Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring ninja Stephane Nicoll just announced Spring Boot 1.3.0.M3, chock full of great features including HTTP session persistence, JMS and AMQP improvements, logging improvements, and auto-configurations for the H2 Database console and embedded MongoDB.
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.5
• Check out this cool look at using Spring Boot to process Twitter feeds with Neo4j
• check out this interesting Chinese-language post on using .yml with Spring Boot
• Disid corporation has just announced a maintenance release for Spring Roo
• Just saw this post. Our very own Cornelia Davis, director of platform engineering, was recognized as one of the top 10 women in cloud by CloudNOW! As she has for years now, she'll be at SpringOne2GX..
• the All & Sundry blog has a cool post looking at how to use Netflix's Archaius with Spring Cloud
• Speaking of configuration management, check out this post on using configuration servers, including the Spring Cloud Config Server, on Cloud Foundry
• i dig this post on using straight Java configuration to configure Spring Security roles in a Spring MVC web application.
• our very own Michael Cote asked me to record a podcast or two with him. The first installment is now available.