On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.1.0.M1. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone Repository (https://repo.spring.io/milestone/).

This release contains lots of fixes and new features. You can find a complete list in the changelog. The highlights have been included below:

• Support for search for session by username
• Support Customize Cookie Creation. Thanks to everyone who provided PRs and feedback for this feature!
• Add HttpSessionListener support
• Allow override default RedisSerializer
• Added comprehensive Hazelcast and configuration support. Thanks @_mark_a and @tommyludwig!
• Performance improvements
• Allow scoping the session in Redis using redisNamespace. Thanks fstegmann!
• Add ExpiringSession.setLastAccessedTime(long)
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One behalf of the Spring Boot team, and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.3.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements and builds on the latest release of the Spring Framework. For full upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

Here are some of the highlights of v1.3:

Developer Tools

A new spring-boot-devtools module has been added which aims to improve the development-time experience. The…

On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.2.3 is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This third maintenance release in the 4.2 line contains over 60 fixes and improvements.

We strongly recommend an immediate upgrade to 4.2.3 for all 4.x users. This release is the foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.3 GA release coming up very soon.

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On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring XD 1.3 is now available for download. You can also install using brew and rpm.

This release includes some major new functionality for batch jobs. We have introduced the ability to create composed jobs that allows you to create a complex graph of jobs executed based on a new Job DSL. Flo for Spring XD UI has been updated to support the new Job DSL and provide a visual drag and drop canvas for creating composed jobs. Spring XD’s job execution UI also supports execution history of composed…

I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 3.2.9.RELEASE. This release provides bug fixes and minor enhancements. For complete details on the release, refer to the Change Log.

Highlights of the release include:

• SEC-2190 - Fixing integration with the JSP tag libraries when Spring Security is registered in a child ApplicationContext
• SEC-2521 - Removal of synchronized in StandardPasswordEncoder which drastically improves performance
• SEC-3108 - Fix potential race condition in DigestAuthenticationFilter
• SEC-3109 - DelegatingSecurityContextExecutor works with Concurrent/ThreadPoolTaskScheduler
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I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.3.RELEASE. This release provides bug fixes and minor enhancements. For complete details on the release, refer to the Change Log.

Highlights of the release include:

• SEC-3063 - Fixes for Spring Boot 1.3
• SEC-2190 - Fixing integration with the JSP tag libraries when Spring Security is registered in a child ApplicationContext
• SEC-2521 - Removal of synchronized in StandardPasswordEncoder which drastically improves performance
• SEC-3108 - Fix potential race condition in DigestAuthenticationFilter
• SEC-3109 - DelegatingSecurityContextExecutor works with Concurrent/ThreadPoolTaskScheduler
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Spring IO Platform 2.0.0.RC1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. The 2.0 release upgrades the versions of a number of components including Spring Boot 1.3 and Spring Framework 4.2.

Please note that a number of dependencies that were previously part of the Platform have been removed or replaced in this release. Please refer to the documentation for further details.

All being well, 2.0.0.RELEASE will be released in a few weeks time once Spring Boot 1.3.0.RELEASE is available. Please take RC1 for a spin and let us know if you find any problems.

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We are pleased to announce the following release versions are now available. These versions include important bug fixes and users should upgrade as soon as possible. Click the version to see the appropriate JIRA release notes.

4.2.1.RELEASE 4.1.7.RELEASE 4.0.8.RELEASE 3.0.8.RELEASE

Please note that, unless some compelling reason arises, it is anticipated that the 4.1.7 and 4.0.8 releases will be the last in those lines; 4.x users are encouraged to upgrade to 4.2.1, which is the current release for the 4.x line.

We expect to continue to make available further 3.0.x releases to address…

Spring Boot v1.3.0.RC1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release closes almost 140 issues and merges 53 pull-requests! Thanks to everyone that has contributed.

We're not planning on having a long release candidate phase, so please do try RC1 and let us know if you find any problems.

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.

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