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Join Josh Long (@starbuxman), Nate Schutta, Mark Heckler (@mkheck), Cora Iberkleid (@ciberkleid), Paul Czarkowski (@pczarkowski), and Tiffany Jernigan (@tiffanyfayj) for this journey from code with Spring Boot to production on Kubernetes.

For more great Tanzu, Kubernetes, and Spring content, check out our VMware Tanzu channel

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

Friends, director of Spring engineering and Spring Native cofounder Andy Clement and I will be doing a presentation with Bellsoft’s Dmitry Chuyko called Spring Boot: Production-ready, Efficient, Fast: Pick Three, that introduces how to build GraalVM native images for Spring Boot applications with the new Spring Native project. Do not miss this webinar on March 25th at 11 am.

• Join Spring Cloud for Kubernetes lead Chris Sterling for this webinar, GitOps for APIs: Enterprise Microservices in the Age of Kubernetes, on March 25, 2021, at 9:00 AM PTA.
• Join VMWare Tanzu CTO James Watters for this webinar, What Is Tanzu?, on March 24th at 17:00 CET.
• A nice Japanese language blog on the just-announced Spring Native project
• Hi, Spring fans! In last week’s installment of A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to fellow Java champion and legend Angie Jones
• An Azure Spring Cloud Update: Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale are now generally available in Azure Spring Cloud
• Bootiful Cassandra with DataStax’s Patrick McFadin, Cedrick Lunven, and Spring’s Josh Long
• Creating High Quality OAS Definitions with Springfox - Part 1: Security Definitions - 42Crunch
• DevOpsChat Articles - Kicking Spring Native’s Tires
• Oracle finally released the R2DBC driver to Maven central! Get the bits while they’re hot!
• Spring Boot cofounder and lead Phil Webb on Twitter: “A massive thank you to the readers of DZone that voted Spring Boot as their favorite software framework! It was an honor to collect the award on behalf of the team and contributors.”
• Spring Batch 4.3.2 and 4.2.6 available now
• Spring Boot 2.4.4 available now
• Spring Tools 4.10.0 released
• Spring Boot 2.5.0-M3 available now
• Spring Cloud AWS 2.3 is now available
• Spring Data 2021.0.0-M5, 2020.0.6, and Neumann SR8 released
• Spring Integration 5.5 M3 & 5.4.5 Available
• Check out this appendix to the book Spring Quickly; there’s a lot of good stuff in there!

Hi, Spring fans! I hope you’ll join the legendary Andy Clement (director of engineering on the Spring team, Spring/AspectJ/Spring Tool Suite/Eclipse contributor, and Spring Native cofounder) and me, well known ASCII art fan, for the upcoming JRUSH event.

At some point, after you’ve gotten the business logic just right and the ASCII art resplendent, you’ll want to reduce data center spend and improve speed. And when this time comes, you’re going to wish you had watched this presentation where Andy and Josh introduce the Spring Native project. You don’t want regrets, do you, friend? Do the right thing. Be the change you want to see in the world: register now

Hi, Spring fans! DataStax and Spring are the classic Netflixian definition of a cloud-native, and for good reason:

• they scales
• they’re easy
• they’re easily operationalized

In this video, join DataStax’s Patrick McFadin (@PatrickMcFadin), Cedrick Lunven (@clunven), and the Spring team’s Josh Long (@starbuxman) as they introduce Bootiful Cassandra and look at some of the technology that continues to power some of the largest websites on the planet.

Register for DataStax Astra now and try this code anytime. You don’t need a credit card, and you get $25.00 USD credit every month, which gives you roughly 30M reads, 5M writes, 40GB storage monthly. That’s sufficient enough to run this demo and even a small production workload.

I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.5 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release adds a number of new features and bug fixes.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• OpenMetrics support for Prometheus
• Support for environment variable prefixes
• More Buildpack updates
• A fresh new look for the docs (including a “dark theme”).

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.5-M3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another wild and wonderful installment of A Bootiful Podcast! In this episode, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to inspiration, legend and fellow Java champion and legend Angie Jones (@techgirl1908). Also: Java 16, the R2DBC driver for Oracle database, Spring Native (GraalVM!), and Bootiful Cassandra!

I am pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.3.2 and 4.2.6 have been released and are available now from Maven Central repository. These releases include a number of bug fixes and improvements. You can find the change logs here: 4.2.6 and 4.3.2.

I would like to thank all contributors who helped in making these releases possible!

Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that Service Release 2 of the Spring Cloud 2020.0 Release Train (2020.0.2) is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2020.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020.0.2 Release Train

This release was primarliy for bug fixes and dependency upgrades.

See this page for a list of Known Issues.

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.

NOTE: this post was written by our friend Kylie Liang (@liangkylie) from the Microsoft Azure Spring Cloud team. Thanks, Kylie!

We are excited to announce the general availability of the Azure Spring Cloud Managed Virtual Network and Autoscale features. Both are critical to securely running production workloads at scale on the Azure Spring Cloud service.

Secure Azure Spring Cloud in Managed Virtual Network

With the Managed Virtual Network feature, you can provision the Azure Spring Cloud service in your virtual network which enables: