Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2.4 and 4.1.9 are available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central!

4.2.4 addresses a few regressions in the 4.2.x line and includes many fixes and enhancements, with no immediate issues remaining. 4.2.4 is a recommended upgrade for all 4.x users now. Please note that the 4.2.x line moves into maintenance mode at this point, with a low-volume 4.2.5 maintenance release scheduled for mid February.

4.1.9 is designed as the last release in the 4.1.x line, backporting applicable bug fixes as well as selected recent enhancements from 4.2.3 / 4.2.4. Note that this is the ultimate 4.1.x release: Your next upgrade step beyond 4.1.9 is the above-mentioned 4.2.5 in February, even for compatibility issues and…

After 4.2.4 and 4.1.9 earlier today, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 3.2.16 is now available.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.6.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. This is the 6th maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of minor bug fixes and enhancements. 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.

I'm delighted to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.0.1.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository.

This maintenance release includes a number of changes, including improved support for documenting attributes in XML payloads. An immediate upgrade is recommended for all Spring REST Docs users.

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Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Social Facebook 2.0.3.RELEASE. This is a maintenance release that addresses a few bugs, the most significant of which was a breaking change introduced recently in Facebook's Graph API which prevented connections and sign-in from working with Spring Social Facebook. In addition, the API binding has been adjusted to target Graph API v2.5.

View the changelog for more details.

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You might have heard the news already: JDK 9 is going to be delayed by half a year, now aiming for a March 2017 release instead of its original September 2016 target.

Since Spring 5 is designed to track JDK 9 very closely, we decided to revisit our own roadmap as well: We are nevertheless going to start our release candidate phase in Q4 2016 but we won't go GA before March 2017 either. That said, we really mean it: The goal is for Spring Framework 5.0 to go GA right after JDK 9's GA date then.

The opportunity for you to start working with Spring 5 features will begin much sooner anyway, with…

I am pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 0.5.4.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, JCenter, and the Gradle Plugin Portal.

This maintenance release includes a significant improvement in the performance of applying Maven-style exclusions to your Gradle builds. The change provides a 20x speed up, reducing the overhead, even with very complex dependency graphs, to 50ms or less.

For more information about how the plugin can improve your Gradle builds, please read the introductory blog post.

I’m pleased to announce the availability of Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.1. This is a maintenance release with a few new features and a few bug fixes.

Here are the highlights:

Heroku Connector

Relational Databases

• The Heroku cloud connector now recognizes the DATABASE_URL environment variable when detecting PostgreSQL database.

Redis

• Heroku Redis is now supported.

Spring Connector

Relational Databases

• When creating a DataSource, Spring Cloud Connectors will look for a pooling DataSource implementation on the classpath and choose one based on a default priority. The priority of detection has been changed to more closely match the order used in Spring Boot.
• Applications can customize the priority order of pooled DataSource implementations using either Java configuration or XML configuration.
• DataSourceConfig will now accept a map of key/value pairs to allow setting arbitrary properties of the created DataSource. This allows overriding of the default JDBC driver class name and validation query set up by Connectors, in addition to other properties of the DataSource…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.7.2 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

STS 3.7.2 focuses on fixing existing issues and updating STS to work with the latest updates on Cloud Foundry, Spring, and the various Spring projects.

The list of fixed issues include:

• Spring Boot Dashboard now works with the new Diego runtime on Cloud Foundry
• Spring Boot 1.3.0 compatibility (due to updated spring components inside)
• quick text search can now search for escaped * and ? characters
• preliminary support for Eclipse Buildship (the new Gradle integration for Eclipse from Gradleware)

To download the distributions, please go visit:

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

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.7.2 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.7.3 is scheduled to ship in early March 2016.

Enjoy!