Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips Josh revisits RSocket, the reactive application protocol from, among others, Facebook, this time looking at the brand new Spring Framework 5.2 and Spring Boot 2.2 integration.

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Here's the first Spring Tips installment introducing the "raw" RSocket protocol and Java client library

Since we announced Spring Framework official support for Kotlin in January 2017, a lot of things happened. Kotlin was announced as an official Android development language at Google I/O 2017, we continued to improve the Kotlin support across Spring portfolio and Kotlin itself has continued to evolve with key new features like coroutines.

I would like to take the opportunity of the first milestone of Spring Framework 5.2 to give a status overview of where we are when it comes to Spring and Kotlin. And I will make my best to focus on concrete improvements since I believe Spring and Kotlin share…

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG), 2.0.9.RELEASE and 2.1.3.RELEASE.

Both of these releases focus on dependency updates to align with the rest of the Spring portfolio in their respective release lines.

SSDG 2.0.9.RELEASE builds on:

• Spring Framework 5.0.13.RELEASE

• Spring Data Kay-SR14

• Spring Session 2.0.10.RELEASE (Apple-SR9)

• And is targeted for use in Spring Boot 2.0.9.RELEASE.

SSDG 2.1.3.RELEASE builds on:

• Spring Framework 5.1.6.RELESE

• Spring Data Lovelace-SR6

• Spring Session 2.1.5.RELEASE (Bean-SR4)

• And is targeted for use in Spring Boot 2.1.4.RELEASE

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I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG), 2.2.0.M1.

This release focuses on dependency updates to align with the rest of the Spring portfolio in their respective release lines, building on:

• Spring Framework 5.2.0.M1

• Spring Data Moore-M3

• Spring Session 2.2.0.M1

• And is targeted for use in Spring Boot 2.2.0.M1

SSDG 2.2.0.M1 bits are available in the Spring libs-milestone repository (here).

What’s Next

Some of the proposed and upcoming features in the SSDG 2.2 release line include:

• Attached Sessions (option).

• Stronger Consistency (option) using Map.replace(key, oldValue, newValue) for lightweight transactions supplanting the need for heavier, cache/local transactions.

• Improvements in PDX Serialization support.

• And much more…​

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Hot on the heels of Spring Framework 5.2 M1 and just in time for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.2 M2 release, on behalf of the Spring Data team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the third milestone of the Moore release train.

Notable changes amongst many others:

• Flow extensions for Kotlin coroutines in Spring Data for Apache Cassandra & MongoDB.
• MongoDB Json Schema generation from domain Types.
• Support for BINARY storage type in Spring Data JDBC.
• Alternative EntityMapper for Elasticsearch.
• Improved Geospatial query support for Neo4j.
• Smarter Redis cluster topology caching.

Please find a high-level overview of what has been added in our release wiki. As always, we’re looking forward to your feedback! -> @SpringData…

Hi Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long talks to Roy Braam a solution's architect at Rabobank, a bank in the Netherlands, about how they are able to quickly iterate despite regulation and size.

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• Josh Long on Twitter

On behalf of the entire team I’d like to announce the availability of three service releases for Spring Data release trains: Lovelace SR6, Kay SR14, and Ingalls SR20.

The releases are recommended upgrades as they contain fixes for a CVE in Spring Data JPA.

Spring Boot 2.1.4, 2.0.9, and 1.5.20 already pull in the above Spring Data versions, including the fixes that were released last week, and are now also available for use.

Here’s the content of the releases:

Spring Data Lovelace SR6

• Spring Data Commons 2.1.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 1.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.1.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.0.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 2.1.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.1.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 2.1.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.1.6 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.0.2 GA of Data Flow. Follow the Getting Started guides for running on Local, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

This is a minor release with mostly bug fixes and documentation enhancements.

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Improved documentation

  • Docs update for enabling Kafka on Helm Chart

  • Improved architecture diagrams

  • Getting started guide improvements

• Bug fixes on Spring Cloud Data Flow, Spring Cloud Data Flow UI, and Spring Cloud Deployer implementations

Stay in touch…​

As always, we welcome feedback and contributions, so please reach out to us on Stackoverflow or GitHub or via Gitter…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Framework 5.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 140 issues and pull requests.

This first milestone is packed with features and fixes, including:

• Many core container improvements, from parsing annotation data with the new MergedAnnotations API to @Configuration class optimizations
• Support for Kotlin coroutines
• New WebMvc.fn programming model in the spring-webmvc module providing a functional alternative to annotated controllers that's built on the Servlet API. Now spring-webmvc like spring-webflux offers both functional and annotation-based programming models.
• Performance improvements in Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux to reduce overhead in request mapping, media type parsing, CORS checks, and more
• RSocket support including response handling via annotated @MessageMapping methods and performing requests via RSocketRequester…