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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another wild-and-wacky week of This Week in Spring! I’m in Johannesburg, South Africa where I both spoke at the SpringOne Tour South Africa event and at the Johannesburg Java User Group. Had tons of fun on safari visiting (from the safety of a good deal of distance and an SUV) the utterly astonishing and beautiful - majestic - wildlife here. I can’t stress that last part enough. The animals here are so, so, SO breathtaking. I got as close as I ever want to get to an elephant that was like a small house with eyes. Utterly massive! It towered over buses. When you go into the bush, my tour guide warned, you enter the food chain, and there, we don’t figure very high at all. The experience reminded me how insignificant I am and how utterly privileged I am to be here, with you, dear community. We’re all pretty lucky.

Hi Spring fans! In this week’s episode Josh talks to Microsoft’s Kylie Liang and Theresa Nguyen about the Microsoft Java and Spring integrations, the Java ecosystem, open-source, and more.

• Kylie (right) on Twitter (@liangkylie)
• Theresa (left) on Twitter (@RockClimberT)
• Josh on Twitter (@starbuxman)
• The “Spring Tips” screencast introducing the Spring and Microsoft Azure integration

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Cairo-SR8 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. With the IO Platform reaching end of life on 9 April 2019, this is expected to be the final IO Platform release.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 2.0.12
• Spring Batch 4.0.3
• Spring Cloud Connectors 2.0.5
• Spring Data Kay-SR14
• Spring Framework 5.0.13
• Spring HATEOAS 0.25.1
• Spring Integration 5.0.13
• Spring Retry 1.2.4
• Spring Security JWT 1.0.10
• Spring Security OAuth 2.2.4
• Spring Security 5.0.12
• Spring Session Apple-SR9
• Spring Web Services 3.0.7

I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR17 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:

• Spring AMQP 1.7.13
• Spring Boot 1.5.20
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.8
• Spring Data Ingalls SR20
• Spring Framework 4.3.23
• Spring Integration 4.3.20
• Spring Retry 1.2.4
• Spring Security 4.2.12
• Spring Security JWT 1.0.10
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.17
• Spring Web Services 2.4.5

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.4 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This is a maintenance release that includes a number of important dependency updates and bug fixes.

Since 1.5 will be end of life in august, all users should users should now be considering an upgrading to Spring Boot 2.1.

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.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.0.9 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This is a maintenance release that includes almost 40 dependency updates and selected bug fixes.

This is the last release in 2.0 line. Please consider upgrading to Spring Boot 2.1 if you haven’t already done so.

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.

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.5.20 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.5.20 is a maintenance release that includes over 30 dependency updates and selected bug fixes. These upgrades include Spring Security OAuth 2.0.17 which addresses a recently announced CVE.

If you haven’t already upgraded to Spring Boot 2, please consider doing so as support for 1.x will end on August 1st 2019.