Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in Chicago for the epic Spring Days Chicago and then I'm off to Singapore for VOXXED Singapore. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja has just announced the new Spring Security OAuth 2.1.1 and 2.0.4
• Spring Cloud Data Flow engineer Gunnar Hillert just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow 1.2.1
• Spring Cloud co-founder Spencer Gibb just announced Spring Cloud Dalston SR1
• I liked Jonas Hecht's post looking at how to run Spring Boot on Docker Windows
• I loved this post from RedHat engineer Sébastien Blanc on using Keycloak, their OAuth-aware identity provider, with Spring Boot applications. Keycloak is also supported on the Spring Initializr.
• The Docker blog also has a nice post by Sophia Parafina on …

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the releases of Spring Security OAuth 2.1.1 and 2.0.14.

Both are maintenance releases that primarily include bug fixes and minor improvements.

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On behalf of the Spring Cloud Data Flow team, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Data Flow and Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry 1.2.1.RELEASE. This release provides several improvements around OAuth2 authorization.

Here are the relevant links to documentation and getting started guides.

• Local: Quick Start, Getting Started Guide
• Cloud Foundry: Getting Started Guide

Spring Cloud Data Flow now provides role support for OAuth2, converging with the VIEW, CREATE, MANAGE roles that Data Flow supports when using the traditional security option. Considering the varying use-case requirements across organizations in regards to security roles, the out-of-the-box implementation will assign all the VIEW, CREATE, MANAGE roles to the OAuth authenticated user. However, this can be customized by providing your own AuthoritiesExtractor…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 1 (SR1) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. It is mostly a bugfix and documentation update. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

The following modules were updated as part of Dalston.SR1:

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Amsterdam, NL and Essen, DE, talking to customers about cloud-native transformation. We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it.

• Spring Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced a preview of Concourse Pipeline and Cloud Foundry manifest editing support releases as a language server. These language servers can be used by any IDE or text editor that supports them, including in this case Microsoft's Visual Studio Code and later STS itself.
• Spring Cloud Stream ninja Soby Chako just announced Spring Cloud Stream.SR2
• Simon Baslé just announced the Reactor Bismuth release train M1
• Stéphane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 2.0M1! It's finally here! Get the bits of the first major release towards a reactive Spring Boot 2.0. There's so much good stuff…

Back in February 2017 we started to introduce new IDE-agnostic tooling support with our first beta version of the Cloud Foundry manifest editing support. As promised, we continue this journey with an improved version of the Cloud Foundry manifest editing support for Visual Studio Code and brand-new support for editing Concourse task and pipeline definitions - also as an extension to Visual Studio Code. This marks our second step towards implementing tooling in an IDE-agnostic way, adopting the language server protocol from Visual Studio Code.

We also continue our work on the Eclipse-based…

On behalf of the community, I am happy to announce the release of Spring Cloud Stream Chelsea.SR2. This is the second general availability release in the Chelsea release train, which fixes a number of issues over Chelsea.SR1.

The new release is available in Maven Central, and a detailed description of its features can be found in the reference documentation. For information about artifacts and most recent changes, please consult the release notes.

What is next:

After the release, we will start working on the next Spring Cloud Stream release train, named Ditmars, as well as expand the Spring Cloud Stream ecosystem. In parallel with developing the Ditmars release train, we will start work on the Elmhurst…

On behalf of the Reactor team, it is my pleasure to announce that Reactor hit an important milestone last week, making the Bismuth-M1 release train available.

This first milestone backs the newly released Spring Framework 5 RC1. It notably includes version 3.1.0.M1 of reactor-core, reactor-test and reactor-extra.

As the 3.1.x generation is slated to be the long term support branch (as is appropriate for a version that backs the Spring framework), focus has been on stabilizing and polishing the API. As such, expect some breaking changes from the 3.0.x versions [1].

Migrating from 3.0.x

If you’ve kept your Reactor dependencies up to date during the 3.0.x phase (meaning you’re on reactor-core 3.0.7…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Boot 2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 300 issues and pull requests!

This first milestone builds on and requires Spring Framework 5.0.RC1. There are a number of nice refinements in Spring Framework 5 including extensive support for building reactive applications.

Highlights of this first milestone include:

• A complete rewrite of the Gradle plugin (including a dedicated guide)
• Support of reactive web applications development using WebFlux or WebFlux.fn: dedicated spring-boot-starter-webflux starter using Netty by default, support for @WebFluxTest for testing your reactive controller and reactive data support for MongoDB, Redis and Cassandra
• Major dependencies upgrade across the portfolio: Spring Data Kay M3, Spring Security 5.0 M1, Spring Integration 5.0 M4, Spring AMQP 2.0 M4, Spring Session 2.0 M1 and Spring Batch 4.0 M2
• Relaxed binding has been improved
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