Spring Boot 1.0.0.RC5 has been released and is available in the repo.spring.io repository. This is mainly a bug fix release, although a couple of new features have been added:

• A new @IntegrationTest annotation has been added to help when writing integration tests for Spring Boot.
• The CRaSH shell now exposes an endpoint command that can be used to obtain actuator information.

We now also have a fairly comprehensive reference manual.

This is the last planned release candidate, so please give it a try and report any bugs. We plan to release GA very soon.

I'm pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Test MVC HtmlUnit.

The project’s aim is to provide integration between Spring MVC Test and HtmlUnit. This simplifies performing end to end testing when using HTML based views.

Stay tuned to the Spring Blog for a mini blog series introducing this exciting new library. If you can't wait to get your feet wet, refer to the project's Getting Started section on GitHub.

On behalf of Michael Nitschinger, I'm happy to announce the 1.0 GA release of the Couchbase Spring Data module.

Between the last release candidate and the final release, several bugs have been fixed and new features have been added. Notable additions are the support for custom converters, JSR-303 Validation support and built-in support for temporal objects like Dates, Calendars and similar JodaTime variants.

The release artifacts are available via Maven Central. You can find the reference documentation, JavaDoc and a change log at the usual expected places.

From now on, the Couchbase module will be part of the official Spring Data release trains, starting with Dijkstra. Now that the first GA release is out of the door, we will put…

I am happy to announce the first service release of the Spring Data release train named Codd. The full list of participating modules looks as follows:

• Spring Data Build 1.3.1 - Changelog
• Spring Data Commons 1.7.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.5.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.4.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.0.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.0.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
…

Spring Security 3.2.2 (change log) and 3.1.6 (change log) have been released and are available in Maven Central.

Among the highlights, these two releases resolve CVE-2014-0097 which allows a malicious user to impersonate a user with an empty password if ALL of the following hold true:

• The application is using ActiveDirectoryLdapAuthenticator
• The directory allows anonymous binds (not recommended)

NOTE: This does NOT impact users of LdapAuthenticationProvider or <ldap-authentication-provider>

For full details on the releases, please refer to the previously mentioned change logs.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm happy to announce the availability of Spring Social 1.1.0.RC1 as well as Spring Social Facebook 1.1.0.RC1, and Spring Social Twitter 1.1.0.RC1. These release candidates are the first step toward a GA release coming soon. They include several improvements, bug fixes, and a few new features, including:

• New Thymeleaf 3 and 4 dialects to match Spring Social's JSP tag library.
• A generic connection factory for quick configuration of an API for which there is no formal connection factory support. Provides a RestOperations as the API binding.
• Optimized use of RestTemplate in API bindings when using Spring 3.2+.
• A new streamlined and more flexible Java configuration option.
• SecurityConfigurerAdapter for enabling provider-based authentication with Spring Security's Java configuration.
• A pluggable session-abstraction.
• Support for Facebook's built-in OpenGraph actions in the API binding.
• …

I am happy to announce the availability of the last service release of the Spring Data Babbage release train. The release includes the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.6.5 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data JPA 1.4.5 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.3.5 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.3.5 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts

The release bundles a bunch of important enhancements and bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade. The release forms the last service release of the Babbage release train. Users are recommended to have a look at the latest releases of Spring Data Codd…

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Spring AMQP (for Java) 1.3.0.RC1 release candidate. It is expected to be the final candidate before GA.

The release includes some significant new features, including:

• Listener Container

• The listener container concurrency can be changed without first stopping the container and the listeners will be adjusted accordingly

• The listener container can dynamically adjust the concurrent consumers, based on workload

• The listener container now supports consumer priority (with RabbitMQ 3.2.x or greater)

• The listener container now supports the configuration of an exclusive consumer

• Rabbit Template

• The RabbitTemplate now has several convenient receiveAndReply methods

• The RabbitTemplate can now be configured with a RetryTemplate, enabling clients to not have to deal directly with broker connectivity issues.

  …

Spring Data Redis 1.2.0 has been released and is now available from Maven Central. This release sums up the fixes and enhancements from 1.1.1 and RC1 plus an updated documentation. The release has been tested against Redis 2.4.6, 2.6.17, 2.8.6 as well as the recent 3.0-beta1 using the latest Spring framework 3.2 and 4.0 versions.

Reference Documentation | Changes | JavaDoc

Up next SD Redis will join the Spring Data release train Dijkstra. We are looking forward to your feedback on Twitter or in the issue tracker.

For more information about Spring Data Redis please see the home page.