Hi Spring fans! In today's installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Gradle Developer Advocate Jenn Strater (@codeJENNerator) about Gradle, Groovy, Spring REST Docs, and so much more.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.9, 5.0.15, and 4.3.25 are available now.

Spring Framework 5.1.9 includes 38 fixes and improvements and is a recommended upgrade for all 5.x users. Spring Framework 5.0.15 includes 16 selected fixes while Spring Framework 4.3.25 includes 10 selected fixes.

Next up is Spring Framework 5.2 RC1 coming up early next week followed by the usual Spring Boot releases, stay tuned!

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It is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Boot for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire/Pivotal Cloud Cache (SBDG) 1.1.0.RC1.

This is the 1st of 2 release candidates before the final GA, tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, August 14th, 2019. Be on the lookout for the SBDG 1.1.0.RELEASE then.

You make acquire the new SBDG 1.1.0.RC1 bits from Spring’s libs-milestone repo here, or by declaring the following dependency declaration in your Maven POM:

Maven Dependency

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.geode</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-geode-starter</artifactId>
  <version>1.1.0.RC…

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the GA release of 2.2.0.

In this GA release, Spring Cloud Data Flow team has worked on some of the key features including task application management, stability on the product by increasing the acceptance tests coverage across platforms (local, Kubernetes and Cloud Foundry), bug fixes and enhancements.

Task Application Management

It is now possible to stop and delete task executions using the SCDF Dashboard and the Shell. We have added support for task application monitoring using micrometer integration. The core of the Micrometer…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring. This week I'm in sweet San Francisco, soaking up the sun and enjoying the fun of summer. Sure, I've got a few meetings, and appearances, etc., but it is very nice to be home. By the by, I'll be speaking at the upcoming San Francisco Java User Group - come hang out and say hi!

Anyway, lots of good stuff (as usual), so let's get to it.

• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2.0 Released
• Do not miss this extra special episode of A Bootiful Podcast with Spring team legend Oliver Drotbohm
• Simplifying the Spring Cloud Release Train
• Check out this great demonstrationn of Spring Cloud Task / Spring Batch-job executions and the monitoring of it using Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2 with InfluxDB and Grafana in Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.2
• Hey Milwaukee, come hear Spring Cloud lead Spencer Gibb talk about Spring Cloud Gateway
• Good news everyone! Spring Boot supports Java 13
• Happy Sys-Admin appreciation day!
• I love the possibilities of …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to former Spring Data lead, creator of Spring HATEOAS, vocal hypermedia advocate and musician Oliver Drotbohm (@odrotbohm) on Spring Data, HATEOAS, Hypermedia, and more.

• Oliver on Twitter (@odrotbohm)

Spring Cloud continues to prove immensely popular, and over the last few years a number of IaaS providers have provided integration with their technology and joined the release train. This has typically involved getting into the spring-cloud GitHub org and publishing in the org.springframework.cloud Maven groupid. As the number of projects included looks to increase, it is becoming a little unwieldy, and we wanted to take a step back and review the pros and cons that this model provides and propose a better path forward that benefits all projects involved.

Perhaps the biggest downside to being…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I concluded my time in Portland, OR, for OSCON on Sunday, went to Chicago for the epic Chicago, IL Cloud Conf yesterday; today I am in Denver, CO, for meetings; and then Wednesday I am off to Burlington, MA for the SpringOne Tour 2019 event. We've got some good stuff this week so let's get to it!

• Hi Spring fans! In last week's episode of A Bootiful Podcast, I talk to Azul CTO Gil Tene on Java, JVMs, garbage collection, and a ton more
• There's an interesting new feature on master for Spring Cloud Gateway giving improved details about your routes in the Actuator
• Check out how the Dutch government uses Cloud Foundry to enhance users experience
• It's finally here! Check out the new support for the Cloud Foundry PAS running on Kubernetes. Here's another post with details from our partners over at VMWare on how PAS on Kubernetes improves the developer experience
• A nice post on the Okta blog on how to …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of a Bootiful Podcast! In this week I'm joined by my old friend, Azul CTO, Gil Tene as we discuss Java, JVMs, garbage collection, and a ton more in this extra packed 90 minute-plus episode.

• Gil on Twitter
• Azul Systems
• Zing