Dear Spring Community,

In time for SpringOne2GX 2012, I am pleased to announce the first release candidate, 1.0 RC1 for Spring for Apache Hadoop:

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RC1 provides important bug fixes and enhancements and introduces new features such as:

• Template, exception translation and declarative runner for Pig and Hive scripts
• Enhanced Map/Reduce jar and tool execution to prevent class-loading leaks
• Refined JVM scripting, M/R, Cascading runners to provide pre/post actions

For more information on Spring for Apache Hadoop, see the project home page for reference documentation and the sample applications. Moreover, you are invited to the upcoming webinar, "Introducing Spring for Apache Hadoop" scheduled for November 8th.

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.