We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 2.1 Release Candidate 1 is now available. Release Notes | Documentation | Download

If you would like to grab the artifacts via Maven, please use the following repository and dependency configuration (and replace 'core' with any other modules you want to use, e.g. 'amqp', 'gemfire', 'http'):

<repository>     <id>repository.springframework.maven.milestone</id>     <name>Spring Framework Maven Milestone Repository</name>     <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone&lt;/url> </repository>

<dependency>     <groupId>org.springframework.integration</groupId>     <artifactId>spring-integration-core</artifactId>     <version>2.1.0.RC1</version> </dependency>

Feel free to join us on the Forum. We especially welcome feedback from the community at this important phase as we make the final strides toward 2.1 GA.

Cheers! The Spring Integration Team