Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.4 is now available. This release addresses over 80 minor issues and updates Spring's support for some recent third-party releases including Hibernate Core 3.6, Hibernate Validator 4.1, EclipseLink 2.1, and EHCache 2.2.

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All the latest features for Spring as well as advanced technical sessions and roadmap discussion will be happening at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago, October 19th-21st. Be sure to register now to lock in an early registration discount.

Don't forget that Spring users can ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well.

SpringSource has just released a new milestone version of SpringSource Tool Suite: 2.3.2.M2. STS provides the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring and Grails powered enterprise applications. Here are some highlights from the release:

• integration with GWT and Google App Engine
• visual editor for Spring Integration
• support for Spring Roo 1.1.0.M2
• non-locking class loader infrastructure
• new Grails Project Explorer, Perspective and Plugin Manager
• new Subclipse and Subversive extension installs

This is also the first time we are providing bundles based on Eclipse 3.5 and 3.6. If you aren't quite ready to try the cutting edge milestone release, then you can always download the 2.3.2.RELEASE version.

You can also get community support in the Spring Development Tools support forums. If you want to provide direct technical feedback, open a JIRA issue against the SpringSource Tool…

The first Apache Tomcat 7 release, Tomcat 7.0.0 beta, is now available from the Tomcat 7 download page at the Apache Software Foundation.

SpringSource's Tomcat expert, Mark Thomas, describes the details of the release at TomcatExpert.com.In addition to the implementation of the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 and EL 2.2 specifications, Tomcat 7 boasts a number of new features:

• memory leak prevention and detection
• protection against session fixation attacks
• a simple filter to add cross-site request forgery protection to an application
• simplified embedding
• alias support
• better security for the Manager and Host Manager applications

Developers interested in using Tomcat should also check out tc Server Developer Edition which incorporates the Spring Insight performance analysis console. The tc Server team are tracking the Tomcat beta process and will provide…

Juergen Hoeller has announced that Spring 3.0.3 is now available. This minor release addresses over 100 minor issues and catches up with some recent third-party releases.

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Please note that we are not providing a dependencies download anymore. The recommended way of obtaining third-party libraries for use with Spring is Maven/Ivy; you could also download third-party distributions of your choice and take the jars from there. Note that there is no reason to upgrade third-party libraries unless you want to: The simplest solution is to keep using the versions that you know and trust.

Don't forget that Spring users can ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well.

The latest version of SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) is now available. STS is the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring, Groovy and Grails powered enterprise applications. The new version (2.3.2) is now available for download and provides mostly fixes for some minor bugs and some performance improvements.

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Now is a great time to start working with STS and please use the community forum to give your feedback and ask questions.

The latest version of SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) is now available. STS is the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring, Groovy and Grails powered enterprise applications. The new version (2.3.1) is now available for download and uses the latest Eclipse 3.5.2 base. Other features include

• The latest version of tc Server Developer Edition with improvements to the integration with the Spring Insight console.
• Namespace Handlers can now be loaded from the project’s classpath which allows the use of namespaces that are not already known to STS
• Significant performance and memory consumption improvements.

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Now is a great time to start working with STS and please use the community forum to give your feedback and ask questions.

Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.1 is now available and Juergen Hoeller has blogged about the changes in this minor release.

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Don't forget that Spring users can ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well. Please keep up the good work so that we can continue to make all the Spring projects better and better. European developers can learn more about Spring 3.0 at the one day S2G Forum in Munich on March 18th, or at the other S2G Forums in London and Amsterdam (dates to be announced soon).

We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Batch 2.1.0. Thank you to all the people who have been tracking the milestones and providing feedback.

Check out the project website for a list of supported features, and also the release announcement in the community forum for more detailed information.

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To assist all developers with their upgrade to Spring 3.0 GA, SpringSource has released an update to SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring, Groovy and Grails powered enterprise applications. The new version (2.3.0) is now available for download and includes:

• Comprehensive updates to support all new Spring 3.0.0.RELEASE features.
• New support for Spring Integration, Spring Web Services and Spring BlazeDS/Flex namespaces.
• Updates to support the recent Spring Roo 1.0.0.RC4.
• Improved Grails tooling, including support for the latest Grails 1.2 snapshot.

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We hope you enjoy using STS and please use the community forum to give your feedback and ask questions.

It's here just in time for the holidays! Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.0 is now final and Juergen Hoeller has blogged about the features in the release.

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Congratulations to Juergen, Arjen and all the other SpringSource engineers that worked so hard on the release. Also a huge thank you to all of the dedicated community members that have given feedback and identified issues along the way. Please keep up the good work so that we can continue to make all the Spring projects better and better.