Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. I've just returned from Montreal, Canada and tomorrow I'm off to Dallas, Texas for customer visits. This time of year is marked by pronounced climate changes and the optimism for a new year ahead. I love it. That optimism is certainly visible in today's roundup. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• You know, I never know what people will find interesting in our wonderful community! It's for this reason that I try to cover as many topics as possible in the Spring Tips series. The latest installment has proven to be popular! Almost 100 likes no YouTube as of this writing. In it, I look at business process management with the Apache 2 licensed Flowable BPMN and CMMN engine
• The Spring Framework team just migrated from JIRA to Github issues. It was not easy. Read here to learn about what happened and how it happened
• Spring Session Bean-SR2, Apple-SR8, and 1.3.5 Released
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This is part 4 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

Here are all the installments:

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service
• Bootiful Azure: To Production!
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On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.2 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes over 60 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.1, 4.0.2, and 3.0.10 are available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

These releases contain security and bug fixes as well as dependencies updates. We recommend users upgrade to one of these versions. Please find the change log for each version in the following links: 4.1.1 | 4.0.2 | 3.0.10

As we announced earlier, please note that v3.0.10 is the last planned release for the 3.x line, so we highly recommend users to upgrade to the latest possible version.

P.S.: We have started work on v4.2, which will focus on performance++ ! Stay tuned!

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On behalf of the community I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.1.3 (changelog), 5.0.11 (changelog), and 4.2.11 (changelog). This series of releases provides a round of bug fixes and users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.19 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.19 is a maintenance release that includes 17 dependency updates.

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…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.8 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 35 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …

This is part 3 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn't have put this together without input from Microsoft's Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you're reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

Here are all the installments:

• Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure
• Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server
• Bootiful Azure: Global Scale Data Access with CosmosDB
• Bootiful Azure: Integration with Azure Service Bus
• Bootiful Azure: Object Storage Service
• Bootiful Azure: To Production!
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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the Lovelace SR4, Kay SR13, and Ingalls SR18 maintenance releases. Today's releases pick up the latest Spring Framework maintenance releases: 5.1.4, 5.0.12, and 4.3.22, respectively. The upcoming Spring Boot releases (2.1.2, 2.0.8, and 1.5.19) are going to pick up Lovelace SR4, Kay SR13, and Ingalls SR18, for your convenience.

The service releases ship with bug fixes and dependency upgrades and address over 170 tickets in total. You can find the complete list of tickets by following the links below:

• Lovelace SR4
• Kay SR13
• Ingalls SR18
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