On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.6 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.6 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.6 Release Train

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Commons

• Add utility method to configure zone-preference load-balancing with user-provided zone (#1174)

Spring Cloud Netflix

• Allow setting timeouts for fetching instances (#4110)

Spring…

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the General Availability (RELEASE) of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.5 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0.5 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0.5 Release Train

See the project page for all the issues and pull requests included in this release.

Spring Cloud Function

• Add support for Azure Timer Trigger in spring-cloud-function-azure

• Enhancement to AWS Function Invoker in spring-cloud-function-aws to programmatically inject function definition

• Add support for Azure Timer Trigger in spring-cloud-function-azure

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We have released Spring Cloud Function 3.2.6 to address the following CVE report.

• CVE-2202-22979: Spring Cloud Function Dos Vulnerability

Please review the information in the CVE report and upgrade immediately.

We have released Spring Cloud Function 3.1.7 & 3.2.3 to address the following CVE report.

• CVE-2022-22963: Remote code execution in Spring Cloud Function by malicious Spring Expression

Please review the information in the CVE report and upgrade immediately.

Spring Cloud 2021.0.0 is finally out and with it you have Spring Cloud Function 3.2

While the full list of features, enhancements and bug fixes is available here, I’d like to call out few of them in this post and provide some details.

gRPC Support

In addition to an already existing support for invoking function via AWS Lambda, RSocket, Spring Cloud Stream etc., Spring Cloud Function now allows you to invoke function via gRPC. Two ways to benefit from it.

Spring Message

Given the wide adaption of Spring Messaging, one way of benefiting from gRPC support is by embracing Spring's Message. Spring Cloud Function provides GrpcSpringMessage schema modeled after Spring's Message. It is internally converted to Spring Message to benefit from all of the existing support for Spring Messaging…

Introduction

We begin with a quick summary of the previous post.

• Message is an adequate structure and abstraction with which to consume data that represents a Cloud Event in the context of Spring. We hope it was clear.
• In Spring, our commitment to isolate functional versus non-functional concerns lets us address non-functional aspects (such as send, receive, retry, connect, convert, and others) at the framework level, letting you (mostly) concentrate on actual business logic and letting you keep your code simple and pluggable to a variety of execution contexts (more on this later).

The…

Prologue

Uniformity of data across systems and platforms is a singular and noble purpose of Cloud Event specification. With its growing adoption, the hope is that the developers and architects would no longer have to worry about how to deal with various events coming from different systems and platforms. . . But the point of this post is not to re-litigate or re-justify Cloud Events. A simple Google search renders quite a few points for you to read to help the "Why Cloud Events?" question. The goal of this and subsequent posts on the subject is to share some ideas and the work we've been…

We are pleased to announce the release of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR4 (3.0.4.RELEASE) release train which is available as part of Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR4 and builds on Spring Boot 2.2.6 and Spring Cloud Function 3.0.6.RELEASE which was also just released.

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR4 modules are available for use in the Maven Central repository.

This release contains several fixes and enhancements primarily driven by user's feedback, so thank you. For more details please follow these links:

• Spring Cloud Stream Core
• Spring Cloud Stream Rabbit Binder
• Spring Cloud Function

As mentioned, Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR4 was also released, but it only contains updates to Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Function.

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We are pleased to announce the release of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 (3.0.2.RELEASE) release train which is available as part of Spring Cloud Hoxton.SR2 (just released) and builds on Spring Boot 2.2.4 and Spring Cloud Function 3.0.2.RELEASE which was also just released.

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.SR2 modules are available for use in the Maven Central repository.

This release contains several fixes and enhancements primarily driven by user's feedback, so thank you. For more details please follow these links:

• Spring Cloud Stream Core
• Spring Cloud Stream Core Rabbit Binder
• Spring Cloud Stream Core Kafka Binder
• Spring Cloud Function
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We are pleased to announce the release of the Spring Cloud Stream Horsham (3.0.0.RELEASE) release train which is available as part of Spring Cloud Hoxton.RELEASE (imminent) and builds on Spring Boot 2.2.x and Spring Cloud Function 3.0.0.RELEASE which was also just released.

Spring Cloud Stream Horsham.RELEASE modules are available for use in the Maven Central repository.

Quick highlights:

As mentioned in these posts (demystified and simplified, functional and reactive, stream and spring Integration and event routing) preceding this announcement, the core theme of this release is functions!.

Historically, Spring Cloud Stream exposed annotation-based configuration model that required the user to be aware of and provide considerable amount of boilerplate information that could be otherwise easily inferred. You can read more details about it here…