We are pleased to announce the first Release Candidate of the Spring Cloud Function - 2.0.0.RC1.

Individual modules of Spring Cloud Function 2.0.0.RC1 are available for use in the Spring Milestone repository.

Aside form general enhancements and bug fixes, 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

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-cloud-function tag…

Good things come in pairs, so I am happy to announce the availability of Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire (SSDG) 2.0.6.RELEASE and 2.1.0.RELEASE.

SSDG 2.0.6.RELEASE, based on Spring Framework 5.0.10.RELEASE, Spring Data Kay-SR11 and Spring Session core 2.0.7.RELEASE mainly contains dependency updates.

SSDG 2.1.0.RELEASE, on the other hand, has been upgraded to Spring Framework 5.1.1.RELEASE, Spring Data Lovelace-SR1 and Spring Session core 2.1.0.RELEASE, and additionally includes support for custom Session expiration policies and rules.

Custom Session Expiration Configuration

Spring Session for Apache Geode & Pivotal GemFire now provides a new Strategy interface, SessionExpirationPolicy…

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I've just flown back from Canada and Russia where I was at the amazing Joker conference in St. Petersburg. I'm now in San Francisco (where I live!) for a couple of days to soak up the amazing atmosphere around Oracle CodeOne, reunited with the Java community and longtime friends. I'm so excited about the presentation that fellow Java Champion Trisha Gee and I are doing tomorrow at 11:30 am that introduces an end-to-end reactive and Spring-based application from JavaFX client to service. Do not miss this!

After…

Spring Cloud Function has a couple of new features in 2.0 (still in milestone phase), and possibly the most dramatic is the ability to go "fully functional". This is made possible by changes in Spring Boot 2.1 together with Spring Framework 5.1, and it means a different way of thinking about bean definitions in Spring applications, but also significant improvements in startup performance.

AWS Cost Savings

It’s always good to start with a picture, especially if it tells a story. Here’s a graph that shows the improvement in Spring Cloud Function 2.0 over 1.0, comparing the cost of cold starts in…

Just starting your dev career? Check out this last report on the JVM ecosystem. Simon Maple, Andrew Binstock, and many others have done developers of all skill levels a great service with this data.

<@snyksec>Mirror mirror on the wall, which is the most popular Java web framework of them all?

<Mirror> We live in a Spring-world. In fact, the average application is more likely to use Spring than not! 54% of apps use Spring Boot/Spring MVC/JHipster.https://t.co/2dkjt6xauK pic.twitter.com/KcMYWew6Jk

— Simon Maple (@sjmaple) October 19, 2018

I'm a long-time Spring developer, and I've advocated for it for the last 10 years. It's no surprise how widely adopted it is. Spring Boot dominates the Cloud Native Java ecosystem. Download numbers keep growing at unseen rates. In fact, according to the survey, there are more people developing using Spring technologies than not. It's a great time to be a Java developer!

I could be happier though…

The following CVEs have been published today:

1. CVE-2018-15756 for Spring Framework 5.1.1, 5.0.10, and 4.3.20.
2. CVE-2018-15758 for Spring Security OAuth 2.3.4, 2.2.3, 2.1.3, and 2.0.16.

Please, review the information, including affected project versions, in the CVE reports and upgrade immediately.

Spring Boot Users: Spring Boot 2.0.6 and 1.5.17, released earlier today, contain the fixes for the above vulnerabilities.

Bienvenidos a todos a la segunda edición de Spring Noticias en Español!!

Como siempre, envíame noticias de tus logros en @mkheck en Twitter, [email protected], o [email protected] y los compartiré con la comunidad.

Para esta edición, aquí tienes unos artículos muy interesantes:

• Este artículo (en dos partes!) combina dos amores míos: Spring Boot y Kotlin! Otra tutorial excelente por Profesor P sobre crear una aplicación CRUD con REST en Kotlin y Spring Boot:

  • 1ra parte

  • 2ra parte

• Me encanta esta serie intensiva por Carlos Salazar en el blog Codesolt sobre como crear y probar una aplicación web con Spring Framework 4:

  • Tutorial Spring REST 1/9 – Construcción de proyecto Web en Spring 4 con Maven

  • Tutorial Spring REST 2/9 – Configuración de un servicio REST con Spring 4

  • Tutorial Spring REST 3/9 – Configurar OAUTH2 en un proyecto REST de Spring 4

  • Tutorial Spring REST 4/9 – Configuración de Hibernate Validator con Spring 4

  • Tutorial Spring REST 5/9 – Acceso a bases de datos SQL con Spring 4 y JPA

  • Tutorial Spring REST 6/9 – Configuración de Swagger 2 en Spring 4

  • Tutorial Spring REST 7/9 – Testing en Servicios REST con JUnit

  • Tutorial Spring REST 8/9 – Tomcat embebido en Maven

  • Tutorial Spring REST 9/9 – Probando tu servicio REST desde Postman

    …

Hi Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Toronto, Canada, where I've been speaking to customers and at a meetup, then it's off to St. Petersburg, Russia for the epic Joker conf 2018. As usual, we've got a ton to cover so let's get to it!

• Check out this new version of the legendary Spring Petclinic, based on the new Spring Data JDBC
• Spring Security OAuth 2.3.4, 2.2.3, 2.1.3, 2.0.16 Released
• Rossen Stoyanchev has just announced the publication, and resolution for, two CVEs affecting Spring - READ THIS!
• Spring Boot 2.0.6
• Spring Session Apple SR6 Released
• Spring Security 5.1.1, 5.0.9, and 4.2.9 Released
• Spring Boot 1.5.17
• Some nice posts here for the Spanish-language readers
• Spring Data Lovelace SR1, Kay SR11, and Ingalls SR16 released
• Spring Framework 5.1.1, 5.0.10 and 4.3.20 available now
• …

Hi Spring fans! This week I'm in sunny San Francisco for the epic SpringOne Tour San Francisco event. I'm also heads down preparing for the rush of travel ahead of me. Starting on the 14th, I'll start four weeks of travel, bringing the message far-and-wide to Toronto, St. Petersburg, Brussels, San Francisco, Hartford, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Singapore, Seoul, Hong Kong, and.. I forget.. but there's more! I'm so looking forward to seeing you all at each and everyone of those places!

I also loved this tweet from Pivotal today for me:

Josh we're working on putting a Spring signal on the roof. pic.twitter.com/OInXwcte6Y

— Pivotal (@pivotal) October 9, 2018

Anyway, there's SO MUCH to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 3.0.0.M1 released
• Spring Cloud Open Service Broker 2.1.0.M1 released
• This is pretty cool! we're excited to announce, along with Heroku and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, that the Cloud Natives Buildpacks technology was accepted int he CNCF!
• Hola mundo! Read Spanish? Know someone who does? You might appreciate this curated list of interesting reading, en Español!
• Happy Ada Lovelace day! As you know, we name each Spring Data release train after a prominent computer scientist. This one is named for Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and writer, she was chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's proposed mechanical general-purpose computer, the Analytical Engine. Once you're done reading more into this hero and this self described "poetical scientist", you might also read up on the new features our current Spring Data Lovelace release train…