On behalf of the team, I am pleased to announce several releases in the Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Data Flow family of projects.

Spring Cloud Stream 1.0 M3 introduces the following features

• Many improvements in middleware binding. In particular for supporting multiple binders, so you can now have RabbitMQ as an input and Kafka be the output, for example.
• Partitioning improvements

Spring Cloud Stream Modules 1.0 M2 adds many new modules with updated documentation.

• Sources: File, Load Generator, sftp, and tcp
• Processors: httpclient, PMML, and Splitter
• Sinks: Cassandra, Field Value Counter, file, ftp, gemfire, HDFS Dataset, JDBC, tcp, throughput, and websocket
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We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3.0 GA release.

Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3 adds the following new features and improvements:

• Added support for Hive 1.x and updated HiveTemplate to work with HiveServer2
• New batch tasklet for Apache Spark, see docs for a usage example
• Added FlushTimeoutTrigger to StoreObjectSupport to allow to flush to disk during writes
• Replaced internal state machine implementation with new "spring-statemachine" project
• Added jobHistoryAddress to SpringHadoopProperties for Boot configuration
• Update build to use Spring Framework 4.2.4, Spring Batch 3.0.6.RELEASE, Spring Boot 1.3.1.RELEASE and Spring Integration 4.2.4.RELEASE.
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On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the availability of the second service release of the Spring Data Gosling release train. The release ships 45 issues fixed and contains an important bugfix for an issue in Spring Data JPA's method metadata detection. Thus it's a recommended upgrade for all Gosling users and also users of previous release trains.

The release is be included in the just released Spring Boot 1.3.1 release which should make the upgrade a non-issue. If you're using the BOM, make sure you upgrade to Gosling-SR2A (note the trailing A). A tiny glitch during the…

Spring IO Platform 1.1.5.RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

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

• Spring Batch 3.0.6.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.2.8.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.1.9.RELEASE
• Spring Integration 4.1.8.RELEASE
• Spring Security 3.2.9.RELEASE
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.8.RELEASE
• Spring Social 1.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Social Facebook 2.0.3.RELEASE
• Spring Web Services 2.2.3.RELEASE

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

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Spring Boot 1.2.8 and 1.3.1 have been released and are available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

If you haven't tried Spring Boot 1.3 yet, now may be the time to do so: 1.3.1 is a maintenance release that brings 126 fixes and improvements, almost half of those being pull requests. Thanks again to our amazing contributors!

Spring Boot 1.2.8 is a maintenance release with a selection of fixes and improvements.

As we have fixed a security vulnerability, we highly recommend an immediate upgrade for all Spring Boot users.

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Spring IO Platform 2.0.1.RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

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

• Reactor 2.0.7.RELEASE
• Spring Batch 3.0.6.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.3.1.RELEASE
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.1.RELEASE
• Spring Framework 4.2.4.RELEASE
• Spring Data Gosling SR2A
• Spring Integration 4.2.4.RELEASE
• Spring Integration Kafka 1.2.1.RELEASE
• Spring REST Docs 1.0.1.RELEASE
• Spring Social 1.1.4.RELEASE
• Spring Social Facebook 2.0.3.RELEASE

The versions of many third…

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.