We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.0.M2 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release!

What’s new?

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Simplify remote partitioning
• Add a new JSON item writer
• Add support for validating items with the Bean Validation API

Simplify remote partitioning

In the 4.1.0.M1 release, we created new APIs to simplify the configuration of a remote chunking step. In this milestone, we continued this effort to simplify remote partitioning through two new builders: RemotePartitioningMasterStepBuilder and RemotePartitioningWorkerStepBuilder…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.1.0.M1 is now available on Github and the Pivotal download repository. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release!

What's new?

Here are the highlights of this release:

• Simplify testing
• Simplify remote chunking
• Add a new JSON item reader

Simplify Testing

Spring Batch provides some nice utility classes (such as the JobLauncherTestUtils and JobRepositoryTestUtils) and test execution listeners (StepScopeTestExecutionListener and JobScopeTestExecutionListener) to test batch components. However, in order to use these utilities, you…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Batch 3.0.9.RELEASE and 4.0.1.RELEASE via Maven Central, Github, and the Pivotal download repository.

These two maintenance releases address a number of bug fixes, enhancements and documentation updates. For a complete list of changes, please refer to the change logs for 3.0.9 and 4.0.1. Many thanks to all of those who submitted pull requests that went into these releases.

Please note that the next patch version, 3.0.10.RELEASE, will be the last maintenance release of the 3.x line. We strongly recommend users to migrate to the latest and…