We’re pleased to announce a first release candicate of Spring Statemachine 1.0.0.RC1.

Focus of this release is to get core framework more stable and finally add jepsen tests for a distributed state machine. We also added a first version of a testing support. Resolved github tickets can be found from RC1 issues. We're relatively close to issue a release version, meaning if nothing major pop-up, next release will be a 1.0.0.RELEASE. If something urgent turns up we will do 1.0.0.RC2 prior to a release.

Now that we're here, let's crack it and see what new features we have in this release.

Beyond…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2.1 is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This first maintenance release in the 4.2 line contains a wide range of fixes for regressions and other issues reported against 4.2 GA.

4.2.1 also contains minor enhancements: refinement of our Jackson support (see Sébastien's updated blog post), meta-annotation processing improvements (@AliasFor), third-party dependencies alignment (including Hibernate 5.0 GA).

We strongly recommend an immediate upgrade to 4.2.1 for all 4.x users. The Spring Framework team is now working towards…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the general availability of the Spring Data release train Gosling. Over the last 6 months we've fixed 344 tickets in total, 56 of that after the latest release candidate.

• Upgraded Spring baseline to 4.1.
• Easier implementability of custom repository code (per repo, see the reference documentation) .
• Improved compatibility with Hibernate 5 (JPA module).
• SpEl support for @Query methods in MongoDB (see this example).
• Support to create Querydsl Predicates from web requests (see the reference documentation).
• A new Spring Data KeyValue module for Map-backed repositories using SpEL as query language.
• Improved POST forms for the HAL browser in Spring Data REST.
• Support for internationalization of enum values and link titles in Spring Data REST.
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We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3 M2 milestone release.

The most important enhancements in this release:

• New batch tasklets: Support for running a simple Spark app [SHDP-397] and for running a simple Sqoop2 Job [SHDP-506]
• Better boot support: Add jobHistoryAddress to SpringHadoopProperties for Boot configuration [SHDP-517]
• YARN: Support dots in yarn container group names [SHDP-515]

See the release changelog for details.

The new support for running a Spark job on YARN via a Spring Batch tasklet opens possibilities for integrating Spark tasks in a larger Spring Batch flow We will show a simple example of this at the upcoming SpringOne 2GX conference during our "Hadoop Workflows and Distributed YARN Apps using Spring technologies"…

We've just released Spring Boot v1.3.0.M4 as we found an annoying regression with CloudFoundry deployment. This release includes additional fixes and improvements.

For a complete list of changes, see the Spring Boot 1.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

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#SpringOne 2GX 2015 is around the corner! Book your place at SpringOne2GX in Washington, DC soon. It's simply the best opportunity to find out first hand all that's going on and to provide direct feedback.

We are pleased to announce that the final release candidate for Spring Integration 4.2 (4.2.0.RC1) is now available in the spring milestone repository.

Features of this release include:

Security Context Propagation

The security context can now be propagated across ExecutorChannel and QueueChannels. The framework takes care of clearing the inherited security context when the downstream flow completes.

STOMP Client Channel Adapters

STOMP client-side channel adapters based on the support in Spring Framework 4.2 are now available (the initial work announced in milestone 1 is now complete).

Metrics

We are pleased to announce that the release candidate for the 1.5 release (1.5.0.RC1) is now available.

New features and improvements in this release include:

Enhanced HA Queue Support

The high availability queue support has been enhanced in that you can configure a listener container to connect to the broker that is currently the master for the container's queue. If the connection is lost, the new master is determined and a connection to that broker is established.

RabbitTemplate Blocking Receive

It is now possible to use the the RabbitTemplate to receive ad-hoc messages. Previously, only a non-blocking receive()…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot v1.3.0.M3 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release includes 90 fixes and improvements and merges 38 pull-requests! Thanks again to everyone that has contributed.

Highlights of the new release include:

• HTTP session persistence (enabled automatically with Devtools)
• Configuration improvements for JMS and AMQP endpoints
• Various Logback and log4j 2 improvements
• Auto-configuration classes can now be excluded via configuration
• Auto-configuration for embedded MongoDB
• Auto-configuration for H2 web console

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.5.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. This is the 5th maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of minor enhancements as well as bringing Spring Batch fully compatible with Spring Framework 4.2. Many thanks to all of those who submitted the many pull requests that went into this release.

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We look forward to your feedback in Jira, StackOverflow, or to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella.

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