On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Lovelace RC2 release. This ships in preparation of Spring Boot 2.1 M2 and, of course, our own GA release mid-September. The release ships with 82 tickets fixed. You can find more details in the the updated and curated release wiki.

A pretty late but significant new feature has made it into the release: deferred repository initialization for Spring Data JPA. The feature allows your startup to use Spring Framework's JPA background initialization option more effectively and can significantly cut down startup time. See the previewing example…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that our second Spring Framework 5.1 release candidate is available from our milestone repository now.

Spring Framework 5.1 RC2 comes with dependency updates such as the latest Reactor Californium M2, RxJava 2.2, and JUnit 5.3 RC1. It addresses several reported issues on JDK 11 and GraalVM (tracking their release candidates) and provides further refinements within our 5.1 themes, in particular with respect to log output and startup performance.

This is the foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.1 M2 release next week. We're aiming for a…

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On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Session BOM Bean-M1 and Apple-SR4. Spring Boot users will be happy to learn that these release were picked up in recent 2.1.0.M1 and 2.0.4.RELEASE releases of Spring Boot, respectively.

Spring Session Bean-M1

The Bean-M1 is first milestone release that is based on Spring Session 2.1.0.M1.

The following table provides an overview of all the included modules and their respective versions:

Module

Version

Spring Session Core

2.1.0.M1

Spring Session Data GemFire

2.0.3.RELEASE

Spring…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in San Francisco, Seattle, and Los Angeles talking to customers.

We on the Spring team are heads down, preparing for this year's event-to-not-miss, SpringOne Platform. Come to learn about cloud-native application development, cloud computing, agile, devops, big-data, continuous-delivery, testing, and so much more. Get your tickets now! The event is September 24-27th, 2018 in Washington, D.C.

..Speaking of! See this kid? He just passed his Java camp certification and if he gets 1000 likes/RTs, Pivotal'll send him to SpringOne Platform. …

We’re pleased to announce that the 2.0.1 release of Spring Cloud Open Service Broker is now available. This release resolves a few issues that were raised since the 2.0.0 release. Thank you to the community for your interest and feedback!

Spring Cloud Open Service Broker is a framework for building Spring Boot applications that implement the Open Service Broker API. The Open Service Broker API project allows developers to deliver services to applications running within cloud native platforms such as Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

Dear Spring Community!

Today, together with Google Cloud team, I’m very excited to announce that Spring Cloud for Google Cloud Platform project of version 1.0 is Generally Available at last!

This project has started as a collaboration with the Google Cloud team (and we really appreciate their effort) and aims to implement and expose well-know Spring Framework patterns and abstractions to bring the benefits of Spring and Spring Boot to Java developers using GCP services. Together we spent many hours (more than a year!) discussing the best APIs and approaches which should be convenient and…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.1.0.M1

Spring Cloud Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

Focus on Cloud Foundry manifest:

This milestone release adds a new feature to perform the lifecycle operations to install, upgrade, rollback and delete on any applications that can be deployed into Cloud Foundry using the Cloud Foundry manifest…

HI Spring fans! This week I'm in Miami for the Java User Group and at home working on new episodes of Spring Tips. Just trying to keep moving! It's been a whirlwind week in Spring, though, so let's get to it!

• Reactor team ninja Simon Baslé has just announced the first milestone of the Californium release train of project Reactor
• This is a nice example of using Spring Data JDBC with JOOQ.. in the Spring Data examples!
• Happy Birthday Istio! This post looks at how Pivotal embeds the service mesh to Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes, and Knative
• Ryan Baxter has just announced the first release of Spring Cloud Finchley, SR1
• Our very own Paul Czarkowski has just published a fairly lengthy tutorial on deploying Spinnaker to Pivotal Container Service (or any Kubernetes) using Helm and then creating pipelines in Spinnaker to deploy applications to PKS/Kubernetes. This is awesome…

On behalf of the Reactor team, I have the pleasure of announcing the newest Reactor milestone, Californium-M1 ? ?

The team has been busy working on Californium, the third major installment of Reactor 3. We are now ready for your feedback on a few select issues, and we have a lot of enhancements and bug fixes ready for your consumption as well.

Californium-M1 BOM

For its third release train, we continue on the theme of alphabetically increasing names on the periodic table of elements. Californium is an element first synthesized in California.

The milestone's BOM contains:

• reactor-core 3.2.0.M3
• reactor-extra 3.2.0.M1 (with a few API alignment changes)
• reactor-netty 0.8.0.M1
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