Hi, Spring fans! This week, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to transformational leader, my old boss, legendary technologist, and friend Patrick Chanezon (@chanezon).

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the release of Spring Native 0.11, which provides native support for Spring Boot 2.6. This ambitious release is the result of five months of hard work by the Spring team, who have been working on a brand new architecture to bring Spring support for creating native executables with GraalVM to the next level. You can already try it on start.spring.io!

Learn more about Spring Native 0.11 and see it in action in this new Spring Tips video from Spring Developer Advocate Josh Long.

New Ahead-Of-Time Engine

The…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 4.13.0 release of the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse, Visual Studio Code, and Theia.

major changes to the Spring Tools 4 for Eclipse distribution

• updated to Eclipse 2021-12 release (including support for Java 17) (new and noteworthy)
• builds for Apple Silicon platform (ARM M1) are available now from the regular download page

additional changes

• (Spring Boot) fixed: STS 4.12.0 (for eclipse) *.yml can't automatic prompt (#690)
• (Spring Boot) fixed: A StackOverFlow error for serializable Kotlin data class for autocompletion in the Eclipse IDE (#693)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Typescript comparison: An internal error occurred during: "LSP4E Linked Editing Highlight" (#700)
• (Eclipse) fixed: js syntax highlight disabled by STS4 (#702)
• (Eclipse) fixed: Cannot copy/paste from ANSI console without escape sequences (#667) - fixed in ANSI Color Console project thanks to @mihnita
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Secure communications end-to-end for Spring Boot apps - in a Zero Trust environment

Hi, Spring fans! Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of all the features to secure communications end-to-end for Spring Boot apps – in a Zero Trust environment. You can secure communications end-to-end or terminate transport level security at any communication point for Spring Boot apps. You can also automate the provisioning and configuration for all the Azure resources needed for securing communications.

Implementing secure communications as part of your solution architecture can be…

Starting from version 3.1.0 as part of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.0 (aka Jubilee) release train, Spring Cloud Gateway included support for gRPC and HTTP/2.

We will introduce the basic concepts behind gRPC and how to configure it with two examples:

• One that showcases how Spring Cloud Gateway can transparently re-route gRPC traffic without needing to know the proto definition and without having to modify our existing gRPC servers.

• Another that showcases how we can create a custom filter in Spring Cloud Gateway to transform a JSON payload to a gRPC message.

Introduction to gRPC and HTTP/2

HTTP…

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a ton of stuff to dive into so let's get goin'!

• A Bootiful Podcast: DataStax's Christopher Bradford on the Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, K8ssandra
• Accelerate Spring Apps to Cloud at Scale - Discussion with Azure Spring Cloud Customers
• Spring Authorization Server 0.2.1 available now
• Spring Cloud 2021.0.0 (codename Jubilee) Has Been Released
• Spring Cloud Function 3.2 is out!
• Spring Cloud Sleuth 3.1.0 is out!
• Spring Tips: @Controllers and RSocket
• JSON:API for Spring HATEOAS
• Living with Kubernetes: 12 Commands to Debug Your Workloads
• Hmm. I wonder what Mark Paluch's cooking something awesome with the R2DBC SPI. I wonder what...?
• Nice job, Github Actions! There's now integrated sigstore support! …

With the release of the Spring Cloud 2021.0.0 (aka Jubilee) release train we're more than happy to announce the general availability of Spring Cloud Sleuth 3.1.0. In this blog post we'll describe the most notable released features.

Here is the list of most notable features, we'll elaborate on them in the subsequent parts of this post.

• JDBC #1930
• Tomcat Valve #1329
• Spring Vault #1952
• Automatic tag table generation for documentation #1950
• Spring Cloud Deployer #1947
• R2DBC #1524
• Kafka #2013 and Reactor Kafka #1708
• Spring TX #1941
• Spring Batch #1904
• RSocket #1677
• Spring Cloud Task #1903
• Spring Cloud Config #1915
• Spring Cloud CircuitBreaker Reactive #1910
• Cassandra #1974
• Spring Session #1961
• Spring Security #2011
• Prometheus Exemplars #2039
• Spring Cloud Stream Reactive #2038
• Reactive Mongo #2044
• Abstracted Redis instrumentation #2046
• Custom Actuator for storing traces #1879
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Hi, Spring fans! In this installment, Josh Long (@starbuxman) talks to DataStax's Christopher Bradford on the Apache Cassandra operator for Kubernetes, K8ssandra.

• KubeCon Talk blogpost part 1
• KubeCon Talk blogpost part 2
• We Pushed Helm to the Limit, then Built a Kubernetes Operator
• A Case for Databases on Kubernetes from a Former Skeptic

On behalf of the community, I am pleased to announce the General Availability of the Spring Cloud 2021.0 Release Train, codename Jubilee, is available today. The release can be found in Maven Central. You can check out the 2021.0 release notes for more information.

Notable Changes in the 2021.0 Release Train

2021.0.0 is compatible with Spring Boot 2.6.1

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

Spring Cloud Commons

• Support for per LoadBalancer configuration properties (added as well to Gateway, Contract and OpenFeign).

Spring Cloud Config

• Integration with AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Parameter Store and GCP Secret Manager.
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