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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On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce the second release candidate of Spring Framework 4.1 is now available from our milestone repository. This release includes over 70 fixes and improvements.

Spring 4.1 is really coming up soon: please try it out and let us know if you run into any issue. We're looking forward to getting in touch via Twitter, StackOverflow or JIRA.

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. There will…

Spring Security 3.2.5 (change log) and 3.1.7 (change log) have been released and are available in Maven Central. Important highlights of this release are:

• This release contains a fix for CVE-2014-3527 which resolves an issue where a malicious CAS Service can impersonate another CAS Service when using proxy tickets.
• This release updates the transitive dependencies of the cas module to cas-client-core which has a fix for CVE-2014-4172. This issue was not in Spring Security itself, but the library in which it depends on.

A special thanks to Scott Battaglia & the rest of the CAS team for…

We are happy to announce the first release candidate of the Spring Data release train Evans. We ship the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.9 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.7 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.2 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.3 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.2 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.1 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.1 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

We are pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.1.5 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release addresses a number of 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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