Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week's already off to a crazy start. Sunday evening I returned from Kiev, Ukraine, where I spoke at JEEConf. Yesterday, Monday, I gave a talk with my friend Baruch from JFrog at yesterday's JFrog Swampup conference event in Napa, California. Today I'm off to Denver, Colorado for Gluecon, and then off to GOTO Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and I'll finish out the week in Washington DC for customer visits. I can't wait to see you all along the way!

• I hope you'll register for this upcoming webinar on distributed tracing with the Spring Cloud team's very own Adrian Cole and Marcin Grzejszczak
• Wow! Spring Roo 2.0M2 is packed with lots of cool looking features supporting Spring Boot and removing the older ActiveRecord-style support in favor of proper Spring Data repositories
• I really liked Stormpath founder and CTO Les Hazlewood's post on how they moved their entire backend API to Spring Boot in a matter of three weeks while embracing Spring Boot's autoconfiguration to solve a few problems of their own, like a Samza auto-configuration.
• the Udemy Spring Cloud workshop online looks pretty cool…

I'm delighted to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.0.2.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. My thanks to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests.

This maintenance release includes a number of bug fixes and an immediate upgrade is recommended for all Spring REST Docs users.

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Speakers: Adrian Cole & Marcin Grzejszczak, Pivotal

Latency analysis is the act of blaming components for causing user perceptible delay. In today's world of microservices, this can be tricky as requests can fan out across polyglot components and even data-centers. In many cases, the root source of latency isn't a component, but rather a link between components. This session will overview how to debug latency problems, using call graphs created by Zipkin. We'll use trace zipkin itself, setting up from scratch using docker.

While we're at it, we'll discuss how the model works, and how to safely…

On behalf on the Spring Roo team at DISID Corporation, I'm pleased to announce that Spring Roo 2.0.0.M2 has been released!

The main goal of this Spring Roo version was to update code generation to use latest Spring technologies:

• Use Spring IO Platform to manage dependency versions and be able to use latest Spring technologies.
• Update code generation to use the latest Spring framework versions (4.x)
• Update code generation to include Spring Boot on generated projects.
• Remove all generated configuration based on XML files and use Spring Boot auto-configuration.
• Remove Active Record data model in favor of the Repository (Spring Data) based one.
• Generate application architecture based on service layer pattern by default
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Speakers: Mark Fisher & Mark Pollack, Pivotal The future of scalable data processing is microservices! Building on the ease of development and deployment provided by Spring Boot and the cloud native capabilities of Spring Cloud, the Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Task projects provide a simple and powerful framework for microservice stream and batch processing. At a higher level of abstraction, Spring Cloud Data Flow is an integrated orchestration layer that provides a highly productive experience for deploying and managing sophisticated data pipelines consisting of standalone…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.1.0.RELEASE. The highlights of this release include:

• #380 - Support for Spring Data Hopper
• #384 - Early support for Spring IO Platform 2.1
• #351 - Support for commons-pool2
• #370 - Support property placeholders in XML Namespace
• #392 - Document Testing Support
• Migrated from JIRA to GitHub Issues
• Added Gitter Chat

For complete details of 2.1 refer to the changelog for 2.1.0.RC1 and 2.1.0.RELEASE

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 (our latest full time Spring Security team member) @joe_grandja…

Spring Boot v1.4.0.M3 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release closes over 150 issues and introduces a number of new features.

Highlights include:

• Lots of bug fixes and improvements over M2 (thanks to everyone for trying the milestones).
• Convention based error pages (want a custom 404, just add src/main/resources/public/error/404.html).
• Improved ErrorPage registration support.
• Support for pluggable OAuth2 Principal extraction.

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.4 Release Notes on the WIKI and the updated reference documentation…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As I write this, I'm in Chennai, India, en route to Bangalore, India for a day of exciting customer meetings and then I'm off to sunny Barcelona, Spain, for the epic Spring IO event! Then, this Friday, I'm off to Kiev, Ukraine, for JEEConf. If you're around, as always, don't be shy and say hi!. That said, let's get into it!

• The BIG news: Spring Cloud Brixton is now available! Get the bits from the Spring Initializr. If you'll permit a little back-patting, I submit that you might get a good feel for what concerns a technology like Spring Cloud addresses by reading this article I wrote and you'll learn how Spring Boot and Spring Cloud are used in this video. That said, grab the bits and go!
• Spring Cloud Stream 1.0.0 is here, at long last! Spring Cloud stream makes it simple to build collaborating messaging-based microservices.
• Spring Boot co-lead Phil Webb just announced that Spring Boot 1.4.0.M3 is now available, just in time…

Following on from Spring Boot 1.3.5.RELEASE which fixed a regression, Spring IO Platform 2.0.5.RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Spring AMQP 1.5.6.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.3.5.RELEASE

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