Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment (the first of 2018!) of Spring Tips we look at stream processing in Spring Boot applications with Apache Kafka, Apache Kafka Streams and the Spring Cloud Stream Kafka Streams binder.

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.2.4.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a handful of bug fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 1.x users.

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It's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.1.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes 12 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users.

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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'm pleased to announce the Ingalls SR11 and Kay SR6 service releases. The Ingalls service release ships on top of the just-released Spring Framework 4.3.15 and in preparation of the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.11 release. The Kay service release picks up Spring Framework 5.0.5 and will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.0.1 for your convenience.

Both releases ship with 158 tickets fixed in total and are recommended upgrades to all users of the Ingalls and Kay release trains. You can find all details within the linked changelogs.

Ingalls SR 11

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.11 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.11 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.11 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.11 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.11 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data GemFire 1.9.11 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.11 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.11 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

I’m pleased to announce that Spring Framework 5.0.5 and 4.3.15 are available now, as another pair of refinement releases which are recommended as immediate upgrades for all users. Our 5.0.5 release is the foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 2.0.1 release later this week, and 4.3.15 will be picked up by Boot 1.5.11 around the same time.

Both framework releases come with plenty of bug fixes but also with a wide selection of refinements, wrapping up before we branch towards Spring Framework 5.1 and turn the 5.0.x and 4.3.x lines into low-volume maintenance mode. Our 5.…

Hi Spring fans! What a week! This week I'm in beautiful Dallas, TX, for the Spring One Tour Dallas event which is, like so many of the other cities already, utterly and completely sold out! What a crowd!

Wow #SpringOneTour Dallas, you’re so #bootiful ! pic.twitter.com/SySCBw4UNX

— Josh Long (龙之春, जोश) (@starbuxman) April 3, 2018

And, so, without further ado, let's get to it!

• Spring Framework Juergen Hoeller has just announced Spring Framework 5.0.5 and 4.3.15 are now available.
• Check out the PR supporting Pact v3 in Spring Cloud Contract.next. Now would be a good time to try it out and feedback!
• PCF 2.1 and the Quest for a One Pizza Ops Team
• Check out this shiny new Kotlin DSL for Spring Data Cassandra!
• Spring Boot lead Phil Webb has published a nice look at property binding in Spring Boot 2.0
• Spring Batch 1.0.0. was released ten years and a week ago, on March 28th, 2018. Happy tenth anniversary, Spring Batch!
• Roy Clarkson has just announced that the Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.0.0.M2…

Since the first release of Spring Boot, it has been possible to bind properties to classes by using the @ConfigurationProperties annotation. It has also been possible to specify property names in different forms. For example, person.first-name, person.firstName and PERSON_FIRSTNAME can all be used interchangeably. We call this feature “relaxed binding”.

Unfortunately, in Spring Boot 1.x, “relaxed binding” turned out to be a little bit too relaxed. It was quite hard to define exactly what the binding rules were and when specific formats could be used. We also started to get reports of issues that were very hard to fix with our 1.x implementation. For example, in Spring Boot 1.x it is not possible to bind items to a java.util.Set…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm hanging out in sunny San Francisco talking to local customers and working on more installments of the next season of Spring Tips.

As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Check this Pivotal showcase on object detection with Spring Cloud Stream.
• Spring Security SAML DSL lead Filip Hanik has just announced the 1.0.5.RELEASE of our SAML DSL project. This release works against Spring Security SAML 1.0.4.RELEASE. This release adds a simple Java configuration option to your existing Spring Boot applications.
• Ryan Baxter has just announced Spring Cloud Finchley.M9. This new release includes some nice features in Spring Cloud Gateway including support for rolling deployments and route refresh from service discovery heartbeats.
• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert has …

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 3 (SR3) of the Spring Cloud Edgware Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Edgware release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Edgware Release Train

Spring Cloud Contract

• Updated Wiremock to 2.15.0
• By setting a system property stubrunner.snapshot-check-skip or environment variable STUBRUNNER_SNAPSHOT_CHECK_SKIP equal to true you can disable the SNAPSHOT assertion of downloaded stubs jar, e.g. in a CI server.
• Bug fixes

Spring Cloud Consul

• Bug fixes
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