Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first milestone release Spring Shell 1.1. Spring Shell is an interactive shell that can be easily extended with commands using a Spring based programming model. This release adds support for testing of commands as well as several bug fixes and general improvements. Many thanks to to those who submitted pull-requests

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We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

I am pleased to announce the availability of the second service release of the Spring Data Arora release train. It includes quite a few significant bug fixes that we have already released in the first milestone for the Babbage release train. To makethem available in an official release, we backported them into this one here. The modules included are:

• Spring Data Commons 1.5.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.3.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.2.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.2.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

The artifacts are also available in Maven central. You find a comprehensive list of the 46 tickets resolved in our JIRA. The next release is going to be a release candidate for the Babbage release train in early August. You can find details for this release in the Spring Data Commons wiki.

If you want to learn more about the Spring Data family of projects, the best event to do is SpringOne 2013 being held in Santa Clara early September. Hope to see you there!

The Spring AMQP project applies core Spring concepts to the development of AMQP-based messaging solutions.

We are pleased to announce that the 1.2.0.RELEASE is now available for Java.

Following the Release Candidate, this GA release includes a minor bug fix and updates the default RabbitMQ client to 3.1.3. See the Release Notes for details of these changes.

Major changes over and above the 1.1.x release are highlighted in the What's New section of the reference manual.

Please see the Project page for more information including links to documentation and downloads.

We are happy to announce a new release candidate 1.0.1.RC1 for the Spring for Apache Hadoop project. This release candidate introduces support for Apache Hadoop 1.1.2, Hortonworks HDP 1.2, Apache Hadoop 2.0.3-alpha as well as support for Pivotal HD 1.0. The support for these versions are in addition to the already supported versions of Apache Hadoop 1.0.4 and Cloudera CDH 3 and CDH 4. This brings us to support for no less than 7 different Hadoop versions.

To make it easier to configure project builds using these varying versions we will be introducing specific flavors of the Maven artifacts…

Dear Spring Community,

we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.3.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.3.0.

Highlights from this release include:

• Eclipse Kepler Release updates (including Mylyn, EGit, m2e, m2e-wtp)
• updated bundled tc Server to 2.9.2 and bundled Spring Roo to 1.2.4
• ready for Spring 4
• support for JavaConfig-driven Spring projects (including navigation support for @Autowired)
• new and unified "New Spring Project" wizard
• additional performance improvements for working with Spring projects
• brand new instant and lightning fast quick search for your workspace
• GGTS now includes grails 2.2.3

We continue to ship distributions on top of the latest Eclipse release (Eclipse Kelper 4.3) as well as Eclipse Juno 3.8. While the 3.8-based version ships with all the components from Eclipse Juno, only the 4.3-based version ships on top of the just released Eclipse Kepler 4.3 version and is therefore the only distribution that comes with all the latest fixes and…

Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to announce the 1.1.0.M3 release of Spring Social, Spring Social Facebook, and Spring Social Twitter. At the same time, I'm also pleased to include Spring Social LinkedIn 1.0.0.RC2 along with these releases.

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

In these four releases, you'll find several improvements and new features, including:

• New ReconnectFilter to automatically handle invalid/expired connections and attempt to reestablish a new connection.
• Support for OAuth 2's 'state' parameter to prevent CSRF attacks.
• Support for non-standard, provider-specific parameters during provider sign-in.
• Several API updates in the API bindings for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
• Initial support for Twitter's streaming API.
• Support for application-only Twitter authorization.

In addition, several bugs were fixed. See the changelog (Core|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn) for details.

To get the software, download the release distribution (Core|Facebook|Twitter|LinkedIn) or change the dependencies in your build file to reference version 1.1.0.M3 (or 1.0.0.RC2 for Spring Social LinkedIn).

These releases represent a step toward a Spring Social 1.1.0 release later this year. We have planned one more milestone release of Spring Social, Spring Social Facebook, and Spring Social Twitter that will include a few more small improvements and features.

We invite you to discuss this release as well as the continuing work toward Spring Social 1.1.0 in the Spring Social Forum and to report any bugs or improvements in the Spring Social issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Data Redis 1.1!

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Highlights include:

• Support for several new Redis 2.6 commands and options
• Support for Redis 2.6 scripting
• Connection pool enhancements

There is also a new GA release, Spring Data Redis 1.0.5!

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Spring Data Redis 1.0.5 is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and minor enhancements. See the Changelog for more information.

For more information about Spring Data Redis please see the home page for a live sample and webinar recording.

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Java Configuration as a stand alone module. The milestone is compatible with Spring 3.2.3.RELEASE+ and Spring Security 3.1.4.RELEASE.

This code has been merged into Spring Security 3.2.0.M2 release and will be maintained within the Spring Security code base going forward. We hope that by making the release available for stable versions of Spring and Spring Security it will encourage you to try it sooner and provide us feedback before the final release.

Stay tuned to the SpringSource blog for an article that walks you through how to use Spring Security Java Configuration. In the mean time, you can find out how to obtain spring-security-javaconfig, documentation, and samples at http://github.com/SpringSource/spring-security-javaconfig…