Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Manchester, UK, for an appearance at the Manchester JUG and then it's off to London, UK, for some customer visits and the epic Devoxx UK event. This time next week I'll be in Denver, USA, for the SpringOne Tour event. If you're in any of these places, as usual, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi (@starbuxman)

• Missed an installment of This Week in Spring? Well, have no fear there's now a monthly aggregation of the weekly aggregation! Here's the April edition
• Dormain Drewitz swoops in for the kill with this epic announcement: Pivotal and Confluent are teaming up to make Pivotal's Kubernetes environment, PKS, the best place to run Confluent Kafka
• Spring Framework luminary Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Framework .3.17 and 5.0.6
• Spring Data legend Mark Paluch just announced the release of Spring Data Ingalls SR12 and Kay SR7. These releases are, as usual, packed with new releases!
• Spring Batch and Spring Cloud Task lead Michael Minella has just announced Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.RELEASE…

2018-05-09 Update: The releases address a vulnerability. Please see this blog post published after the associated Spring Boot 2.0.2 releases.

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.0.5. The release primarily delivers bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements.

For a complete list of changes, please refer to the 5.0.5 changelog.

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I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.6. The release primarily delivers bug fixes and dependency version updates along with some minor improvements.

For a complete list of changes, please refer to the 4.2.6 changelog.

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On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session BOM Apple-SR2. This release includes an update to the core modules and adds support for Spring Session for Apache Geode. You can use the BOM

With Maven:

<dependencyManagement>
	<dependencies>
		<dependency>
			<groupId>org.springframework.session</groupId>
			<artifactId>spring-session-bom</artifactId>
			<version>Apple-SR2</version>
			<type>pom</type>
			<scope>import</scope>
		</dependency>
	</dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>
<dependencies>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.springframework.session</groupId…

I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Security OAuth 2.3.3, 2.2.2, 2.1.2 and 2.0.15. These maintenance releases primarily deliver bug fixes.

For a complete list of changes, please refer to:

• 2.3.3 changelog

• 2.2.2 changelog

• 2.1.2 changelog

• 2.0.15 changelog

2018-05-09 Update: The releases address a vulnerability. Please see this blog post published after the associated Spring Boot 1.5.13 release.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.RELEASE is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's New?

Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.RELEASE is intended to be the version of the framework aligned with Spring Boot 2. Updates from 1.2.x include:

• Updates to all dependencies.
• Restricting concurrent task execution.
• A failed batch job execution fails a task.

Let's walk through these updates in more detail.

Update to All Dependencies

As stated earlier, this is the generally available release that brings…

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Micrometer metrics collection and publication facade. Micrometer is a new project from Pivotal that underpins the Actuator metrics endpoint in Spring Boot 2.0.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In the last week I went from Germany (for JAXON) to Linz, Austria (for DevOne) and Vienna, Austria (for a meetup) and now I'm in Melbourne, Australia (after a 10 hour stopover in Bangkok, Thailand), for the VOXXED Melbourne event. As usual, if you're around I'd love to hear from you!

Without further ado, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Pivotal just turned 5! Happy birthday to us!
• Spring Cloud contributor Ryan Baxter has just announced Spring Cloud Finchley RC1. The new release is packed with all sorts of new stuff and represents one of hopefully the final releases before Spring Cloud Finchley before it's GA
• Hi Spring fans! In last week's installment of Spring Tips I looked at how to extricate process state - valuable for coordinating long running or mutli-actor processes - from business logic with Spring Statemachine
• the RabbitMQ 3.7.5-beta2 is now available.
• I really like this Chinese-language post on whether Spring Boot and Spring Cloud …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 1 (RC1) of the Spring Cloud Finchley Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Finchley release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

Finchley.RC1 is based on Spring Boot 2.0.1.

Spring Cloud Task

• Release Announcement

Spring Cloud Config

• Set refresh rate for Git repos
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Bus

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Cloudfoundry

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Contract

• Support for Pact v3
• Integration with Pact Broker
• Option to upload and fetch stubs from a Git repository
• Bug Fixes
…