I am pleased to announce that the Spring for Apache Kafka 1.1.0.M1 milestone release is available now.

As usual, thanks to the community for any feedback and contribution as always!

Highlights of this release:

• Support for the 0.10.x.x client (use 1.0.x for the 0.9.x.x client)

• Support for listeners that receive the entire batch of messages returned by the consumer.poll() operation

• Support for null payloads - used to delete keys when using log compaction

• Allow setting the initial offset to be relative to the current offset

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On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 5 of the Spring Cloud Brixton Release Train is available today. The release can be found in our Spring Release repository and Maven Central.

This release includes primarily bug fixes.

This release also deprecates Spring Cloud Cluster in favor of Spring Integration.

The following modules were updated as part of Brixton.SR5:

• Spring Cloud Bus 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Config 1.1.3.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud AWS 1.1.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.0.6.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Task 1.0.2.RELEASE

And, as always, we welcome feedback: either on GitHub, on gitter, on Stack Overflow, or on Twitter…

Greetings Spring community,

I am happy to release the first milestone for Spring Cloud Spinnaker. Spring Cloud Spinnaker bundles up the continuous delivery Spinnaker platform, and provides a 1-click installer to let you install it to any certified Cloud Foundry provider.

At this year’s SpringOne Platform 2016 conference, there were two talks about Spinnaker. If you have early release access and missed them, you can watch right now. Otherwise you can catch them on the SpringDeveloper YouTube Channel once they are published.

If your team/meetup/JUG is interested in hearing more about Spinnaker, check in with me and we can arrange a…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Since we last spoke I've presented at conferences and to customers in London, Beijing, Shanghai and Singapore - where I am now. Tomorrow, Wednesday, I'll be speaking at the Singapore Spring Meetup - join me! It's been quite a few days!

• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch has done another great post looking at Spring Cloud Vault
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 4.1.2
• Spring Integration ninja Artem Bilan just announced Spring for Apache Kafka 1.0.3
• Check out this deck to learn about how Spring Boot is used at PayPal
• I liked my buddy Richard Seroter's review of our SpringOne Platform event a few weeks ago
• I loved Camille Fournier's post on some real-life architecture patterns of microservices and, particularly, her observations on the challenges of …

In my previous post about Managing Secrets with Vault, I introduced you to Vault and how to store arbitrary secrets using the generic secret backend. Vault can manage more than just secret data like API keys, passwords, and other sensitive string-like data. Today we’re taking a look at Vault’s integration with databases, services, and certificates.

Database credentials tend to be static

When it comes to databases, the regular workflow of getting credentials applying for a database is asking some operator or a self-service tool to give you credentials so your application can log into the…

Rob Mee, Pivotal CEO on Spring

Spring and the Circle of Feedback with Phil Webb

Reactive Spring with Rossen Stoyanchev and Stephane Maldini

Spring Framework 5.0, JDK 8/9 with Juergen Hoeller

Spring Boot 1.4 Weather Application Demo

Other Keynotes from SpringOne Platform 2016

Help Developers Do what they Love - Onsi Fakhouri

Containers Will Not Fix Your Broken Culture (and Other Hard Truths) — Bridget Kromhout

A Transformation Journey — Brad Miller, Citi

How Comcast Transformed the Product Delivery Experience — Greg Otto, Comcast

A Tale of Two Ladies: On Generating Opportunity for Women in…

It is my pleasure to announce that the Spring for Apache Kafka 1.0.3 maintenance release is available now.

As usual, thanks to the community for any feedback and contribution as always!

This release contains several important bug fixes, including a memory leak when using manual acknowledgments; therefore an upgrade is highly recommended.

The addressed issues can be found here.

The project now properly handles kafka messages with null payloads, which is a common use case used to "delete" a key when using Kafka Log Compaction. @KafkaListener methods will now receive a null argument for such…

I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.1.2.RELEASE which resolves some minor issues including fixes for the new MvcRequestMatcher.

For details refer to the changelog.

Contributions

Without the community we couldn’t be the successful project we are today. I’d like to thank everyone that created issues & provided feedback.

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 me @rob_winch or Joe @joe_grandja on Twitter.

Of course the best feedback comes in the form of contributions…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm recovering from a crazy awesome week at SpringOne Platform while visiting customers here in summer-time London.

We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• the IntelliJ IDEA folks have updated their coverage on Spring
• there were several wrapup blogs from last week's SpringOne Platform event, including the two we published on this very blog for day 1

and day 2 and the posts on Pivotal's main blog for day 1, day 2, day 3, and final call

• while we're at the Pivotal blog, those of you wondering about Blockchain on Cloud Foundry might appreciate this post
• SpringOne Platform was filled with excellent keynotes, all of which will be available online already (or soon). Naturally, you have to watch Adrian Cockroft (@adrianco) 's excellent Simplifying the Future keynote: "Let's just do Spring Boot on Cloud Foundry."
• want to know about the future of the leading application server on the JVM, Apache Tomcat, for whose development Pivotal is a large sponsor? Check out this InfoQ interview with Pivotal's own Mark Thomas
• Last week we had the likes of James Governor from Redmonk and Charles Humble from InfoQ taking in the show and talking about it. I liked Charles Humble's coverage of the first day keynote - …