Juergen Hoeller's latest blog announces the release of the first milestone for Spring 3.0. The main highlights are the addition of REST support, the Spring Expression Language (EL) and the move to Java 5 and above. The blog post contains the details.

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Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that we have released Spring IDE 2.2.1. This version is mainly a bugfix and maintenance release but has some significant user level changes as well.

Get more information at the Spring IDE blog

Watch out for more tooling related announcements from SpringOne during the upcoming week.

Dear Spring Community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 1.0.0.RC2 is now available.
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For more information, please check out the announcement within the Spring Integration Forum, and be sure to visit the Spring Integration Home.

Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead

We are pleased to announce that Spring for .NET 1.2.0 is now available.

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This release contains the following new major features:

• WCF integration - Configure WCF services using dependency injection. Apply AOP advice to WCF services.
• MSMQ integration - MSMQ helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications. Provides integration with Spring's transaction management features.
• Apache ActiveMQ integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications with ActiveMQ/NMS
• Quartz integration - Configure Quartz jobs, schedulers, triggers using dependency injection. Convenience classes for implementing Quartz Jobs.
• AOP- New inheritance based AOP proxy generation
• NHibernate 2.0.1 support.

This release includes approximately 100 bug fixes and enhancements since the 1.1.2 release.

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Enjoy!

Dear Spring Community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring JavaConfig 1.0.0.M4 is now available.
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Major Highlights

• @AnnotationDrivenTx - support for declarative transaction management
• @AnnotationDrivenConfig - support for @Autowired, @Resource, et al.
• @ComponentScan - scan for @Component classes directly from JavaConfig
• @AspectJAutoProxy - first-class support for @Aspect beans
• @MBeanExport - first class support for exporting JMX MBeans
• Complete PetClinic sample now available with distribution demonstrating use of JavaConfig
• Improved support for externalized values with @ExternalValue and @PropertiesValueSource
• @ImportXml - bootstrap Spring XML bean definitions from JavaConfig
• Improved error handling
• ... and dozens of other resolved issues

Please give this milestone a test drive, and provide your feedback through the Spring JavaConfig Forum or Issue Tracker. For more information, visit the Spring JavaConfig Home.

Chris Beams
Spring JavaConfig Lead

Dear Spring Community,
We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 1.0.0.RC1 is now available.
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1.0 Final is now just around the corner. Please give this Release Candidate a test drive, and provide your feedback through the Spring Integration Forum or Issue Tracker. For more information, visit the Spring Integration Home.

Mark Fisher
Spring Integration Lead

We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.5.6 has been released.
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This release primarily fixes some bugs and also adds some new features:

• Over 100 resolved issues
• Updates to match up with latest version of some third party libraries, for example:
  • AspectJ 1.6.2
  • OpenJPA 1.1.0
  • EclipseLink 1.0.1
• Revised OSGi manifest headers

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.2.0 RC1 has been released.
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This release contains the following features:

• WCF Integration - Configure WCF services using dependency injection. Apply AOP advice to WCF services.
• MSMQ integration - MSMQ helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications. Provides integration with Spring's transaction management features.
• Apache ActiveMQ integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging applications with ActiveMQ
• Quartz integration - Configure Quartz jobs, schedulers, triggers using dependency injection. Convenience classes for implementing Quartz Jobs and integration with Spring's transaction management features.
• AOP New inheritance based AOP proxy generation.
• Performance Improvements in WebForm dependency injection.
• NHibernate 2.0.1 support.

Other notable new features in 1.2.0 RC1

• Color code and XML listings in reference documentation.
• Introduction of sterotype attributes - for example [Repository] 
• WCF Service exporter.
• Extensible web navigation.
• New QuickStart applications are available for WCF, Quartz, MQMQ, and Apache Active MQ integration.

Support for TIBCO EMS, Websphere MQ, and Progress SonicMQ will be made available commerically.  Contact sales for more information.

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Enjoy!

Spring Batch 2.0.0.M2 is now available. See the Spring Batch downloads page for more information - there is the usual .zip download and also Maven artifacts in S3.

Most work in this release went into the chunk-oriented approach to processing, which means changes to the ItemReader and ItemWriter interfaces, plus the introduction of the ItemProcessor as a top-level concern for translating between input and output items. Chunk-oriented processing is a key enabler for performance and scalability, as well as being much clearer for users in the extension points and interfaces (no more framework…