It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.5 and 1.5.2 have been released and are available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.4.5 includes 50 fixes and a selection of improvements and dependency upgrades. The second (first, really!) maintenance release of the 1.5 line contains over 60 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed!

What's next?

The team is now working full speed on Spring Boot 2: a first milestone, including the first release candidate of Spring Framework 5, is expected early April. There are quite a lot of reactive-related features already in 2.0 snapshots. If you’d like to try them out, and we’d love to hear your feedback if you do, please go to start.spring.io…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.2 which fix has a number of bug fixes. Users are encouraged to update immediately.

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On behalf of the entire team, I'd like to announce the availability of Ingalls SR1 and Hopper SR8 service releases. Both of them ship 77 issues fixed in total. As usual, service releases are bugfix ones and recommended upgrades for all users. The releases are going to be picked up by the upcoming Boot 1.5 and 1.4 services releases for your convenience.

The complete list of issues fixed for Ingalls SR1 can be found here, the one for Hopper SR 8 here.

Spring Data Ingalls SR1

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! in this installment, we'll look at different ways to register beans with Spring, culminating in the new programmatic bean registration functionality in Spring 5.

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.3.7 has been released.

This maintenance release is the base for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.4.5 and 1.5.2 releases and includes over 20 fixes and selected improvements.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! My friend Kenny Bastani and I will be doing a training for O'Reilly on the first and second of March introducing all things Spring, Spring Boot, Spring Cloud and Cloud Foundry - join us!

The long awaited public beta of Spring Cloud Services is now live on our public Cloud Foundry, PIvotal Web Services!

• Spring web ninja Rossen Stoyanchev just announced the the M5 milestone release of Spring 5, complete with support for a WebClient testing mechanism
• Eric Bottard has just announced Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry 1.1.1 which includes stability improvements, better error handling, network call optimizations and better load performance characteristics
• Reactor project lead Stephane Maldini just announced Reactor Aluminium SR1
• Pivotal's own Chris Sterling explains Cloud Foundry's new container-networking stack and how it applies to Spring Cloud-based applications.
• Last week, continuing the Spring Tips series, I looked at how to use Spring Boot with Apache MyBatis…

Dear Spring community,

Leading into 2017, the fifth Spring Framework 5.0 milestone is available now. Once again, please check the project page for how to obtain it from our milestone repository.

This is the last milestone before we enter the release candidate phase. Our feature-complete RC1 is planned for early April, initiating a series of release candidates up until June. With this timeline, against near-final releases of OpenJDK 9 and several EE 8 specifications, our 5.0 generation covers early JDK 9 support as well as Servlet 4.0 and Bean Validation 2.0 already.

On another front, 5.0 M5 finally introduces a dedicated name for our reactive web framework: It is my pleasure to publicly announce Spring WebFlux, with the spring-web-reactive module renamed to spring-webflux…

An update on the 5th and last milestone of Spring Framework 5.0...

Spring MVC and Spring WebFlux

The name *Spring MVC* is both well known and widely used but it may surprise a few there is no actual project or independent distribution with that name. Rather it is a module within the Spring Framework distribution called `spring-webmvc`. Here is another trivia question. Did you know that the top-level package in the module does not feature "mvc"? Rather it is called `org.springframework.web.servlet`. Practically speaking those are details that we don't have to remember. What matters is that we have a short and memorable name to refer to *Spring's Servlet stack based* web framework.

Spring's reactive stack web framework, new in 5.0, is fully reactive and non-blocking. It is suitable for event-loop style processing with a small number of threads. It is supported on Servlet containers (Tomcat, Jetty, Servlet 3.1+) but also non-Servlet runtimes (Netty, Undertow) since the common foundation for this stack is not the Servlet API but a non-blocking alternative built on Reactive Streams and the Reactor project. In case you're wondering, isn't Servlet 3.1 capable of non-blocking I/O…

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this tip, we'll look at mapping objects to and from SQL using MyBatis and Spring Boot