Spring Cloud 1.0.0.RELEASE is available now in Maven Central (and repo.spring.io). Not too many changes since RC3 but we did find a few bugs, thanks largely to community involvement, so thanks to all who tried it out up to now. Here is a reminder of the goals of Spring Cloud:

Spring Cloud provides tools for developers to quickly build some of the common patterns in distributed systems (e.g. configuration management, service discovery, circuit breakers, intelligent routing, micro-proxy, control bus, one-time tokens, global locks, leadership election, distributed sessions, cluster state…

Spring Boot 1.1.11 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and is recommended for anyone still on the 1.1.x line. We're only planning critical bug fixes for 1.1.x from now on so please consider upgrading to 1.2.2 if possible.

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Spring Boot 1.2.2 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a significant number of fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all users.

We've also managed to sneak support for JMustache into this release, see this application for an example of how to use it.

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I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 3.2.6.RELEASE. This release contains some important fixes (many addressing Java Configuration and Spring Boot issues). You can find a complete list of changes in the changelog.

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It’s my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.1.5 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes 49 fixes and enhancements from 4.1.4 and is a strongly recommended upgrade for all 4.x users.

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Stay tuned for 4.2 RC1, coming up in May!

The Reactor team is happy to announce the release of 2.0.0.RC1, which is now available in the spring.io Maven repository as well as Maven central. Version 2.0 is an #uberupdate from Reactor version 1.1 and contains several new components as well as complete rewrites of important classes like Stream, which now implements the Reactive Streams standard.

Please note that the Maven coordinates for Reactor 2.0 have changed from those for Reactor 1.x. The new coordinates all fall under the group ID io.projectreactor rather than the previous org.projectreactor. A sample dependencies block for a Gradle…

Spring Cloud 1.0.0.RC3 is available now from https://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone-local. This is (hopefully) the last milestone release before 1.0.0. There were some bug fixes since 1.0.0.RC2 and also a few small new features:

• Refactored the Feign support to look a bit more like Spring Data (so @EnableFeignClients instead of @FeignClientScan).
• Support for multipart/form-data in the Zuul proxy
• Support for including and excluding remote services in the automatic route registration in Zuul
• Support for declarative Ribbon retry in Zuul
• Cleaned up of a lot of dependencies. If you use the spring-cloud-starters you should get a nice consistent experience of adding and subtracting features. Gradle users need to use the dependency management plugin for the same experience.
• Added small, bite-sized sample projects…

Six months after the 1.0 GA release, the team is happy to announce the availability of Spring XD 1.1 GA.

Download Links:

• 1.1.0.RELEASE: zip, homebrew, yum.
• 1.0.4.RELEASE: zip.

Please read Sabby Anandan's blog for a general overview of Spring XD. Specific to 1.1, a ton of features have been added. Here are some that will give you the most bang for your big data buck.

• Stream Processing with Reactor, RxJava, Spark Streaming and Python
• Orchestrate Spark and Sqoop Batch Jobs
• Kafka based message bus, source and sink along with new general purpose high level Kafka APIs
• Batching and compression for RabbitMQ
• Easily develop, test, and package custom modules and upload them to the admin server.
• Containers group management when running XD on YARN
• Role based authorization of REST endpoints and LDAP/file based authentication
• Support for Pivotal, Hortonworks, and Cloudera Hadoop distributions.
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Whether you’re at home, office, or in-transit, connectivity is the norm. It’s a part of daily life that we’ve all come to expect and depend on. Connectivity between people and information is all about the movement and analysis of data: data delivers insights, and these insights must increasingly deliver immediate results to users. This level of always-on, always-available connectedness presents numerous challenges. The type of data, formats, and volume is dynamic, as are the data-producing agents.

Spring XD addresses these numerous challenges within a unified platform. Whether through…