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.

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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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I’m pleased to announce the general availability release of Spring CredHub 2.0.0, available now in Maven Central.

CredHub

CredHub provides centralized credential management to the Cloud Foundry platform. CredHub implements an HTTP API to securely store, generate, retrieve, and delete credentials of various types.

Spring CredHub provides a Java binding for the CredHub API, making it easy to integrate Spring applications with CredHub.

What’s New

The Spring CredHub 2.0.0 release includes the following enhancements:

• Supports CredHub server versions 1.x and 2.x, and the CredHub v1 and v2 APIs

• Provides compatibility with Spring Framework 5.1 and Spring Boot 2.1

• Addition of a reactive interface using Reactor

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Spring Cloud Stream has recently added a feature to compose a function definition into an existing Spring Cloud Stream application. In this blog, we'll see how Spring Cloud Data Flow makes use of this feature to compose functions in Streaming pipelines.

What’s different about it?

In Spring Cloud Data Flow, streaming data pipelines are comprised of Spring Cloud Stream applications. A developer can pick and choose the out-of-the-box streaming applications, which cover many common use cases. A developer can also extend these out-of-the-box applications or create custom applications by using…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at how to use the Apache 2 licensed Flowable BPMN 2 workflow engine with Spring.

speaker: Josh Long

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.4, 5.0.12 and 4.3.22 are available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now.

5.1.4 is a significant refinement release, addressing several regressions and gaps that have been identified since 5.1 GA, coming as an immediate upgrade for all 5.1.x users.

Please note that 5.0.12 is the last planned 5.0.x release, with 5.0 approaching its EOL in March 2019. All 5.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade to 5.1.4+ for further fixes and refinements.

The 4.3.x line reaches an extended support phase now, with no regular…

We are pleased to announce general availability of the Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.RELEASE.

Individual modules of Spring Cloud Function 2.0.0.RELEASE are available for use in the Spring Release repository as well as Maven Central repository.

This release encompasses the following:

• Kotlin support
• New programming model for Azure Functions
• Automatic (optional) export of Supplier on startup in web adapter
• Functional Bean Registrations
• Support for transparent type conversion for functions with input of type Collection
• Builds on Spring Boot 2.1

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-cloud-function tag…

After an exciting journey, we are pleased to announce the General Availability release of the Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown release train - Fishtown.RELEASE/2.1.0.RELEASE.

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Fishtown.RELEASE</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown (2.1.0.RELEASE) is available for use in Maven Central and the Spring Repo…