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

Notable Changes in the Finchley Release Train

Spring Boot Starter

The Finchley.M2 release builds on top of the Spring Boot 2.0.0.M3, Spring Framework 5.0.0.RC3, and Project Reactor Bismuth-M3 releases.

Spring Cloud Gateway

The major new feature in the Gateway is WebSocket support (route uri’s with a ws:// scheme) along with a Request Rate Limiter based on Redis, more documentation and a site.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Milestone 1 (M1) of the Spring Cloud Edgware Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the Edgware release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the Edgware Release Train

Spring Cloud Gateway

• Spring Cloud Gateway is a new project that aims to provide the ability to build an API gateway on top of Spring MVC.

Spring Cloud Sleuth

• Spring Cloud Sleuth 1.3.0.M1 removed support for Project Reactor even though it was present in snapshot releases

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I was in Beijing, China for the fabulous Spring Summit event which saw technologists from all around China descend on the capitol for a discussion of all things cloud native and Spring. Then I’m off to Shenzhen, China and Hong Kong for customer visits and the epic YOW! Hong Kong show!

• Pivotal have released a commercial version of the Concourse CI pipeline tool for Cloud Foundry. Check it, and Spring Cloud Pipelines, out!
• I liked Bruno Leite’s post on error handling in a Spring Boot-based REST API.
• You might like Baeldung’s post on using GraphQL with Spring Boot
• This project seems interesting, though I haven’t used it yet. It lets you use ModelMapper with Spring Boot applications.
• This is a great find by community legend Tommy Ludwig who noticed that Bitbucket is now running on Spring Boot!
• This post is an oldie but a goodie since my JavaScript-fu is not the strongest. It looks at how to use Angular (2 or better) with websockets powered by a Spring Boot application.
• IntelliJ advocate and superstar Trisha Gee looks at the new features in IntelliJ IDEA 2017.2 designed to support Spring Boot applications.
• Distributed tracing guru Adrian Cole looks at how to properly blame things for latency in this epic microXchg talk.
• This article is a recap of a talk by David Dawson. It has little to do with Spring itself, directly, and everything to do with event-driven architectures. It’s a nice discussion and you’ll find supporting tools in technologies like Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Cloud Data Flow and the Axon framework.
• I liked this look at the new support for regular expressions in Java 9.
• The branch of the US gov’t charged with digital transformation - started many years ago - is looking for some cloud natives familiar with Cloud Foundry to help them.

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring. Can you believe we’re already nearing the end of August?? Time sure flies!

Last week and over the weekend I was in Hangzhou, China visiting with Alibaba, talking to a few of the teams using Spring Boot and Spring Cloud at China-scale.

This week I’m in Shanghai, China, where I’ve been talking to customers and spending a few days with the teams at Microsoft China who are working on the Spring Boot and Pivotal Cloud Foundry integrations for Microsoft Azure. They’re doing some amazing work and it’s been an honor to hang out with them. Check out all the cool Spring Boot starters that they’ve built for the various Azure services.

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Service Release 3 (SR3) of the Spring Cloud Dalston Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the Dalston release notes for more information.

This release is primarily a bug fix release and users are encouraged to upgrade.

The following modules were updated as part of Dalston.SR3:

We are pleased to announce that Spring Cloud Task 2.0.0.M1 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

This release is the first release that is compatible with the Spring Boot 2.0 milestones (specifically Spring Boot 2.0.0.M3 for this release). With that upgrade, all dependencies are also upgraded (Spring Cloud Stream, Spring Batch, etc) as well as an upgrade of the baseline Java version to Java 8.

What do you think?

Hi Spring fans and welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It’s been a busy week! I started last week talking to a group of developers in North Carolina, then gave a VJUG presentation with Matt Raible in San Francisco, then spoke to developers in Saint Louis, then flew to New York City to shoot a video on continuous delivery for three days in a hot studio (over the weekend no less!) and now as I wing back to San Francisco I look forward to spending a blissful 14 hours on the ground before I’m off to Asia (Hangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, and Singapore) for about four weeks! I’m not the only who’s been busy, though! As usual, we’ve got a lot to cover this week so let’s get to it!