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 - …

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.1 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

STS 3.8.1 focuses on fixing existing issues. The list of fixed issues include:

• Spring Boot Dashboard works behind a proxy again
• Assert templates now use JUnit or AssertJ, depending on what is on the classpath of the project
• Fixed an issue with the Groovy-Eclipse m2e connector with missing source folders
• Added an action to jump to the ngrok admin web UI directly from the boot dashboard
• Fixed an issue with the port of a boot app not showing up in the dashboard
• and more...

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.8.1 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

by Josh Long and Pieter Humphrey

Spring's central to a key message: software is business differentiating functionality, and everything that defers an organization's from delivering better software, faster and safer, should be automated or eliminated. SpringOne Platform captures that narrative with talks on all things continuous delivery.

The SpringOne Platform 2016 event shows how everything about this show has been bigger and better than ever! We've doubled the conference attendance from 2015, with record (2000+) attendees, 200+ talks, 30+ sponsors, amazing speakers from Netflix, Paypal…

Welcome to another very special installment of This Week in Spring - this week Pivotal is out in force at SpringOne Platform 2016. This year saw more people, more topics and more sponsors than ever! For more, check out our SpringOne Platform recap blog!

If you're not here, then fear not all the talks will be available online, but until then.. wish you were here! As with previous years, the race to SpringOne was filled with awesome releases that should keep you more than busy while you wait for the talks to be available online as replays! Let's get to it!

• Spring Boot co-lead Phillip Webb announced Spring Boot 1.4, just in time for SpringOne Platform!
• ..and Spring Boot ninja Stephane Nicoll announced Spring Boot 1.3.7
• Spring Data ninja Mark Paluch announced Spring Data Ingalls M1, packed with lots of new features (and 250 tickets fixed!) include for property access in conversion subsystem (Commons, MongoDB), an update to Cassandra 3.0 for Spring Data Cassandra,
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