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…

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Spring support for the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API. Spring's support for JDBC is one of many reasons a lot of people first started using Spring 15+ years ago! If you aren't committed to a full-blown ORM and/or want to leverage the full power of JDBC, then this video is for you!

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Release Candidate 2 (RC2) 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.RC2 is based on Spring Boot 2.0.2.

Spring Cloud Task

• Release Announcement

Spring Cloud Config

• Supports skipping SSL validation for Git and Vault repositories
• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Bus

• Bug Fixes

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Spring Cloud Netflix Turbine Stream now uses WebFlux
• Bug Fixes
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Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I finished last week in Barcelona, Spain, for the epic Spring IO 2018 event (were you there? why not? YOU SHOULD BE IT'S AMAZING!) and now I'm in San Francisco enjoying a restive 48 hours and soon I'll be off to sunny Saint Louis for the epic Spring One Tour St. Louis event starting the 30th then it's off to splendid Singapore for the Voxxed Singapore event. If you're in either region, reach out! I'd love to heard and/or see you!

Anyway, as usual, we've got a ton to cover so let's get to it!

• Hi Spring fans! In last week's installment of Spring Tips we look at the Apache Camel enterprise integration framework and its integration with Spring Boot
• Don't miss Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky's June 7 webinar on the latest and greatest in Spring Cloud Stream
• Do you really need any more reason to go to SpringOne Platform? Do not miss this compelling invitation from Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini!
• Check out the latest and greatest support in the Cloud Foundry CLI
• Check out the latest in Cloud Foundry's container networking support
• Spring Data ninja and Redis-driver Lettuce maintainer Mark Paluch has a nice …

speaker: Josh Long (@starbuxman)

Hi Spring fans! In this installment we look at the Apache Camel enterprise integration framework, its numerous components, its Java DSL, support for observability, its integration with Spring Boot and the larger Spring ecosystem.

Hi Spring fans! Whew! What a wild week it's been! I landed in Kiev, Ukraine, last Thursday to present at the epic JEEConf in beautiful Kiev. Then, this weekend it was off to Dublin, Ireland and Belfast, North Ireland, where I had the privilege of speaking to some of the amazing Pivotal customers (like Liberty). I concluded today here in Belfast and tomorrow it's off to bella Barcelona, Spain for the Spring I/O conference.

As usual, it's been a crazy awesome week in the Spring community so without further ado let's get to it!

• We now have OIDC Provider Configuration support in Spring Security Master. Awesome!
• Be sure not to miss this webinar on what's new in Spring Cloud Stream, June 7th, from Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky
• Over on the Pivotal blog asks: "Should that be a microservice?" and gives six factors to keep in mind when making the call and cut.
• Do you really need any more reason to go to SpringOne Platform? Do not miss this compelling invitation from Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini!
• Visualize and Monitor your Pivotal Cloud Foundry Deployments with Weave Cloud for PCF
• Spring Data JDBC now has support for @Table and @Column…

Hey there,

It feels like SpringOne Platform was only yesterday, and I'm so excited by what's coming in September! It’s yet another excuse to chat, exchange, share, have a drink, and enjoy quality time with the Spring and Reactor communities, contributors and users alike.

I'll tell you a secret: as the project Reactor lead, this is one of my favorite places to capture amazing feedback and translate it into pull requests. I like spending hours replaying the software history with folks, talking about efficient distributed systems (or "microservices") because--Bingo! Reactive is all about these…