Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! Life's been busy but fun this last week. I've been knee-deep in video production! I've got a lot of fun Spring Tips installments lined up or in production at the moment, and I can't wait for you to see 'em!

I also spent much of last week with my buddy Matt Raible and we made JHipster work with Spring Native, and I'm still giddy as can be about the newly opened possibilities. (More on that below)

How are you doin', otherwise? I hope you're doing well!

Now then, we've got a lot to cover and oh-so little time in which to do…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 2 (M2) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0 Release Train (codename Jubilee) is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2021.0.0-M2 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.0-M2 Release Train

Milestone 2 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.6.0-M3.

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Commons

Adjusts NamedContextFactory API for Sleuth.

Spring Cloud Config

Allow types in JDBC Environment repository besides String …

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Spring Data engineer Christoph Strobl (@stroblchristoph) about GraphQL, MongoDB, and Spring Native, among other things.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long looks at how to build bootiful Edge Services with Spring Cloud Gateway, Spring GraphQL, and Reactive Programming

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm with my buddy Matt Raible preparing for what I'm hoping will be an awesome San Francisco JUG joint appearance on Wednesday this week!

I've got to get back to that! But I did want to get through this roundup because it's enormous! So, without further ado:

• Spring Initializr 0.11.0 available now
• In last week's A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Spring web legend Rossen Stoyanchev on RSocket, GraphQL and more
• Reassessing TestNG vs. Junit
• Spring Boot 2.4.11 available now
• Spring Boot 2.5.5 available now
• Spring Boot 2.6.0-M3 available now
• Spring Data JDBC - How do I make Bidirectional Relationships?
• Spring Native in Action with the Okta Spring Boot Starter
• TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf (Part 1) - Wim Deblauwe
• TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf (Part 2) - Wim Deblauwe
• TodoMVC with Spring Boot and Thymeleaf (Part 3) - Wim Deblauwe
• Neat article on InfoQ.com: …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Initializr 0.11.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 15 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | Gitter

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Rossen Stoyanchev (@rstoya05) about Spring, RSocket, GraphQL, and so much more.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

Highlights of this release include:

• The PathPattern based path matching strategy is now used by default for Spring MVC applications.
• Elasticsearch properties for the different client implementations have have been consolidation and rationalized.
• Sanitization rules are now pluggable and can be based on the backing PropertySource.
• Spring Integration PollerMetadata properties are now provided.

For more details please take a look at the release notes wiki page and the changelog. Spring Boot 2.6.0-RC…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.5.5 has been released and is now available from Maven Central.

This release includes 41 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | …