We are pleased to announce the availability of Spring Integration 4.1.1, 4.0.6, and Spring AMQP 1.4.1. In general, these are minor releases with a small number of bug fixes, but Spring Integration 4.1.1 adds support for decoding RFC 5424 syslog messages and Spring AMQP 1.4.1 adds support for the new Direct reply-to feature in RabbitMQ 3.4.

Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0.1, with a correction with the recipient list router is also available now.

For complete details of the release contents, see the corresponding release notes.

Spring Integration 4.1.1. Release Notes Spring Integration 4.0.6. Release Notes Spring AMQP 1.4.…

We are pleased to announce that RC1 of Spring IO Platform 1.1 is now available from repo.spring.io. Please try out the release candidate and let us know if you encounter any problems.

New projects in 1.1

The following projects are new to the Platform in 1.1:

• Spring Integration Flow 1.0
• Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0
• Spring Integration Splunk 1.1

Projects upgraded in 1.1

Several projects have new minor versions in 1.1:

• Spring Boot 1.2
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.1
• Spring Data JPA 1.7
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6
• Spring Data Neo4J 3.2
• Spring Data Redis 1.4
• Spring Data REST 2.2
• Spring Data Solr 1.3
• Spring Framework 4.1
• Spring Integration 4.1
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Spring Boot 1.1.10 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and enhancements and is recommended for anyone that doesn't yet want to upgrade to the new 1.2.0 release.

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I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements over 1.1 and is a recommended upgrade for all users. For upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

Here are some of the highlights of this release:

Servlet 3.1

Spring Boot now uses Servlet 3.1 when running with an embedded servlet container. Tomcat 8, Jetty 9 and Undertow 1.1 are all supported options. In addition, WebSocket support has been improved and is now…

We are please to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.0.RC1. This release resolved 40 tickets. You can find a highlight of the changes below.

• Updated Defaults - As security evolves, so does Spring Security. We took this opportunity to ensure that the defaults were more secure. For example, the XML Namespace support now enables CSRF protection by default.
• Polish WebSocket Security - We received very valuable feedback from the community which allowed us to polish the WebSocket security. We also added XML Namespace configuration support for WebSocket security. Details can be found on the update blog Preview Spring Security WebSocket Support
• Minimum Dependency Versions - The minimum dependency…

I am pleased to announce that Spring for Android 2.0.0.M2 is now available in the Spring milestone repository. Highlights include:

• Support for the Android port of HttpClient 4.3 via HttpComponentsClientHttpRequestFactory
• Support for HttpClient 4.0 included with Android is now deprecated but will remain available through HttpComponentsAndroidClientHttpRequestFactory.
• HTTP PATCH support in RestTemplate
• The type conversion package from Spring Core is now available in Spring for Android Core.
• Many improvements and fixes from Spring 3.2 are now merged into Spring for Android to bring baseline compatibility to Spring 3.2, while certain RestTemplate features from Spring 4.1 have been included to support the new HttpClient.
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On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Spring Framework 4.1.3.

Spring Framework 4.1.3 is our third maintenance release in the 4.1.x line and comes with over 50 fixes and improvements. It was initially scheduled for late December but we decided to release it early to incorporate user-suggested and user-contributed improvements right in time for the scheduled Spring Boot 1.2 release this week.

We are still planning on another release later this month (4.1.4) at which point 4.1.x will turn into a maintenance branch, with active development on 4.2 happening on…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.3 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.3.

Highlights from this release include:

• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.0.2 (incl. Spring Insight on Java8)
• Cloud Foundry for Eclipse now pre-installed
• Many new Spring Integration extensions supported in the graphical Spring Integration editor
• Gradle tooling has better handling for auto mapping of jar dependencies to project dependencies

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

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.6.3 New & Noteworthy.

STS/GGTS 3.6.4 is scheduled to ship in March 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Luna SR2 release.

Enjoy!

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I am happy to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data Release train Fowler.

The release ships 170 tickets fixed, 119 of them unique to the Fowler release train. Find a curated changelog here. The highlights of the release include:

• Upgrades to Spring 4.0.8 and Querydsl 3.6.0.
• Performance improvements in converter subsystem by using byte-code generation.
• Out-of-the-box support for JSR-310 date/time types (MongoDB).
• Various (performance) improvements in the usage of SpEL (JPA).
• Support for $bit, $mul and $position operators (MongoDB).
• Improved proxy-id detection for JPA and REST.
• Introdcution of QueryDslPredicateExceutor.findAll(OrderSpecifier<?>... orders) (Querydsl).
• CDI repository extension for Cassandra module.
• Upgrade to Gemfire 8 (Gemfire).
• Version property based ETag generation (REST).
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