On behalf of module lead Michael Nitschinger, I am pleased to announce the availability of milestone two of the Spring Data module for Couchbase.

This new release brings both feature enhancements and bugfixes, taking the library full steam to a release candidate soon. Highlights of this release are custom @View annotations on repository finder methods and better marshaling support for dates, enums and class types. Also, the underlying Couchbase Java Client has been updated to the latest 1.2.2 versions, bringing better rebalance stability and performance improvements. This M2 release is available from the Spring IO milestone repository…

We are happy to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0.2 GA and 2.0 M2 milestone releases.

Both of these releases provide bug fixes, upgraded Spring project versions and support for the new Pivotal HD 1.1 release. The 1.0.2 release adds support for the new Hadoop 2.2 stable release. The 2.0.0.M2 release provides support for CDH4 YARN clusters and an improved implementation for the HdfsResourceLoader (this implementation will be back-ported to the next 1.0.3 GA release).

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

The Spring XD team is pleased to announce that Spring XD 1.0.0 Milestone 4 is now available for download.

Spring XD makes it easy to solve common big data problems such as data ingestion and export, real-time analytics, and batch workflow orchestration. This release includes several notable new features:

• Batch Processing UI
• Improved Type Conversion
• Composite Modules
• Improved DSL parsing and Tap functionality (Note: breaking syntax change)
• New sources: Reactor based syslog, tcp-client
• Expression based processors can invoke a pre-registered JSON Path function.
• Pre-defined Batch jobs for HDFS to JDBC, HDFS to MongoDB, Files to HDFS, and Files to JDBC
• New commands for listing available modules and their definition.
• Deployment Scripts for EC2 in new project.
• Support for Pivotal HD 1.1
• Shell access to HDFS via WebHDFS protocol
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I'm happy to announce that Reactor, a powerful foundational library for building reactive, fast data applications on the JVM has reached GA!

What is Reactor and why should I care?

Reactor provides the necessary abstractions to build high-throughput, low-latency--what we now call "fast data"--applications that absolutely must work with thousands, tens of thousands, or even millions of concurrent requests per second.

You should care about Reactor because modern applications with non-human consumers--like mobile phones and the apps that run on them--generate more data than traditional thread-per…

Spring Boot 0.5.0.M6 has been released and is now available in the Spring repo. Instructions for installing and using are on the project website or in github. There are loads of updates in this release, including:

• Auto-configuration reports to let you know what Spring Boot is doing on your behalf
• Remote shell support via CRaSH
• Support for JDK 8
• A new Aether based @Grab engine
• Lots of bug fixes

Here is a quick example that demonstrates the remote shell and auto-configuration report:

@Grab("spring-boot-starter-shell-remote") 
@Controller 
class MyRemote {
}

When you run this application using spring run example.groovy you should see…

The fifth maintenance release in the Spring Framework 3.2.x line is now available via Maven Central or the SpringSource repository. This release includes nearly 50 bug fixes and improvements and we recommend that all users upgrade.

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Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of our first Spring Framework 4.0 release candidate. This release completes our 4.0 feature set with several new features since M3:

• full compatibility with recent OpenJDK 8 Developer Preview builds
• first-class support for Groovy-based bean definitions (as known from Grails)
• autowiring based on generic types (e.g. MyRepository<Customer>)
• using Objenesis to create CGLIB proxy instances (allowing for constructor injection)
• the introduction of a ScriptEvaluator mechanism (including JSR-223 support)
• time zone resolution in Spring MVC (connected to JSR-310 and Joda-Time)
• finer-grained configuration options for Spring MVC's @ControllerAdvice
• the introduction of MvcUriComponentsBuilder (inspired by Spring HATEOAS)
• …

Spring Security 3.2.0.RC2 is now available from the SpringSource repository at http://repo.springsource.org. See here for a quick tutorial on resolving these artifacts via Maven.

What's new?

The release resolves 80+ issues. Most of the issues for this release were fixing bug, adding documentation, and converting our documentation to Asciidoctor.

Refer to the recently added What's new in Spring Security 3.2 to find all the highlights of this release. You will notice there are some nice features that have been added that I have not blogged about. Be sure to follow the links to see and links to…

I'm pleased to announce that Spring LDAP 2.0.0.M1 is now available from the SpringSource repository at http://repo.springsource.org. See here for a quick tutorial on resolving these artifacts via Maven.

What's New?

The release adds lots of new functionality! Some of the highlights can be found below:

• Spring Data Repository and QueryDSL support is now included in Spring LDAP.
• Fluent LDAP query support has been added.
• A custom XML namespace is now provided to simplify configuration of Spring LDAP.
• Spring LDAP core has been updated with Java 5 features such as generics and varargs.
• The ODM (Object-Directory Mapping) functionality has been moved to core and there are new methods in LdapOperations/LdapTemplate that uses this automatic translation to/from ODM-annotated classes.
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