Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in New York City for the Kafka Summit where I'll be joining the excellent Tim Berglund, head of developer experience at Confluent, and James Watters, SVP at Pivotal, to talk about why Pivotal and Confluent are better together. Join us! Then, next week it's off to South Africa (for the SpringOne Tour shows in Capetown and Johannesburg and then it's off to to Mauritius for the DevConf. If you're in any of those places, don't hesitate to say hi!.

And without further ado, let's get to it!
- Spring Framework 5.1.6, 5.0.13 and 4.3.23 available now
- Spring Tools 4.2.0 released
- Last week on A Bootiful Podcast (@BootifulPodcast) I talked to Josh Mckenty about data sovereignty, microservices, Cloud Foundry, Python, the cloud, Pivotal, and more
- If you get one blog to read, read this one on the Reactor Debugging Experience. It's amazing!
- Spring Tool Suite 3.9.8 released
- Want to know what makes Pivotal Cloud Foundry the best place to run Spring Boot applications?
- Focus on Integration Tests Instead of Mock-Based Tests
- A gentle reminder that you should …
Spring Framework 5.1.6, 5.0.13 and 4.3.23 available now
On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.6.
, 5.0.13
and 4.3.23
are available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now.
Spring Framework 5.1.6
includes 49 fixes and improvements. Spring Framework 5.0.13
is the last regular release of the 5.0.x
line and includes 25 fixes and selected improvements. At this point, we expect all 5.x
users to upgrade to 5.1.6
. We've also released 4.3.23
that includes 20 fixes and selected improvements.
As usual, those maintenance releases will be used for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.20
, 2.0.9
, 2.1.4
releases coming up later…
A Bootiful Podcast: Josh Mckenty - "Better Josh" - on data sovereignty, microservices, Cloud Foundry, Python, the cloud, Pivotal, and more
Hi Spring fans! In this week's installment of a Bootiful Podcast I, Josh Long, welcome Josh Mckenty - or "better Josh," as I affectionately call him - to the show to discuss Pivotal, Cloud Foundry, Python, microservices, and data sovereignty, among other things.
Spring Tools 4.2.0 released
Dear Spring Community,
I am happy to announce the 4.2.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Atom.
Highlights from this release include:
- (Spring Boot) new: Allow configuration of VM arguments for LSP process "PropertiesLauncher" (#211)
- (Spring Boot) performance: major performance improvements to symbol indexing infrastructure by caching created symbols across language server starts
- (Spring Boot) performance: replaced internal type indexing with communication to JDT (language server) to save time and memory spend for keeping our own type index
- (Eclipse) new: distribution updated to Eclipse 2019-03
- (Eclipse) new: enables Spring JMX support now by default in Spring Boot launch configs
- various additional bug fixes and improvements …
Reactor Debugging Experience
In the Project Reactor team, we believe that the debugging experience of the libraries you rely upon is as important as, let's say, the feature set or performance.
Today, we're excited to announce two new experimental projects in the Reactor family!
BlockHound - a new kid on the block
One of the most common rookie mistakes is to block Java threads that are supposed to run only non-blocking code (e.g., Schedulers.parallel()
).
It is one of the most harmful issues because you may block unrelated processing or even create a deadlock!
Consider the following code:
Flux.range(0, Runtime.getRuntime…
Spring Tool Suite 3.9.8 released
Dear Spring Community,
Hey!
I am happy to announce the 3.9.8 maintenance release of the Spring Tool Suite 3 (STS3).
Highlights from this release include:
- updated to Eclipse 2019-03 release
- quick text search allows you to switch between modal and non-modal mode
- quick test search allows you to limit search scope to specific files
- new tab for running boot apps that show live data from the apps environment
- various bug fixes
To download the distributions, please go visit:
- Spring Tool Suite 3: https://spring.io/tools3/sts/all
- Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.8 New & Noteworthy. …