This Week in Spring: Releases, R2DBC, Tutorials, and More

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! I just wrapped up my appearance in Brisbane, Australia, where I have been for the epic YOW! conference. Truly, one of my all-time favorite shows on the planet. I feel like an imposter in the ranks of the other speakers. I cannot recommend this show enough.

I’m just about to board my fight back to San Francisco, and we’ve got a ton of stuff to get to, so let’s press on!

• Spring Cloud Data Flow 2.3.0 GA is out!
• Stream Processing with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka Streams. Part 6 - State Stores and Interactive Queries
• Stream Processing with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka Streams. Part 5 - Application Customizations
• Spring Data R2DBC goes GA.
• Spring Boot 2.2.2 is now available
• Spring Boot 2.1.11 is now available
• In last week’s A Bootiful Podcast, I talked to Pivotal’s Katrina Bakas about the Pivotal HealthWatch product, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, and so much more.
• Stream Processing with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka Streams. Part 4 — Error Handling
• Stream Processing with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka Streams. Part 3 — Data deserialization and serialization
• Spring Data Moore SR3 and Lovelace SR14 are out.
• Stream Processing with Spring Cloud Stream and Apache Kafka Streams. Part 2 — Programming Model Continued
• Spring Framework maintenance roadmap in 2020 (including 4.3 EOL) — check it out!
• Spring Framework 5.2.2 and 5.1.12  are available now.
• Reactor team member Sergei Egorov’s new Daily Reactive series looks awesome! This is well worth a read, too!
• Have you checked out this month’s This Month in RabbitMQ round-up yet?
• I love Trisha Gee’s tutorial series introducing reactive Spring Boot.