On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Spring Security 5.0.6 (changelog) and 4.2.7 (changelog) have been released. The releases primarily delivers bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements. The releases will be found in the upcoming Spring Boot maintenance releases coming later this week.

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Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in NYC for the SpringOne Tour NYC event, then it's off to Amsterdam for some customer visits. It's been a wild week in Spring so let's get to it!

• Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Java Persistence API
• Don't miss this webinar on MongoDB by Spring Data's Christoph Strobl and Mat Keep
• Spring Fu is here and it's awesome! Just check out this example application of the new Kotlin-first microframework for Spring developers. Spring Fu is explicit, not implicit. It's functional, it's fast, it's Spring Fu.
• Don't miss the upcoming Pivotal Paris event with many of the Spring team's local engineers
• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.5.1
• Dr. Mark Pollack, not one to rest on his laurels, …

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the brand new microframework from the Spring team, Spring Fu, which makes short work of building fast, reactive Kotlin-based microservices.

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the availability of Spring Cloud Stream Ditmars.SR4 release train. This is a maintenance release and includes several bug fixes and minor enhancements in core Spring Cloud Stream (1.3.3.RELEASE), Kafka binder (1.3.3.RELEASE), and the Rabbit binder (1.3.4.RELEASE). Please take a look at the release notes for more details. The release can be found in maven central. Detailed descriptions can be found in the reference documentation.

We thank all our community members who contributed valuable additions to this release.

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either in GitHub, on Stack Overflow, on Gitter or on Twitter…

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the Java Persistence API (JPA) and its most ubiquitous implementation Hibernate. We look at basic Spring support for JPA, Spring Boot's auto-configuration and supported configuration properties, mapped superclasses, auditing (using Spring Data's JPA auditing facility) and journaling (using the Hibernate Envers project and Spring Data Envers).

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a wild and wonderful week. I've just returned from the epic VOXXED Singapore event, just intime to enjoy a wonderful week home in Spring-time and sun-filled San Francisco. We've got a ton of things to cover, so let's get to it!

• Pivotal Cloud Foundry now supports Minio, a highly available S3-like HA enterprise grade object storage server for developers.
• Spring Cloud Finchley GA is scheduled for June 15
• In Part 4 of "Should that be a Microservice?" Nate Schutta talks Independent Scalability and why it's important
• Spring Batch ninja Mahmoud Ben Hassine just announced Spring Batch 4.1.0.M1 which includes, among other thing, simplified testing and easier remote chunking. Get the bits now!
• In last week's Spring Tips we looked at JDBC, which is much more than just the venerable JdbcTemplate! In this post we look at the JdbcTemplate, various SQL command objects, SimpleFlatMapper, and so much more. …

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0.5 GA

Skipper is a lightweight tool that allows you to discover Spring Boot applications and manage their lifecycle on multiple Cloud Platforms. You can use Skipper standalone or integrate it with Continuous Integration pipelines to help implement the practice of Continuous Deployment.

The getting started section in the reference guide is the best place to start kicking the tires.

This is primarily a bug fix release. Significant changes since the 1.0 GA release are:

• Improved state management by simplifying objects that are serialized by the state machine.

• Improved handling of timeout during upgrade and rollback.

• Package upgrades can now be cancelled.

• Improved escaping of special characters in generated YAML.

• Upgraded deployer libraries to latest versions.

• Update to Spring Shell 2.0.1.

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The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the 1.5.1 GA release. Follow the Getting Started guides for Local Server, Cloud Foundry, and Kubernetes.

This is a bug fix release. The server improves the handling of special characters in stream definitions and passing of comma delimited strings in the Task launch argument list. It should be used with Skipper 1.0.5.RELEASE. The UI has been improved to support stream update functionality.

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

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.0.M1 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release!

What's new?

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Simplify testing
• Simplify remote chunking
• Add a new JSON item reader

Simplify Testing

Spring Batch provides some nice utility classes (such as the JobLauncherTestUtils and JobRepositoryTestUtils) and test execution listeners (StepScopeTestExecutionListener and JobScopeTestExecutionListener) to test batch components. However, in order to use these utilities, you…