Dear Spring community,
 
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Framework 2.5.2 has been released. Download | Documentation
 
This is the second update release in the Spring 2.5 series. It fixes all issues reported since 2.5.1 and introduces various enhancements throughout the framework:

• Restored full Spring 2.0 compatibility for specific extension points
• Extended SQL error code mappings for MS SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle
• Revised JDBC BeanPropertyRowMapper with refined value extraction logic
• Support for the GlassFish/JBoss JCA WorkManager as TaskExecutor backend
• Support for Eclipse Persistence Services 1.0 M4 (the EclipseLink JPA provider)
• Compatibility with the WebSphere JPA provider (derived from OpenJPA)
• @RequestMapping supports "!myParam" expressions for non-presence of a parameter
• @RequestMapping's "params" attribute supported at the type level as well
• Revised JSP CheckboxesTag and RadioButtonsTag (for strict HTML compliance)

Dear Spring community,

Spring Batch 1.0.0.m4 is available today via the s3 Milestone repository (browse at http://s3browse.com/explore/maven.springframework.org/milestone/org/springframework/batch).  See the Spring Batch downloads page for more information (http://static.springframework.org/spring-batch).

We have re-jigged the release schedule to squeeze in an additional milestone, to which Ben and Lucas are dedicated, so 1.0.0.m5 will be out in the next 10-14 days. Then we just have time for an rc1, with some contingency for rc2 if necessary, before the expected March 20 final release. 

Dear Spring community,

I am pleased to announce that Spring Integration 1.0.0.m1 has been released.
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This is the first milestone release of this new addition to the Spring Portfolio. To learn more about the project and what lies ahead, visit the Spring Integration Home. To ask questions, provide feedback, or report issues during this important phase of design and development, please visit the Spring Integration Forum and Issue Tracker.

Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead

Spring 2.5.1 is the first bug fix and enhancement release in the Spring 2.5 series. It closes a couple of gaps found in Spring 2.5 final and introduces various new features in the context of Java 6 and Java EE 5 support:

• Java-5-specific Model interface for use with MVC handler methods
• @ModelAttribute's default attribute names are consistently derived from the *declared* parameter/return type
• Support for last-modified handling in @RequestMapping handler methods (through the WebRequest interface)
• SpringBeanAutowiringSupport class for self-autowiring classes within a web app (e.g. JAX-WS endpoints)
• EJB3-compliant SpringBeanAutowiringInterceptor for processing Spring's @Autowired in EJB3 SBs/MDBs
• Remoting support for the HTTP server that is included in Sun’s JDK 1.6 (covering HTTP invoker, Hessian and Burlap)
• "jms:listener-container" tag supports a concurrency range (e.g. "3-5"), for specifying a minimum number of consumers
• Tiles2 support works on JDK 1.4 as well
• Any many further enhancements in the details…

Spring 2.0.8 is a bug fix release in the Spring 2.0 series, addressing all issues reported since 2.0.7 and backporting various minor refinements from Spring 2.5.1. This is the last planned 2.0.x release. We recommend upgrading to Spring 2.5.1 where lots of new features are waiting for you to try them...

We are pleased to announce that the Spring .NET 1.1 final release is now available

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 Feature Summary

•  Inversion of Control Container
• Aspect-Oriented Programming Framework
• Aspect Library
• ASP.NET Framework
• ASP.NET AJAX Integration
• ADO.NET Framework
• Declarative Transaction Management
• Declarative Middleware Services
• NHibernate Integration
• NUnit Integration Testing

This release has been a long time in the making and the team would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to everyone who has contributed to the project.

Happy Holidays and enjoy!

Dear Spring Community,

we are pleased to announce that Spring IDE 2.0.2 has been released today. 2.0.2 is basically a bug fix and enhancement release, but finally adds tooling support for missing Spring 2.5 features like <context:* /> and <jms:* /> namespaces and the component scan facility.

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The release is available from our release update site. Spring IDE 2.0.2 is compatible with current milestone builds of upcoming Eclipse 3.4 (aka Eclipse Ganymede).

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring LDAP version 1.2.1 has been released. This is an update release that adds a new pooling library and fixes a few problems that were in 1.2. Download | ChangeLog

A summary of the more important changes:

• Added pooling library which features flexible connection validation and better configuration than the built-in pooling. Many thanks to Eric Dalquist for this contribution. (LDAP-85)
• Fixed a problem in AbstractContextSource which led to an unnecessary reference to the LDAP Booster Pack (ldapbp). (LDAP-88, LDAP-89)
• Fixed bug in SimpleLdapTemplate where the wrong target method was being called. (LDAP-93)
• Made createContext in AbstractContextSource protected rather than package private. (LDAP-94)

About Spring LDAP
Spring LDAP is a Java library for simplifying LDAP operations, based on the pattern of Spring's JdbcTemplate. The framework relieves the user of the burden of looking up and closing contexts, looping through results, encoding/decoding values and filters, and more.

The LdapTemplate class encapsulates all the plumbing work involved in traditional LDAP programming, such as creating a DirContext, looping through NamingEnumerations, handling Exceptions and cleaning up resources. This leaves the programmer to handle the important stuff - where to find data (DNs and Filters) and what do do with it (map to and from domain objects, bind, modify, unbind, etc.), in the same way that JdbcTemplate relieves the programmer of all but the actual SQL and how the data maps to the domain model.

In addition to this, Spring LDAP provides transaction support, a pooling library, exception translation from NamingExceptions to a mirrored unchecked NamingException hierarchy, as well as several utilities for working with filters, LDAP paths and Attributes.

Spring-LDAP requires J2SE 1.4. J2SE 1.4 is required for building. J2EE 1.4 (Servlet 2.3, JSP 1.2) is required for running the example.

Where to start
Download the distribution from the link above. The distribution contains extensive JavaDoc documentation as well as full reference documentation and a sample application illustrating different ways to use Spring LDAP.

Home
The permanent home of Spring LDAP is at http://www.springframework.org/ldap.

History
Spring LDAP is based on the SourceForge LdapTemplate project. Users of LdapTemplate are advised to switch to Spring LDAP.

Mattias Arthursson & Ulrik Sandberg
Spring LDAP Project Team

Dear Spring community,
I'm pleased to announce that Spring Web Services 1.5.0 M1 has been released.

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This milestone release introduces:

• JMS transport support, for both client- and server-side
• Email transport support, also for both client and server
• Two new Spring namespaces, which drastically decrease the amount of XML to configure marshallers and typical Spring-WS constructs
• SOAP 1.2 Compatible WSDL descriptor generation
• Spring-WS jars are now OSGi bundles

Additionally, there are other minor improvements and bug fixes.

Spring-WS 1.5.0 M1 is the first milestone in the 1.5 series, which - in addition to the aforementioned features - will include support for WS-Addressing, WS-Security for the client-side and Java 1.4, @Endpoint component scanning, and more.

For more information, see Spring Web Services.