Hi Spring fans! What a week! This week I'm in beautiful Dallas, TX, for the Spring One Tour Dallas event which is, like so many of the other cities already, utterly and completely sold out! What a crowd!

Wow #SpringOneTour Dallas, you’re so #bootiful ! pic.twitter.com/SySCBw4UNX

— Josh Long (龙之春, जोश) (@starbuxman) April 3, 2018

And, so, without further ado, let's get to it!

• Spring Framework Juergen Hoeller has just announced Spring Framework 5.0.5 and 4.3.15 are now available.
• Check out the PR supporting Pact v3 in Spring Cloud Contract.next. Now would be a good time to try it out and feedback!
• PCF 2.1 and the Quest for a One Pizza Ops Team
• Check out this shiny new Kotlin DSL for Spring Data Cassandra!
• Spring Boot lead Phil Webb has published a nice look at property binding in Spring Boot 2.0
• Spring Batch 1.0.0. was released ten years and a week ago, on March 28th, 2018. Happy tenth anniversary, Spring Batch!
• Roy Clarkson has just announced that the Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.0.0.M2 is now available. Spring Cloud Open Service Broker is a framework for building Spring Boot applications that implement the Open Service Broker API.
• Ryan Baxter has just announced Spring Cloud Edware SR3 which includes a number of refinements which you should definitely check out!
• GitHub - dsyer/riff-http
• Java 10 migration: Is it a breeze or a tornado? - JAXenter
• Check out this post on using JUnit 5 with Gradle
• This post looks at using Spring Boot 2, Micrometer, Prometheus and Grafana together - check it out!
• It was recently Greg Turnquist's birthday. Greg is the chap who toils tirelessly on all the amazing http://Spring.io/guides. So, for his birthday, won't you take a moment and say "thanks"?
• This is an interesting template application that demonstrates how to wire up Spring, JWT, React and Redux together.
• Hey Atlanta, I'll be there April 10 looking at building reactive microservices with Project Reactor, Spring Boot 2.0, and Spring Cloud Finchley. Check it out!
• This is an oldie-but-a-goodie: it looks at the details of connection pools
• Check out this link for an epic 5 part webinar series on domain-driven design with Spring Boot, event-sourcing, microservices and more.!
• The latest Camunda BPMN Spring Boot Starter (3.0-alpha1) now supports Spring Boot 2.0!
• March 28th, 2018, was the ten year anniversary of Spring Batch 1.0! What a wicked, wonderful journey it's been since then! Happy birthday, Batch!
• I'm so looking forward to this upcoming webinar on why Spring Boot and Java are magic together on Microsoft Azure
• Lettuce, a Redis driver that you can use with Spring Data Redis, 4.4.4.Final and 5.0.3.RELEASE are out now. 5.0.3.RELEASE fixes a critical Redis Cluster issue that left connections open.
• TL;DR: the Spring Initializr's use is expanding massively! Over the past 30 days, 38.5% more projects created at http://start.spring.io than the previous month (not year!) before. Well over 850,000 projects, now!
• Check out this SpringOne Platform 2017 talk from Christoph Strobl and Mark Paluch introducing reactive Spring Data
• JAXenter have a nice German-language post on using Micrometer and Spring Boot 2.0 to collect metrics
• Check out this talk on creating reactive applications that can be deployed on Apache Tomcat or any Servlet 3.1 compatible containers from SpringOne Platform 2017
• Hat tip to Matt Stine who says this is the best article he's read on testing in a long time. Hes right! It's good
• Check out the second part of my series on building Reactive applications with Spring Boot in Java Magazine this month! (It's a free download!)