Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in Dallas and Austin, Texas, first for customer meetings and then to attend and speak at the epic Reactive Summit. If you're around, don't hesitate to say hi on Twitter! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

Also, I'll be doing a webinar with our friends at OCI on November 9th, 2017, on Grails for the Spring Developer, with my friend and Grails co-founder Jeff Scott Brown. I hope you'll join us!

• Last week, SpringSource co-founder and Spring Framework lead Juergen Hoeller won a JAX Special Jury Award for all of his considerable work since the very beginning of the Spring projects. Thanks to him, the special jury noted, "Spring Framework has never needed a complete rewrite in all of the years it has existed. Instead, it has continuously adapted to the changing trends." Thank you, Juergen, for all that you do.
• Last week, I looked at how to use Scala with a reactive Spring Boot and Spring Webflix-based application…

Greetings Spring community,

Spring Web Services now official has two branches: master (3.0+) and 2.x (maintenance of the old 2.x series). The 2.x series will be maintained as long as Spring Framework 4.x is supported, yet any new work will be conducted on the master branch.

2.4.1.RELEASE is a minor patch release while 3.0.1.RC1 is a major upgrade. The links below include related tickets.

2.4.1 Release Notes | 2.4.1 Documentation.

3.0.0.RC1 Release Notes | 3.0.0.RC1 Documentation.

• 3.0.0.RC1:

  • Rebases Spring Web Services to run on Spring Framework 5.0 and Java 8

  • Drops support for the older Apache WSS4J 1.x line covered by the org.springframework.ws.soap.security.wss4j package. Instead, we only support WSS4J 2.x (in the org.springframework.ws.soap.security.wss4j2 package).

  • Upgrades our XMPP library Smack support to 4.2.

  • This version is planned to be picked up by Spring Boot 2.0 as well as Spring IO Platform Cairo.

• 2.4.1.RELEASE:

  • Maintains our existing baseline of dependencies, making movements on latest supported versions of Spring Framework and Spring Security

  • We’ll maintain the 2.x version as long as Spring Framework 4.x is supported.

  • Based on several of the gaps between Spring Framework 4.x and 5.x, there will be no more compatibility checks of our 2.x branch against Spring Framework 5.x If you need Spring Framework 5, you really need to upgrade to our 3.x branch.

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.8 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.8 includes over 40 fixes, improvements and dependency updates. Thanks to all that 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 | …

I am happy to announce the 3.9.1 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Oxygen.1a release (https://www.eclipse.org/oxygen/noteworthy/)
• includes support for JDK9 and JUnit 5 (https://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/news/4.7.1a/)
• updated Spring Cloud CLI integration (switch to on-demand install)
• experimental boot dashboard extension to inspect beans of running boot apps
• refactoring support to convert application.properties to application.yml
• a number of important bug fixes (organize imports shortcut is back, for example)

To download the distributions, please go visit: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.9.1 New & Noteworthy…

Spring Boot 2.0.0 M5 has been released and is now available from our milestone repository. This release closes 168 issues and pull requests and continues our progress towards 2.0 GA. Thanks to everyone that has contributed!

This milestone refines a number of items from M4, and provides a number of notable new features:

• Initial support for Java 9 - We'll continue to refine Java 9 support, but this release should work for basic applications. Check out this wiki page for more details.
• OAuth 2.0 Client support from Spring Security - Spring Security is starting to ship more OAuth 2.0 features. This release of Spring Boot provides auto-configuration for Spring Security's OAauth 2.0 client support.
• JSON-B Support - We now offer support for JSON-B alongside our existing Jackson and Gson integrations. We continue to recommend Jackson as our default choice.
• Session Actuator endpoint…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the eighth service release of the release train Ingalls. The release ships on top of the just released Spring Framework 4.3.12 and in preparation of the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.8 released.

The release ships 42 (yay!) tickets fixed and is a recommended upgrade to all users of the Ingalls release train.

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.8 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at the bootiful possibilities of integrating Spring Boot and Spring WebFlux, the reactive web runtime and framework in Spring Framework 5, with Scala and the Scala ecosystem and integrating the Spring WebFlux reacive runtime with other Reactive Streams implementations like Akka Streams.

The JAX Innovation awards just took place. The Spring team has been a recipient of the award in a few cases over the years (and a nominee in even more cases), but this year was exceptional.

This year, the jury awarded Spring co-founder and lead engineer Juergen Hoeller (or Jürgen Höller, in his native (Austrian) German language) the Special Jury Award.

We don't normally talk about individuals on this blog, but few can be said to have done so much towards making Spring - and all that has come as a result of it - so successful as Juergen Hoeller has, and does.

The JAX Innovation Awards…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! By happy coincidence, today is also Ada Lovelace day. According to the Finding Ada site: Ada Lovelace Day (ALD) is an international celebration day of the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). It aims to increase the profile of women in STEM and, in doing so, create new role models who will encourage more girls into STEM careers and support women already working in STEM. Happy Ada Lovelace day!

I've just returned from the epic ByteMyCode conference in Wroclaw, Poland, and am now in Seattle, Washington to talk to customers and to [hold an open event today at Pivotal Seattle on Cloud Native Java. Later today I'm off to Toronto, Canada to visit customers and appear at the SpringOne Platform Preview show…