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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 5.1.4, 5.0.12 and 4.3.22 are available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central now.

5.1.4 is a significant refinement release, addressing several regressions and gaps that have been identified since 5.1 GA, coming as an immediate upgrade for all 5.1.x users.

Please note that 5.0.12 is the last planned 5.0.x release, with 5.0 approaching its EOL in March 2019. All 5.0.x users are encouraged to upgrade to 5.1.4+ for further fixes and refinements.

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at how to use the Apache 2 licensed Flowable BPMN 2 workflow engine with Spring.

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I’ve just concluded the second of my two online trainings, one on Monday on Reactive Spring, and another today on using Spring Boot in Kotlin. This week I’ll be in Montreal, Canada for an appearance at the Montreal JUG and at Dawscon. I’d love to see you at both events! Come out and say “Hi!” or “Bonjour!”

• READ: I’ve got a new series introducing how to use Spring with Microsoft Azure. It’ll have six parts, with new installments every Monday and Thursday for three weeks. We’ve already published parts one and two. The first post Bootiful Azure: Taking Your First Steps with Microsoft Azure and part two is Bootiful Azure: SQL-based data access with Microsoft SQL Server.
• WATCH: In this last week’s Spring Tips installment I look at RSocket, the reactive, elastic integration protocol from Facebook and Pivotal, among others.
• LISTEN: In this week’s installment of my Bootiful Podcast we talked to observability icon and Micrometer lead Jon K Schneider about his observations on observing, microservices, Netflix, Pivotal and the Spring team.
• Spring Cloud Stream - Fishtown.RELEASE (2.1.0.RELEASE)
• Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.RELEASE
• Do not miss this January 29th webinar on Securing Microservices with Spring and Pivotal Cloud Foundry Webinar
• I dig this simple-to-grasp table illustrating the differences between Java Streams vs. Reactor’s Flux
• Boost the performance of your Spring Data JPA application
• A nice on article on the Baeldung blog on deploying a Spring Boot Application to Cloud Foundry
• Another nice Baeldung blog on deploying a Spring Boot Application to AWS Beanstalk
• Are you in San Francisco or the San Francisco, Bay Area? Do not miss Ben Hale’s Wednesday SF JUG talk on R2DBC
• Check out this tutorial on event-sourcing, CQRS and microservices with Spring
• Spring Boot-enabled Apache Camel integration with Rabbitmq and MongoDB 3
• By the way I recently did an eight part series introducing Spring for Google Cloud. You might want to check that series out, too.

After an exciting journey, we are pleased to announce the General Availability release of the Spring Cloud Stream Fishtown release train - Fishtown.RELEASE/2.1.0.RELEASE.

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.cloud</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-cloud-stream-dependencies</artifactId>
            <version>Fishtown.RELEASE</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

We are pleased to announce general availability of the Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.RELEASE.

Individual modules of Spring Cloud Function 2.0.0.RELEASE are available for use in the Spring Release repository as well as Maven Central repository.

This release encompasses the following:

• Kotlin support
• New programming model for Azure Functions
• Automatic (optional) export of Supplier on startup in web adapter
• Functional Bean Registrations
• Support for transparent type conversion for functions with input of type Collection
• Builds on Spring Boot 2.1

This is part 2 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn’t have put this together without input from Microsoft’s Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you’re reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

This is part 1 of a 6 part series, with new posts Mondays and Thursdays, introducing Microsoft Azure for Spring developers. I couldn’t have put this together without input from Microsoft’s Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, Yitao Dong, Bruno Borges, Brian Benz and Theresa Nguyen. You can find the code for this series on Github. Hit me up on Twitter (@starbuxman) as you’re reading the installments with any feedback or questions. You can also learn more about Microsoft Azure in my Spring Tips (@SpringTipsLive) installment, Bootiful Azure

speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the promising, reactive, elastic and fantastic protocol and Reactor-powered project RSocket from Facebook.

Hi Spring fans! Happy New Years to you! Here’s hoping that your new year is healthier and happier than the last. Did you notice that spiffy new numeral in the date? 2019? Isn’t that ’perty?? We made it! (We’re now a year away from 2020! I don’t know why that year holds so much sway for me…)

Also, this is the eighth anniversary of This Week in Spring! I started this series in the first week of January 2011. We’ve come a long way since then! This is as good a time as any to remind you that I love this community and I love reading what you’re up to. It’s a pleasure to learn with you. As always, I’m grateful for any contributions in this humble roundup; just hit me up on Twitter. My Direct Messages are wide-open. Thank you for everything you’ve done to drive this and for everything I know you will do, dear reader.

Hi Spring fans! In this installment of Spring Tips we look at the Spring Cloud integrations for some of Alibaba’s open source infrastructure, namely Nacos and Sentinel, and then we look at the Spring Cloud Alibaba Alibaba Cloud integrations for the Alibaba public cloud.

speaker: Josh Long