On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate of Spring Framework 5.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

Spring Framework 5.3.0-RC2 includes 38 fixes and improvements and is our last stop before GA proper scheduled 2 weeks from now.

Next up is Spring Boot 2.4.0-M4, stay tuned!

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! There's just so much to talk about this week and I scarcely know where to start so let's just get into it.

• A Bootiful Podcast: Reactor team engineer, fellow Java Champion, and conference organizer Audrey Neveu
• A look at the Sentry Spring Boot starter
• Apache Tomcat 10.0.0-M9 (alpha) is out
• Documenting Spring Boot Microservices with Optic
• Dr. B Talks About IoT and Edge Technology in Open Source and Why It’s Important
• Google Cloud now supports buildpacks | Google Cloud Blog
• JDK 15 Security Enhancements
• Last Call: VMworld Special Savings on Training & Certification
• Missed VMworld 2020?
• New candidate JEP: 395: Records
• Spring Cloud 2020.0.0-M4 (aka Ilford) Is Available
• …

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 5.3.5 (release notes), 5.2.7 (release notes), 5.1.13 (release notes) , 5.0.19 (release notes), 4.2.19 (release notes). These releases deliver bug fixes along with some minor improvements. Users are encouraged to update to the latest patch release.

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Hi, Spring fans! In this episode Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to Reactor team engineer, fellow Java Champion, and conference organizer Audrey Neveu (@Audrey_Neveu)

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce that the Milestone 4 (M4) of the Spring Cloud 2020 Release Train is available today. The release can be found in Spring Milestone repository. You can check out the 2020 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2020 Release Train

This release requires Spring Boot 2.4.0-M3.

Please 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.

Spring Cloud Commons

• The bootstrap phase is no longer enabled by default. If your project requires it, it can be re-enabled by properties or by a new starter. To re-enable by properties set spring.cloud.bootstrap.enabled=true or spring.config.use-legacy-processing=true. These need to be set as an environment variable, java system property or a command line argument. The other option is to include the new spring-cloud-starter-bootstrap. Bootstrap is mostly used to import configuration from remote sources. To do this without boostrap see the new features in Config, Consul, Vault and Zookeeper.

• Added a mechanism to avoid retrying on the same instance

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Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's been a fun week thus far - I spoke Monday at the first ever Garden State JUG event on testing Spring-based application and services and then today I spoke at the NYJava SIG about RSocket. Thank you so much for having me!

I can't believe it's already October 6th! We're closer to 2021 than 2019. Crazy. A quarter of a year to go. I just write these roundups and things seem to fly as a result.

We've got a lot to get to, so let's dive right in

• I wrote a preface for a Chinese-language book on reactive programming with Spring and you might enjoy the book, too
• A Bootiful Podcast: Long time Spring Framework engineer Arjen Poutsma on Spring's web support, Scala, API Design, Reactive programming and more
• Premiering: Cloud Native Java, Redux. I put together this quick, almost 50 minutes-long video, covering a ton of things: distributed locks, reactive service orchestration and…

The Spring on Azure team, in partnership with the Azure Cosmos DB team, are proud to have just made the Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB v3 generally available. This is the latest version of Azure Cosmos DB’s SQL API Spring Data connector.

Azure Cosmos is a highly-available globally-distributed multi-model database with competitive performance SLAs. With Spring Data Azure Cosmos DB, developers may use Spring Data natively on top of the Azure Cosmos DB SQL API to manipulate documents and issue custom or derived queries.

With the launch of the v3 connector, and its deep integration with Spring on…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of A Bootiful Podcast. In this installment Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to longtime Spring Framework engineer Arjen Poutsma (@poutsma)

Join Spring developer advocate Josh Long (@starbuxman) for a guided tour of a ton of the features, patterns, and principles in Spring Cloud and Spring Boot that support you when building production-optimized, cloud native Java applications