Spring Cloud (the new umbrella project announced in September) has reached a milestone, its first, and fresh jars are available in the repo.spring.io repository. Spring Cloud is going to follow a "release train" model for releases, a bit like Spring Data, but we haven't got a cool name for this one yet, so it's just 1.0.0.M1. The modules that are part of this release are

• Spring Cloud Config: Centralized external configuration management backed by a git repository. The configuration resources map directly to Spring Environment but could be used by non-Spring applications if desired.

• Spring Cloud Netflix: Integration with various Netflix OSS components (Eureka, Hystrix, Zuul, Archaius, etc.).

• Spring Cloud Bus: An event bus for linking services and service instances together with distributed messaging. Useful for propagating state changes across a cluster (e.g. config change events).

• Spring Cloud Security: A set of primitives for building secure applications and services with minimum fuss.

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On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.0.1!

This release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as some new features:

• HTTPS access and Authentication to Admin Server
• Cluster and Stream views in UI
• Configure a location for custom modules
• Null sink

You can download the zip distribution or install on OSX using homebrew. On RHEL/CentOs you can install using yum.

Feedback is very important, so please get in touch with questions and comments via

• StackOverflow spring-xd tag
• Spring JIRA or GitHub Issues

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.1.1 is available now. As the first maintenance release in the 4.1 line, this release contains a wide range of fixes for regressions and other issues reported against 4.1 GA. A big thank you to all the issue reporters out there!

4.1.1 also comes with a selection of minor enhancements, for example: consistent handling of Java 8's Optional type, a Jackson ObjectMapper builder class with refined defaults, some requested JDBC refinements, as well as specific performance improvements.

-> List of resolved JIRA issues for Spring…

Spring Boot 1.1.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

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I am pleased to announce that Spring for Android 2.0.0.M1 is now available in the Spring milestone repository. Highlights include:

• Generics support through the use of ParameterizedTypeReference
• Support for OkHttp via OkHttpRequestFactory
• RestTemplate API parity with Spring Framework
• Bug fixes and improvements

Minimum Version

This release raises the minimum version from Android 2.1 (API level 7) to Android 2.2 (API level 8). The Google Play Store app is no longer supported on Android 2.1 and that version is not being tracked on the Android developer Dashboards. Additionally, OkHttp is only…

On behalf of the entire Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the general availability of the Spring Data release train iteration called Evans. The release ships 11 modules to help you build sophisticated data access layers on top of relational and non-relational data stores.

The major themes of this iteration were:

• Upgrade Spring baseline to 4.0
• Support for top and first as keywords in derived queries
• Support for MongoDB 2.6 features like text search
• SpEL support for Spring Data JPA (Spring Security integration)
• Redis Sentinel support
• ALPS and excerpt projections for Spring Data REST
• Support for custom implementations in the CDI extension
• Improved multi-store configuration
• Asciidoctor for reference documentation
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I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0.M1 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release builds on Spring Framework 4.1 and provides a number of improvements and new features. Highlights include:

• Support for distributed JTA transactions across multiple XA resources using either an Atomkos or Bitronix embedded transaction manager or a full Java EE Application Server.
• Easier configuration of JNDI bound DataSource and ConnectionFactory beans.
• Improved JMS support, including auto-configuration for the Spring Framework 4.1 @EnableJms annotation.
• Auto-configuration support for spring-cloud.
• Easier SSL configuration for both Tomcat and Jetty.
• Improved DataSource Metrics and Health Indicators.
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We are pleased to announce the latest maintenance release of Spring IO Platform is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Reactor 1.1.4
• Reactor Spring 1.1.3
• Spring AMQP 1.3.6
• Spring Boot 1.1.6
• Spring Data Dijkstra SR4
• Spring Framework 4.0.7
• Spring Integration 4.0.4
• Spring Security 3.2.5
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.3
• Spring Web Flow 2.4.1

The versions of many third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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We are pleased to announce that the Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.0 Milestone 3 has been released. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, download a distribution archive, or see the project home page for more information.

Since the last Milestone 2, some new features and further improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes have been included to this Milestone, with the GA release due around the end of October.

First of all thanks for all who are interested in this Spring Integration Extension, provide feedback, share their thoughts and even contribute.

Here is…