On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Camden Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Milestone repository. This is mostly a bug fix release as Camden prepares for General Availability (GA). You can check out the Camden release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Camden Release Train

Spring Cloud Contract is a new project that provides support for Consumer Driven Contracts and service schemas in Spring applications. Spring Cloud Netflix supports customization of Ribbon component classes via properties, uses the new community maintained OpenFeign and made various fixes and improvements to Zuul. Spring Cloud Consul adds support for Spring Cloud Bus using Consul's event api. The CLI adds a spring cloud…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.3.0.M2. This release release closes lots of community submitted Pull Requests. For a complete list of changes see the changelog.

Note

Spring Session 1.3.0.M1 release had some problems, so we followed up with an immediate release of Spring Session 1.3.0.M2

What’s New in Spring Session 1.3.0 M2

Highlights include:

• First Class Support for Hazelcast

• First class Spring Security’s concurrent session management

• Redis Sample with GenericJackson2JsonRedisSerializer

• spring.session.cleanup.cron.expression can be used to override the cleanup task’s cron expression

• Lots of performance improvements and bug fixes

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been an amazing week here in China, hanging out with Alibaba and Huawei, bringing the Spring. This week it's off to Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong!

Our pal Pieter Humphrey has been busy this week getting the SpringOne Platform 2016 videos up and online for us to enjoy so there's a lot of good stuff this week! Thanks Pieter!

• Want see Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack present and live demo their way through Spring Cloud Data Flow on September 29th? Reserve your seat now!
• Want to learn what's new in Spring Framework 4.3? Join Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller for this look at an awesome framework
• I liked this talk from Home Depot on what 12 Factor applications means to a Java Developer and turns out it was one of the top attended at the conference!
• I gave an almost 2 hour long talk at SpringOne Platform 2016 called Cloud Native Java covering Spring Boot (REST…

Speakers: Mark Pollack, Mark Fisher Spring Cloud Data Flow enables you to create data pipelines for many common use-cases such as data ingestion, real-time analytics and data import/export. In this webinar, we will introduce Spring Cloud Data Flow’s architecture and walk through the orchestration capabilities of long-running and short-lived data-centric applications on multiple runtime platforms such as Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, Apache Mesos and Apache YARN. Spring Cloud Data Flow represents the evolution of Spring XD and retains the DSL to define data pipelines as well as the web based UI…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Thomas Gamble, Home Depot Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/Pivotal/12-factor-or-cloud-native-apps-what-exactly-does-that-mean-for-spring-developers-64853692

Your team is excited about getting started with Spring Boot and Cloud Native, but you're not entirely sure you're ready to have the team continuously delivering to prod using cf push from their local desktops. The freedom of cloud native development can be very empowering for developers, but it shouldn't be something that terrifies the operations and security teams. We'll discuss how you can…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/cloud-native-java

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.” -W. Edwards Deming

Work takes time to flow through an organization and ultimately be deployed to production where it captures value. It’s critical to reduce time-to-production. Software - for many organizations and industries - is a competitive advantage. Organizations break their larger software ambitions into smaller, independently deployable, feature -centric batches of work - microservices. In order to reduce the round-trip…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Jüergen Hoeller Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/modern-java-component-design-with-spring-framework-43

Spring's programming and configuration model has a strong design philosophy with respect to application components and configuration artifacts. Spring's annotation-based component story is fine-tuned for source code readability as well as consistency across an entire application's codebase. This session presents selected Spring Framework 4 component model highlights, with a focus on the current Spring Framework 4.3 and a selection…

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Mark Thomas Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/apache-tomcat-roadmap

Development of Apache Tomcat continues at a strong pace. This presentation will cover: Future development plans (features, timing) Current work Overview of new features available now in Tomcat 9 / Tomcat 8.5

• SNI
• OpenSSL based TLS
• OAuth (via JASPIC)

Why do we need Tomcat 8.5? Migrating from older versions End-of-life plans for older versions Progress towards a Servlet 4.0 implementation

As a result of attending this presentation, the audience will gain an…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.0.3.RELEASE and 1.1.0.M1 are now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's new in Spring Cloud Task 1.0.3.RELEASE

1.0.3.RELEASE represents the next minor release for the 1.0.x branch. It's a minor update that cleans up the dependency management within the project to be in alignment with how the rest of the Spring Cloud portfolio manages it's dependencies.

What's new in Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.M1

Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0's main theme is to…