We are pleased to announce the latest maintenance release of Spring IO Platform is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Reactor 1.1.4
• Reactor Spring 1.1.3
• Spring AMQP 1.3.6
• Spring Boot 1.1.6
• Spring Data Dijkstra SR4
• Spring Framework 4.0.7
• Spring Integration 4.0.4
• Spring Security 3.2.5
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.3
• Spring Web Flow 2.4.1

The versions of many third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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We are pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring AMQP 1.4 is now available.

##Key Features

• Annotation-based message listeners (@RabbitListener), enabled with either @EnableRabbit or <rabbit:annotation-driven /> (see below for an example).
• RabbitMessagingTemplate allowing interaction with RabbitMQ using spring-messaging Message objects.
• A new factory bean to ease the configuration of SSL with the RabbitConnectionFactory
• Log4j Appender now supports configuration of message persistence.

Here is a simple example for a POJO service using the new annotations:

public static class…

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 4.1 Milestone 1 has been released. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, download a distribution archive, or see the project home page for links to the updated documentation, and Maven/Gradle configuration details.

The release includes some new features and further improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes, with the GA release due around the end of October.

Here is a summary of major changes:

Spring Framework 4.1

Spring Integration takes advantage of a number of new features in Spring…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.1.6 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release closes almost 50 reported issues and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

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Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that after an intense release candidate phase, the Spring Framework 4.1 GA release is now available!

Our 4.1 generation delivers major new features along several themes:

• Annotated JMS listener methods
• Comprehensive support for JCache (JSR-107) annotations
• Flexible resolution and transformation of static web resources
• MVC views: declarative resolution, Groovy markup templates, Jackson's JsonView
• WebSocket refinements: WebSocket scope, SockJS client support, WebSocket stats
• Performance: SpEL compiler mode, concurrency fine-tuning across the container
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Spring Security OAuth 2.0.3 is available now in all the usual Maven repositories. It's a bug fix release, nothing major, so upgrading from 2.0.x should be painless (and is recommended). Some people were having issues getting JWT tokens to work properly, and those should be fixed. The only noteworthy functional change is that Resource Servers (if configured with @Configuration) will now check the validity of the client and scopes before allowing access to protected resources. This means that client privileges can be revoked quickly, but may also lead to a performance penalty (so caching the …

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.1 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.1.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to tc Server 3.0.0
• performance improvements for building Spring projects
• AspectJ/AJDT now support annotation processors

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

NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 release as 64bit and 32bit based zip files only. There will be no native installers for STS/GGTS anymore.

With the 3.6.0 release we shifted towards a slightly changed release schedule, shipping minor releases more frequently. Therefore 3.6.2 is scheduled to ship…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I am pleased to announce the availability of the fourth service release of the Dijkstra release train. It includes 36 fixes overall for the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.8.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.6.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.5.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.1.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.2.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.1.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.0.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.0.M2 available in the Spring Milestone repository.

[callout title=SpringOne 2GX 2014 is around the corner]Book your place at SpringOne in Dallas, TX for Sept 8-11 soon. It's simply the best opportunity to find out first hand all that's going on and to provide direct feedback. From 0 to Spring Security 4.0 session will contain detailed information on how to get started with Spring Security and provide a deep dive into the new features found in Spring Security 4. Of course there plenty of other exciting Spring related talks![/callout]

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