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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Spring Boot 1.2.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and most importantly updates the managed Spring Framework dependency to version 4.1.8 (which includes an important security fix). Spring Boot itself also includes a security fix that impacts applications using Undertow.

We recommend an immediate upgrade for all Spring Boot users.

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Spring IO Platform 1.1.4.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 Boot 1.2.7.RELEASE
• Spring Data Evans SR4
• Spring Framework 4.1.8.RELEASE
• Spring Integration 4.1.6.RELEASE
• Spring LDAP 2.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Mobile 1.1.5.RELEASE
• Spring Security 3.2.8.RELEASE
• Spring Session 1.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Social Facebook 2.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Social LinkedIn 1.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Social Twitter 1.1.2.RELEASE
• Spring Web Flow 2.4.2.RELEASE
• Spring Web Services 2.2.2.RELEASE
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On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce that the Spring Framework 4.2.2, 4.1.8 and 3.2.15 maintenance releases are available now.

Aside from fixing various minor issues across the framework, these releases are designed to prevent Reflected File Download attacks; check the corresponding CVE report for details. We recommend an immediate upgrade for all Spring Framework 3.x and 4.x users.

Spring Framework 4.2.2 also provides WebSocket support for the recently released servers Undertow 1.3 and GlassFish 4.1.1, as well as fine-tuned CORS and JavaScript support. This release serves as the foundation of the upcoming Spring Boot 1.3…

We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3 RC1 release.

The most important enhancements in this release:

• Update build to use Spring Framework 4.2.2 [SHDP-509]
• Update build to use Spring Integration 4.2.0 [SHDP-520]
• Add FlushTimeoutTrigger to StoreObjectSupport [SHDP-526]
• Replace internal state machine implementation with new "spring-statemachine" project [SHDP-530]

See the release changelog for details.

We continue to provide version specific artifacts with their respective transitive dependencies in the Spring IO milestone repository:

• 2.3.0.RC1 (default - Apache Hadoop stable 2.7.1)
• 2.3.0.RC1-hadoop26 (Apache Hadoop 2.6.0)
• 2.3.0.RC1-phd30 (Pivotal HD 3.0)
• 2.3.0.RC1-phd21 (Pivotal HD 2.1)
• 2.3.0.RC1-cdh5 (Cloudera CDH 5.4)
• 2.3.0.RC1-hdp23 (Hortonworks HDP 2.3)
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We’re pleased to announce a release of Spring Statemachine 1.0.0. I'd like to start by saying thank you for all who contributed in any way to make this happen. Artifacts are available either from Maven Central or from Spring Repository.

What we actually got into this first release:

• Easy to use flat one level state machine for simple use cases.
• Hierarchical state machine structure to ease complex state configuration.
• State machine regions to provide even more complex state configurations.
• Usage of triggers, transitions, guards and actions.
• Type safe configuration adapter.
• Builder pattern for easy instantiation for use outside of Spring Application context
• Recipes for usual use cases
• Distributed state machine based on a Zookeeper
• State machine event listeners.
• Spring IOC integration to associate beans with a state machine.
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On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring XD 1.3

This release includes bug fixes and some enhancements:

• Hadoop distribution version updates to Apache Hadoop 2.7.1 and Hortonworks Data Platform 2.3. Pivotal Hadoop 2.1, 3.0 and Cloudera Hadoop 5.4
• Spark 1.3.1 Support
• Cassandra Sink
• Header Enricher Processor
• Bug fixes to the Flo Designer UI and Admin UI
• Gpfdist sink now supports update operations and full range of control file options
• Update to Spring Integration 4.2 which provides performance improvements when monitoring is enabled.
• Upgrade to Spring Data Gosling Release train
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I'm delighted to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.0.0.RELEASE has been released. It's available from Maven Central and our release repository.

What is Spring REST Docs?

Spring REST Docs helps you to document RESTful services. It combines hand-written documentation written with Asciidoctor and auto-generated snippets produced with Spring MVC Test. This approach frees you from the limitations imposed by tools like Swagger. It helps you to produce documentation that is accurate, concise, and well-structured. This documentation then allows your users to get the information they need with a minimum…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.7.1 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Mars.1 (4.5.1), including a number of fixes for JDT and m2e
• updated to Pivotal tc Server 3.1.2
• various improvements to the Spring Boot YML properties editor
• improvements to the Spring Boot Starter wizard
• new support for Spring Boot Devtools, including ability to attach Java debugger to CF deployed apps.
• the new spring boot dashboard, currently in beta, but definitely the highlight of this release

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 3.7.1 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.7.2 is scheduled to ship in December 2015.

Enjoy!