Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 M1:

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The Spring for Apache Hadoop features include support for:

• Apache Hadoop configuration
• MapReduce, Streaming Jobs and Tool
• HBase configuration
• Hive server and thrift client
• Pig configuration
• Embedded API for Apache Hadoop FsShell and DistCp
• JSR-223/javax.scripting for HDFS interaction
• Spring Batch tasklets for vanilla Apache Hadoop, Hive, Pig

For a quick introduction to Spring for Apache Hadoop, see this blog entry or the reference documentation.

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce that the first release candidate of Spring Social LinkedIn is now available!

Thanks to community contributions, the Spring Social LinkedIn project now has a complete API binding in addition to connection support through Spring Social's service provider connection framework.

To get Spring Social LinkedIn, download the release distribution or simply add the Maven artifacts to your project.

As we push toward a GA release, we would like to hear what you think of the RC1 release. Give feedback in the forum or, if you have any suggestions or find any bugs, please post them in the issue tracker.

The first maintenance release in the Spring 3.1.x line is now available via Maven Central, the SpringSource repository, or for direct download from our community download page. This release includes many important bugfixes and minor improvements and is a recommended upgrade.

Cheers!

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On the way to Spring IO conference I'd like to announce the availability of Spring Data MongoDB 1.0.1. It's mainly a bug fix release covering a few glitches found in the first major release. We've fixed some issues in entity mapping, query execution and added a converter for UUIDs out of the box.

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The release is available from our Maven repository and from Maven Central as well. To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data MongoDB Page. Looking forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the release of Spring Data JPA 1.1.0 RC1 as well as 1.0.3 GA. The release candidate includes a ton of new features and a variety of bug fixes. Here's a brief list of the most important ones:

• Support for locking
• Support for @IdClass in entities
• Support for LessThanEqual and GreaterThanEquals, True/False keywords in query methods
• Added CDI integration for repositories
• Improved parameter binding for derived queries for null values

The CDI integration was contributed by Dirk Mahler of Buschmais to a large degree. For a full list of changes see the changelog. Quite a few of the bugs fixed were back ported so we definitely recommend to upgrade to 1.0.3 as well as playing with the release candidate to help improving the final release. The 1.0.3 GA release can be obtained from Maven central while the release candidate is available via our milestone repository at http://repo.springsource.org/libs-milestone…

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first release candidate of the Spring Mobile project is now available!

Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. The 1.0.0.RC1 release ships a general facility for user site preference management that can be used independently or in conjunction with the mobile site switcher. See the changelog and reference manual for all the info.

Download the release distribution or pull the artifacts from Maven using the following:

    <repository>
        <id>org.springframework.maven.milestone</id>
        <name>Spring Maven Milestone Repository</name>
        <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
    </repository>
&lt;dependency&gt;
    &lt;groupId&gt;org.springframework.mobile&lt;/groupId&gt;
    &lt;artifactId&gt;spring-mobile-device&lt;/artifactId&gt;
    &lt;version&gt;1.0.0.RC1&lt;/version&gt;
&lt;/dependency&gt;

Get sample apps over at github.com/SpringSource/spring-mobile-samples | git clone git://github.com/SpringSource/spring-mobile-samples.git

This release marks our fifth iteration with early adopters in the community using Spring Mobile in their own applications. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try out 1.0.0.RC1 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring.NET Social 1.0.0 (as well as adapters for the Dropbox API and the Twitter API) is now available (and LinkedIn API support is in progress!).

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that helps you connect your applications with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Twitter, Facebook, Dropbox, and more! It offers an extensible service provider framework (including support for OAuth1 and OAuth2) that greatly simplifies the process of connecting local user accounts to hosted provider accounts.

Spring.NET Social supports the following runtime environments:

• .NET 2.0
• .NET Client Profile 3.5 and 4.0
• Silverlight 4.0 and 5.0
• Windows Phone 7.0 and 7.1

Spring.NET Social Home Page
Spring.NET Social Twitter API Support Home Page
Spring.NET Social Dropbox API Support Home Page
Spring.NET Social LinkedIn API Support (pre-release) Home Page

Want to contribute? There's a rich universe of Social platforms for which Spring.NET Social support can be easily extended and we're actively looking for community contributors interested in adding projects to support Facebook, TripIt, GitHub, and many more!

These projects are hosted at GitHub:

• Spring.NET Social
• Spring.NET Social Twitter API Support
• Spring.NET Social Dropbox API Support
• Spring.NET Social LinkedIn API Support

As always, we encourage feedback from the community on this and all aspects of Spring.NET!

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that we just released the second milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

Highlights from this milestone towards 2.9.0:

• General - update to tc Server 2.6.3
• Spring - update to Spring Roo 1.2.0
• Spring - support for new Spring Roo packaging options
• Grails - Grails 2.0.0 is now the default version installed from the extensions page
• Groovy - Groovy 1.8 is now the default version installed from the extensions page
• Gradle - initial Gradle editing support (more to follow)

More details can be found in the New and Noteworthy for 2.9.0.M2 document. Detailed installation instructions are also available, please look at the installation from the milestone update sites.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page, check "Other Downloads".

The release of 2.9.0 is planned for early March 2012 and will be based on Eclipse Indigo 3.7 SR2.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Social 1.0.2 and Spring Social Twitter 1.0.2!

Spring Social is an extension of the Spring Framework that enables you to connect your Java applications to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter.

These are primarily bug fix releases, but there are also a few small enhancements. Refer to the changelogs (Core | Twitter) for more details.

We're also excited to announce that Spring Social LinkedIn 1.0.0.M5 is now available and includes a more complete API binding. We are looking forward to your feedback as we bring Spring Social LinkedIn closer to a 1.0.0 GA release. (Thanks again to Robert Drysdale for contributing the Groups API binding, completing Spring Social's LinkedIn API binding!)

To get the software, download the release distribution (Core | Twitter) or simply add the maven artifacts to your project. To see it live, try out the quickstart and fire up the samples. Supplement as you go with information from the reference manual.

Spring Social requires Spring Framework 3.0.5 or > to run. We recommend Spring 3.1 for new applications to take advantage of the latest advances in the core framework. See the reference manual for a full description of dependencies.