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On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 4 (M4) of the Spring Cloud 2020 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2020 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020 Release Train

This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.0-M3.

Please see [the wiki] for a list of all breaking changes in this release train.

See all of the included issues and pull requests at the Github project.

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It’s been a fun week thus far - I spoke Monday at the first ever Garden State JUG event on testing Spring-based application and services and then today I spoke at the NYJava SIG about RSocket. Thank you so much for having me!

I can’t believe it’s already October 6th! We’re closer to 2021 than 2019. Crazy. A quarter of a year to go. I just write these roundups and things seem to fly as a result.

We’ve got a lot to get to, so let’s dive right in

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to longtime Spring Framework engineer Arjen Poutsma (@poutsma)

Join Spring developer advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman) for a guided tour of a ton of the features, patterns, and principles in Spring Cloud and Spring Boot that support you when building production-optimized, cloud native Java applications

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another awesome week in Spring! Can you believe we’re staring down October, 2020 already? I can’t. Time sure flies…. or something. There’s a lot to get to so let’s get to it.

• Spring Cloud LoadBalancer replaces the Netflix Ribbon, provides a pluggable algorithm, reactive support, and extensible configuration.
• Interested in knowing about the 10 Itemprocessors that out of the box Spring Batch has? Watch the full session here
• Sentry CTO David Cramer on Automated Error Capture and Analysis
• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.7.0-M1 and 2.6.3 Released
• Spring is a season of Programming Love with Josh Long – Programming Love
• Steven Rostedt on the Linux Kernel’s “Hello World”
• The Dark Secrets of Fast Compilation for Kotlin – Kotlin Blog | JetBrains
• The Wavefront documentation has been updated with more information on Spring Boot
• Happy 25th Anniversary NYJavaSIG!
• A Customer Community Like No Other: VMware Champions
• Add Hints and example for Data Neo4j. by michael-simons · Pull Request #287 · spring-projects-experimental/spring-graalvm-native
• Case Study: Remote File Ingest with Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Destination VMworld – Vision & Innovation Track
• KubeCon & Spring One 2020: From Monoliths to K8s – Salaboy (Open Source Knowledge)
• Microsoft contributes to Java port for Apple silicon Macs | Appleinsider
• New candidate JEP: 391: macOS/AArch64 Port
• New candidate JEP: 392: Packaging Tool
• New candidate JEP: 393: Foreign-Memory Access API (3rd Incubator)
• Venkat Subramaniam: Java is changing in a responsible manner

Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the release of 2.7.0-M1 and 2.6.3

While the release 2.6.3 has the bug fixes, the first milestone of 2.7.0 has the following enhancements:

SCDF dashboard re-design using VMware Clarity toolkit

SCDF dashboard is re-designed using VMware Clarity design system. This is a complete rewrite of SCDF dashboard GUI to get the benefits of the Clarity design.

Spring Boot 2.3.2 Update

SCDF server components are now updated to use Spring Boot 2.3.2 release.

Wavefront integration

Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks about the wide world of web development with CSS, Figma, AdobeXD and more, and then talks to Sentry CTO David Cramer (@zeeg) about easy error capture and analysis with Sentry and Spring.

• Want to see the worldwide flurry of activity as errors make their way to Sentry? Check this out

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another fun-filled and fantastic installment of This Week in Spring where we review the week that was in the Java ecosystem. It’s been quite a week indeed. SOoo many new releases and so many interesting things going on in the larger Spring, Java, Azure, and VMware ecosystems, that we don’t have a moment to waste so: onward!

• A Bootiful Podcast: Lightbend CTO Jonas Bonér on his epic, aspect-oriented, distributed, reactive work
• Ask the Java Architects Panel
• Azure + Spring Boot = Serverless - Q&A with Julien Dubois
• Azure in the Enterprise: Azure Object Storage Service and Spring Boot
• Intel’s VMworld Sessions Highlight Modernized Infrastructure from Edge to Cloud
• Java Language Futures - Mid 2020 Edition
• Keeping Your Java Applications Secure - Cryptographic Improvements and Best Practices
• Keynote - The Future of Java Is Now
• Microsoft Azure and VMware makes the path to the cloud easier
• Moving forward together with Dell Technologies and VMware at VMworld 2020
• Running JDK pre-submit testing on GitHub
• Spring Batch 4.3.0-RC1 available now!
• Spring Boot 2.1.17 available now
• Spring Boot 2.2.10 available now
• Spring Boot 2.3.4 available now
• Spring Boot 2.4.0.M3 available now
• Spring Boot for Apache Geode 1.1.10.RELEASE, 1.2.10.RELEASE, 1.3.4.RELEASE and 1.4.0-M3 available!
• Spring Data 2020.0.0 goes RC1
• Spring Data Neumann SR4, Moore SR10 and Lovelace SR20
• Spring Integration 5.4 Milestone 3 Available
• Spring REST Docs 2.0.5.RELEASE
• Spring Security SAML Extensions 1.x EOL on October 6, 2021
• Spring Session for Apache Geode 2.1.11.RELEASE, 2.2.5.RELEASE, 2.3.1.RELEASE & 2.4.0-RC1 available!
• Spring Tools 4.8.0 released
• Will it scale? Azure Spring Cloud for the win!
• Yugabyte - a unique distributed and NoSQL database - has a very promising Spring integratoin
• ZGC - What’s new in JDK 15