We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.M2 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's new in Spring Cloud Task 1.1.0.M2

This release continues to progress on 1.1.0's main theme of improving overall task functionality as well as migrating features that existed within Spring XD to Spring Cloud Task. The main updates for this release are the following:

• Support for Generated Task Id - A common use case for a Spring Cloud Task application is to launch it within a PaaS, like Cloud Foundry or…

TDD introduced many improvements into the development process, but in our opinion the biggest impact relates to code design. Looking at the code from the usage perspective (by first writing an acceptance test) allows us to focus on usability rather than concrete implementation. Unfortunately, we usually rest on our laurels not trying to uplift this practice to the architecture level.

This presentation will show you how you can use the Spring Cloud Contract Verifier functionality in order to have a fully automated solution to stub your HTTP / Messaging collaborators. Just by adding proper…

I apologize to both the Spring and Apache Geode communities for the delay, relative to the Apache Geode M3 release announcement, but I am very excited and pleased to follow that with the release of Spring Data for Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating.M3.

You can get the bits from Maven Central by including the following dependency in either your application Maven or Gradle build files ...

Maven

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
  <artifactId>spring-data-geode</artifactId>
  <version>1.0.0.APACHE-GEODE-INCUBATING-M3</version>
</dependency>

Gradle

compile 'org…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's already almost mid October and I can't believe we're almost in 2017! Time is sure flying quickly!

• It's an honor that today at the JAX London event, the JAX community voted Spring Boot as most innovative contribution to the Java ecosystem. I'm sure I speak for the whole Spring team when I say, Thank You very much!
• Martin Lippert just announced Spring Tool Suite 3.8.2 featuring smarter integration with the Spring Initializr and updates to Eclipse Neon 1 as well as bugfixes.
• I published the first installment of what I hope will be a recurring series of hot-take, live-coded looks at different aspects of the Spring and Pivotal ecosystem.
• Spring Cloud Data Flow ninja Eric Bottard just announced that …

The winners of the JAX Innovation Awards 2016 have been announced this evening at the JAX Innovation Awards special event in London, United Kingdom. The winner of the ‘Most innovative contribution to the Java ecosystem’ category is Spring Boot. Docker has been voted the most innovative solution to software delivery and DevOps while the Special Jury Award went to Let’s Encrypt.

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.8.2 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

STS 3.8.2 focuses on adopting Eclipse Neon.1 and fixing existing issues. The list of changes include:

• Updated to Eclipse Neon.1
• Includes Eclipse Automatic Error Reporting
• Custom Spring Initializr now usable directly from within STS
• New Spring Starter Wizard now features default selections
• Fixed a problem that caused parallel push of multiple apps in boot dashboard to fail
• Fixed a deadlock when selecting BuildShip in New Spring Starter wizard
• 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 3.8.2 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

Spring Cloud Data Flow for Cloud Foundry gets two new releases today, detailed below:

1.0.1.GA is a maintenance release that

• Builds upon 2.0.1.RELEASE of Cloud Foundry’s Java Client and 3.0.2.RELEASE of Reactor

• Builds upon 1.0.1.RELEASE of Spring Cloud Data Flow core

• Gets general clarifications and improvements in the reference documentation

• Fixes a bug pertaining to multiple ORG + Space combination causing task launch failures

• Fixes a bug where environment variables were not propagated correctly when launching a task

1.1.0.M1 is the first milestone in the new line of development…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to look at so let's get to it!

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just released Spring Security LDAP 2.2RC1
• Spring Integration lead Gary Russell just announced Spring Integration and Spring AMQP release candidates; get the bits now!
• Spring Data ninja Thomas Risberg just released Spring Cloud Data Flow for Kubernetes 1.1.M1
• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke announced Spring Data Hopper SR4 and Spring Data Gosling SR6
• Spring Statemachine lead Janne Valkealahti just announced Spring Statemachine 1.2.0M1
• I liked this GR8Conf talk by Jenn Strater on a test-driven approach to documenting REST APIs with Spring REST Docs
• This German language news roundup ever so briefly …

Speaker: Josh Long https://www.twitter.com/starbuxman