Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we're already staring down the end of October 2017? This year has flown by! What a rush! This week I'm home in sunny San Francisco talking to customers and giving talks.

I'll be speaking "at" the vJUG 24 online conference. The conference lasts 24 hours! There's a talk every hour, from as many timezones as possible! I hope you'll join me (and thousands of others) as we look at Reactive Spring at 04:00 GMT on Wednesday.

And, of course, I hope you'll register and join my friend and Grails co-founder Jeff Scott Brown and me for a look at Grails for Spring Developers…

Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.0.1 is available now, as the first maintenance release in our Spring Framework 5.0 line.

In addition to addressing various user-reported bugs, we've applied minor refactorings to clean up unintended leftovers from the 5.0 GA release, e.g. for the reactive codec configurers.

This release upgrades Reactor to Bismuth SR3, based on Reactor Core 3.1.1, picking up essential fixes in Reactor Netty. Furthermore, AspectJ 1.8.12 brings some welcome performance improvements to Spring AOP's pointcut expression evaluation at…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.0.0.M5 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. This release represents the fifth milestone for the Spring Batch 4.0 release. Many thanks to all that contributed to this release.

What's new?

This milestone continues the work laid out in the previous 4.0.0 milestones. Specific updates include:

• Dependency updates
• FunctionItemProcessor
• Continued updates to documentation

Dependency updates

As the dependency graph of Spring Boot 2 evolves, we have been updating our dependencies to be in line with them. This round includes…

Dear Spring Community!

Today I’d like to announce the first Release Candidate of the version 1.1 of Spring Integration for Amazon Web Services. Its artifact

org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-aws:1.1.0.RC1

is available in the Milestone Repository.

Thanks to everybody contributed!

Some highlights of the features since the previously announced Milestone 1:

KinesisMessageDrivenChannelAdapter

The KinesisMessageDrivenChannelAdapter has been improved to handle properly expired and throttled shard iterators. Also it now skips closed shards. Some other bug fixed have been provided…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at how to integrate a Spring Boot application with JAX-RS (using the Jersey reference implementation). JAX-RS is a JCP standard for building REST applications.

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 | …

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.

  …

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…

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…