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Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another sunny installment of This Week in Spring! Can you believe we’re now staring down Q4 2019? How time flies!

As i write this I’m sat in a Radisson Blu hotel in Oslo, Norway, for the epic JavaZone show. I’ve got tons of wonderful memories at this hotel, often enjoyed with my friends on the Spring team, over many, many years. I love this show and am so glad to be back for the first time since 2015!

I landed today, recorded a few episodes of Spring Tips (new season starting soon!), took an ill-timed nap, and now here we are! We’ve got a ton to cover so let’s get to it!

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the sixth milestone of Spring Boot 2.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release contains over 140 issues and pull requests.

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.2 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

Our next 2.2 release will be RC1 later this month with GA to follow in mid-October. If you haven’t already done so, now is a great time to try a 2.2 milestone and provide us with your feedback. If you want to get started with 2.2 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io.

On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce Spring Data Moore RC3. The release ships with 84 tickets fixed and it will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.2 M6 for your convenience.

This release candidate finalizes our effort around Kotlin Coroutines which went GA with their 1.3 release. Besides that, the release ships with dependency upgrades, API refinements, bugfixes, and improvements to our documentation.

This is the last release candidate release before shipping Moore GA in late September. As SpringOne Platform happens in about a month, we’re excited to meet with the community in Austin, Texas October 7-10, 2019.

The Spring Cloud Data Flow team is pleased to announce the milestone release 2.3.0.M1 and the release of 2.2.1 GA.

Along with the bug fixes and enhancements, the first milestone of 2.3.0 also has the following new features:

• Improved Prometheus monitoring based on Prometheus RSocket. It uses persistent bidirectional (RSocket) connections between the Stream/Task applications and a Prometheus RSocket Proxy instance. When Prometheus scrapes the proxy instance, and the proxy, in turn, uses the connections to pull metrics from the applications.
• Ability to pass OAuth Access Token as command-line arguments for Composed Tasks
• Users can now specify a description of the stream when creating it. Thanks to Daniel Serleg for the contribution!
• Spring Cloud Scheduler SPI is now merged into Spring Cloud Deployer. We’ll deprecate the explicit spring-cloud-scheduler project and its implementations on Cloud Foundry, K8s and have them available as part of spring-cloud-deployer.

Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, @starbuxman talks to Spring Integration lead Gary Russell about Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, Spring Integration and more.

• Gary on Twitter (@gprussell)
• the Spring Integration project page

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.8 has been released and is is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release includes 77 fixes, improvements and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

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.