On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the
first maintenance release of Spring XD 1.1.

Download Link: 1.1.1.RELEASE: zip and brew.

The 1.1.1 release includes bug fixes and some enhancements. The full list of tickets is available in our JIRA.

Here are some highlights.

• Improved performance and offset management when using Kafka message bus.
• Support for Spark Streaming's reliable receiver.
• Kryo serialization improvements.
• Option to clean up Rabbit queue/topics when deleting the stream.
• Add a Sqoop example

Feedback is very important, so please get in touch with…

Greetings Spring community,

Spring WS has just released version 2.2.1.RELEASE. This is a patch upgrade with no breaking API or behavior changes. I recommend upgrading to ensure you have the latest fixes. For a listing of completed issues see the report below:

Release Notes | Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

The artifacts are staged on maven central, http://repo.spring.io/release, and bintray.

Cheers!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.0.RELEASE which closes over 175+ tickets. You can find the highlights below:

WebSocket Support

Spring Security 4 added WebSocket Support. It is now possible to use Spring Security with Spring's WebSocket support.

Spring Data Integration

Spring Security 4 added Spring Data Integration. It is now possible to refer to Spring Security's user within Spring Data queries using SpEL.

Test Support

Spring Security 4 has added Test Support. It is now much easier to write tests with Spring Security applications.

More Secure by Default

As exploits…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 3.2.7.RELEASE. This release brings a number of bug fixes including a fix for a regression in the Active Directory support.

Project Site | Reference | Guides | Issues

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration Kafka Support 1.1 GA is now available. Use the Release Repository with Maven or Gradle

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-kafka:1.1.1.RELEASE"

or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

Overview

The main reason of such a quick next point release just after 1.0 GA is to address a number of critical fixes for the upcoming Spring XD 1.1.1 and 1.2 releases. In addition, this release provides performance improvements around message generation streaming scenarios, which required an upgrade to Spring Integration 4.1, which is…

Dear Spring community,

It’s my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.1.6 is available now. This is almost exclusively a bugfix release and therefore a strongly recommended upgrade for all current 4.x users. In particular, we recommend an upgrade from the superseded 4.0.x line as well.

Release Notes | Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Spring Framework 4.1.6 is also the first release to be formally compatible with the recently released JDK 8 update 40. Spring 4.1.x supports a wide range of Java runtimes now, from 2010-era JDK 6 variants up until the latest 2015-era JDK…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the availability of the GA version of Spring Data release train Fowler.The release ships almost 400 tickets solved.

The most core theme of the train is advanced support for Java 8: the MongoDB and JPA modules now support Streams as return type for repository methods and we now support non-time-zoned JDK 8 date/time types our of the box and also integrate with the Java 7 back-port of that API.

Spring Data MongoDB ships with compatibility for the 3.0 version of the server and the corresponding driver version. Spring Data Gemfire now supports…

With a very long overdue from a previous milestone release we are pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.0.RC1.

A summary of changes can be seen below:

• We did a lot of housekeeping to put a whole project up-to-date.
• Rerefence documentation is now updated to reflect what we have. Reference Documentation
• We added a new KerberosRestTemplate for use cases where you need to have a programmatic access to kerberized web resources.
• Samples has been re-written from scratch. These samples are bootified meaning user should have relatively few steps to test Kerberized functionality. There are more about samples in our reference documentation but those include working with Windows AD, MIT Kerberos and RestTemplate.
…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.4 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.4.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Luna SR2
• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.1.0
• Spring Boot properties editor (including content-assist, hovers, navigation, and errors/warnings)
• improved launch support for Spring Boot apps
• support for Groovy 2.4

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.6.4 New & Noteworthy.

This is the final release of the GGTS bundle. Please take a look at the New and Noteworthy for further details. STS 3.7.0 is scheduled to ship in late June 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Mars release.

Enjoy!