I can't even believe it's May already! STOP THE WORLD I WANT OFF! Well, at least the times are exciting! There's so much cool stuff to look at this week so let's get to it!

• New sessions are up on the shiny new SpringOne Platform website check it out! In addition to an Adrian Cockcroft keynote, we're got speakers booked from Netflix, Google, Comcast, Express Scripts, Kroger, along with Spring leaders like Juergen Hoeller, Dr. Dave Syer, Rossen Stoyanchev, Oliver Gierke, and of course, yours truly!
• and join Spring Cloud Data Flow leads Mark Fisher and Mark Pollack for a look at Data Driven Microservices with Spring Cloud Data Flow
• Spring Session and Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Session 1.2.0.RC3.
• Spring REST Docs lead …

As we've just shipped the GA release of Spring Data release train Hopper, let's take a deeper look at the changes and features that come with the 13 modules on the train. A very fundamental change in the release train's dependencies is the upgrade to Spring Framework 4.2 (currently 4.2.5) as baseline. This is in preparation for the upcoming 4.3 release of the framework. We also took the chance to upgrade our Querydsl integration to 4.x (currently 4.1) which required some breaking changes in very core abstractions. Besides that, Hopper contains quite a few significant major version changes its…

I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Data Geode 1.0.0.APACHE-GEODE-INCUBATING-M2, offering support for the recently announced Apache Geode 1.0.0-incubating.M2 release.

Spring Data Geode is a specific version of Spring Data GemFire with support for Apache Geode rather than Pivotal GemFire.

Both Spring Data GemFire and Spring Data Geode are based on the same source repository in GitHub, however, Apache Geode support lives in the apache-geode branch. Therefore, you won't find a separate Spring Data project specifically for Apache Geode, but this is of little consequence since your existing knowledge of Pivotal GemFire combined with Spring Data GemFire will be immediately useful and transferable to Apache Geode and Spring Data Geode…

Following 1.1.0.M1, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.1.0.RC1 has been released and is available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone/.

What's new?

HTTPie request snippet

A new HTTPie request snippet has been introduced. Similar to the existing curl request snippet, the new snippet contains the HTTPie command for a request. My thanks to Raman Gupta who contributed this new feature.

Reusable snippets

Snippets can now be created once with some common configuration and then reused. This reduces repetition when documenting common parts on an API, such as self links.

Relaxed…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.2.0.RC3. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone Repository (https://repo.spring.io/milestone/).

This release contains some fixes for the previous release.

Some highlights of the issues in this release include:

• JDBC Support persists session attributes on a separate table. This was in response to the community feedback (thanks!)
• Redis Session optimization
• Preparations for improved Spring Boot auto configuration
• Updated to Spring Data Hopper

See What's New in 1.2 for more details.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Budapest, Hungary, for the amazing Craft Conf. This show is a very special show indeed. Special, for me, first in that I'll be joined by industry titans like Adrian Cochroft, Jez Humble, Sam Newman, and Kyle Kingsbury, and in that I'll join two of my friends from Pivotal - Andrew Clay Shafer and Bridget Kromhout (also titans)! I'm so excited to be among these, and many more, that I can hardly contain it and I recommend you consider making the trip if it's convenient, one day, yourself.

Now then, we've got a lot to get…

Following previous Reactive Spring and Reactor Core 3.0 blog posts, I would like to explain why Reactive types are useful and how they compare to other asynchronous types, based on what we have learned while working on the Spring Framework 5 upcoming Reactive support.

Why using Reactive types?

Reactive types are not intended to allow you to process your requests or data faster, in fact they will introduce a small overhead compared to regular blocking processing. Their strength lies in their capacity to serve more request concurrently, and to handle operations with latency, such as requesting…

The latest milestone version of Spring Cloud is "Brixton.RC2" and it is available now from the usual repositories (details in the home page). This is a bugfix release building on the RC1, and there are no notable new features. If all goes well we'd like to get to a RELEASE in a week or two.

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Stuttgart and Mainz, Germany and Paris, France, speaking to customers and at the JAX conference, then it's off to Paris, France, to speak at the Devoxx France edition. If you're around in any of these places don't hesitate to reach out I'd love to say hello.

Also, tonight, I'll be joining my friends from industry (Daniel Bryant, Markus Eisele, and Simon Maple) for the ZeroTurnaround webinar, Microservices for the Enterprise. There are already more than 3,000 people registered and I hope to see you there, as well!

As usual…