Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've been in Munich and Frankfurt, Germany, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, and it looks like i'll be in New York City and San Francisco for the balance of the week.

We've got a lot to cover so without further ado so let's get started.

• Spring Cloud Contract lead Marcin Grzejszczak has just put together a very nice post on using Spring Cloud Contract in a polyglot world
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky just announced Spring Cloud Streamm Elmhurst M4 / 2.0.0.M4.
• Spring Integration legend Artem Bilan just announced the Spring Integration for AWS 2.0.0.M1 and Spring Cloud Stream Kinesis Binder 1.0.0.M1. This release highlights some of the things that we do to make the experience as valuable as possible for you, including - in this case - adapting the AWS…

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On behalf of the community I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.3.2.RELEASE. This maintenance release contains numerous bug fixes and improvements.

Some of the highlights include:

• #951 - SessionRepositoryFilter#changeSessionId does not copy the previous maxInactiveInterval into the new session

• #983 - Optimize HazelcastSessionRepository write operations

• #984 - Improve session event handling

You can find the complete details of the release in the changelog.

Feedback Please

If you have feedback on this release, I encourage you to reach out via StackOverflow, GitHub Issues, or via the comments section. You can also ping Rob @rob_winch, Joe @joe_grandja, or me @vedran_pavic…

The first and only release candidate planned for Spring Web Flow 2.5 is now available from the Spring Milestones repository. The samples repository has been updated to use it.

This release provides an upgrade path to Spring Framework 5 along with Java 8, Servlet 3.1, Hibernate 5, Tiles 3, and JSF 2.2 as minimum requirements.

In this release "spring-js" has been merged with "spring-webflow" so there is no longer a separate "spring-js" module. As a result some configuration classes have changed packages. The "spring-js-resources" module is still available but as an optional module that must be…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 2 (SR2) 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 Commons

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Spring Cloud Contract

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Spring Cloud Config

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Spring Cloud Consul

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Spring Cloud Netflix

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Spring Cloud Bus

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Spring Cloud Sleuth

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The following modules were updated as part of Edgware.SR2:

Dear Spring Community!

It’s my pleasure to announce today a new project in the Spring Cloud family. It’s called Spring Cloud GCP and its goal is to bring into your applications well-known Spring patterns and Spring Boot conventions for consuming Google Cloud Platform services.

The project currently is in version 1.0.0.M2 and is available from the Spring Milestone Repository:

<dependencyManagement>
   <dependencies>
       <dependency>
           <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
           <artifactId>spring-cloud-gcp-dependencies</artifactId>
           <version>1.0.0.M2</version…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I’m happy to announce the first milestone of the Lovelace release train. The release ships over 200 tickets fixed! The most important new features are:

• JPA 2.2 result streaming.
• MongoDB Validator and JsonSchema support.
• Support for MongoDB Change Streams.
• Neo4J OGM 3.1 upgrade.
• Exist/Count projections as well as a fluent template API in Spring Data for Apache Cassandra.
• Spring Data for Apache Geode added JCache Annotation support.
• Query By Example for Redis repository abstractions.
• Spring Data REST offers more fine grained method exposure mechanisms.

In addition to that, we're happy to now have Spring Data JDBC join the release…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Stockholm, Sweden, for the epic (and snowy) JFokus event, then it's off to Frankfurt, Germany for the OOP show. If you're at either event, don't hesitate to reach out and say hi on Twitter (@starbuxman)!

• Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0.GA is here! A cross-cloud (Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes) option for continuous delivery/updating/rollback/query of Spring Boot-based applications. Spring Cloud Skipper underpins the recently added support in Spring Cloud Data Flow for versioning and rolling back stream definitions, but it's also useful in its own right.
• Spring Cloud Stream lead Oleg Zhurakousky just announced Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst.M4 /2.0.0.M4 Release . The new release includes performance improvements around content-type resolution, Introduction of Polling Source as an alternative to the event-driven message consumption, StreamListener…

On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Cloud Skipper 1.0 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.

Release Highlights:

• Introduction of Flyway to manage schema along with various schema tweaks.

• Option to delete a release along with its package.

• Refined the REST API.

• Updated properties to YAML converter.

• Add resource metadata in manifest template.

• Separate platform deployers into multiple maven modules.

• Support passing to the shell commands to execute.

• Updated documentation.

• Various bug fixes.

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We are pleased to announce the 2.0.0.M4 release of the Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst release train.

Spring Cloud Stream Elmhurst 2.0.0.M4 is available for use in the Spring Milestone repository. The release notes include relevant information about version compatibility with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, Spring AMQP, and Spring for Apache Kafka.

The following sections list the summary of features and improvements included in this release:

• Continuing performance improvements around Content-type resolution
• Introduction of Polling Source as an alternative to the event-driven message consumption
• StreamListener Infrastructure enhancements to primarily deal with multiple destination (details to follow)
• Continuing Documentation improvements
• Various other enhancements and bug fixes
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