It's getting closer. Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.0.RC3 is now available. This release candidate contains lots of fixes to issues raised by community members.

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Thank you to all of the dedicated community members that have given feedback and identified issues. Please keep up the good work so that we can get a high quality 3.0 GA release.

Fresh from Arjen Poutsma's twitter feed: Spring 3.0.0.RC2 is now available. The release candidate contains lots of fixes to issues raised by community members and has also been updated to support the final versions of JSR-330 "javax.inject" and JSR-303 "javax.validation" APIs.

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Thank you to all of the dedicated community members that have given feedback and identified issues. Please keep up the good work as we move closer to GA.

Today 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 latest version (2.2.1) is now available for download and includes:

• Hot on the heels of the latest Spring Roo release, STS now supports Spring Roo 1.0.0.RC3 and enhances the Roo shell with hyperlinking to application files letting you open them for editing with a single click.
• The STS Grails tools have been updated to include a GSP editor for easy page template editing. The Grails tools can be downloaded as an extension to STS.
• Support for the latest milestones of SpringSource dm Server: 2.0.0.M6.
• Improvements to the Cloud Foundry integration that Charles Lee discussed in today's blog post.

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

This news just in from Arjen Poutsma's twitter feed: Spring 3.0.0.RC1 is now available.

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Thank you to all of the dedicated community members that have given feedback and identified issues. Please keep up the good work as we push toward GA.

This release got overshadowed by some of the recent news this week, but I want to tell the community that Spring 3.0.0.M4 is now available.

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This release includes some documentation changes, updated OSGi manifest information, a number of other improvements, along with some small revisions to supported frameworks like Hibernate, Tiles and others. Thank you to all of the dedicated community members that have given feedback and identified issues.

SpringSource Tool Suite 2.1.0 is now GA and ready for download. Christian Dupuis' blog post covers all the new features included in the best development tool for building Spring powered applications:

• Eclipse 3.5 (Galileo) support and platform specific installers for Windows/Mac OS X/Linux
• Support for milestones of Spring 3.0 including XML editing and validation, support for @Configuration and @Bean annotations
• Support for milestones of SpringSource dm Server 2.0, RFC66 web modules and SpringSource Bundlor integration
• Integration of Spring Roo for rapid application development
• Optional integration of the new alpha Groovy Eclipse Plugin

The latest release candidate for SpringSource Tool Suite has been updated to run on the brand new Eclipse Galileo release. STS 2.1.0.RC1 includes support for Spring Roo, SpringSource dm Server and tc Server, enterprise OSGi tools, as well as all the usual great Spring development tools. This newest version also provides support for a Mac OS X 64 bit Cocoa client. Of course the download for SpringSource Tool Suite is free so get started with the best IDE for enterprise Java development today.

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If you aren't following the SpringSource blog you may have missed it, but last week Juergen Hoeller announced the availability of the second milestone for Spring 3.0. Juergen's blog post covers all of the details about the milestone including the new RestTemplate, early JPA 2.0 support, more Java 5 style API updates and other improvements.

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Juergen Hoeller's latest blog announces the release of the first milestone for Spring 3.0. The main highlights are the addition of REST support, the Spring Expression Language (EL) and the move to Java 5 and above. The blog post contains the details.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.5.6 has been released.
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This release primarily fixes some bugs and also adds some new features:

• Over 100 resolved issues
• Updates to match up with latest version of some third party libraries, for example:
  • AspectJ 1.6.2
  • OpenJPA 1.1.0
  • EclipseLink 1.0.1
• Revised OSGi manifest headers

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Enjoy!