Just in case you missed it, last week Mark Fisher announced that Spring Integration 2.0 is now GA. There is a "What's new in Spring Integration 2.0?" section in the reference manual that serves as a great starting point for existing 1.0 users and provides several links to the relevant sections within the manual where the new features are explained in detail. Mark's blog also covers the appropriate Maven POM entries and a sample application for the community to try.

There is also a recent webinar entitled Message-Driven Architecture with Spring that includes a fairly broad overview of Spring's support for ApplicationEvents, JMS, AMQP, Task Execution, and Scheduling. Also covered is a demo showing many adapters: REST, SOAP, email, XMPP, and Twitter. The webinar is highly recommended for anyone who wants to learn as much as they can, in just one hour, about Spring Integration and how it fits within the Spring platform.

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Dear Spring Community,

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

Spring Android supports usage of the Spring Framework in a Android environment. The defining feature of the 1.0.0.M1 release is RestTemplate support that provides a robust REST client to use in native Android applications.

To get you started, Keith has posted a Spring into Mobile Application Development blog, which provides insight into the project.

This milestone is the first in an exciting road ahead. If you're building native Android applications that communicate with Spring web apps, we invite you to join us in the development of the Spring Android project!

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release 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 defining feature of the 1.0.0.M1 release is support for server-side device detection.

To get you started, Keith has posted a Spring into Mobile Application Development blog, which provides insight into the project.

This milestone is the first in an exciting road ahead. We invite you to get involved in Spring Mobile development and look forward to your feedback!

We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 3.0.5.

This release fixes a few bugs which were causing problems with 3.0.4. Please see the changelog for a full list of issues which have been addressed.

The release is available from the Spring Community Downloads area and should be available from the Maven Central repository soon.

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Dear Spring Community

I'm pleased to announce that we just released SpringSource Tool Suite (STS) 2.5.1.RELEASE.

Some highlights from the new release:

• New features to make Spring Roo 1.1.0.RELEASE even more powerful
• Support for tc Server 2.1 incl. Spring Insight
• Grails projects can now be deployed directly to tc Server from within STS; just drag the app onto the server and make sure to fire up the new Spring Insight to profile your application
• Enhancements for debugging Groovy code
• JDT weaving is enabled by default

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page. Feel free to stop by the community support forum if you have any question or issue.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of Spring Social 1.0 is now available!

Spring Social enables development of social-ready applications, linking your application's users to the social networks where they hang out. What's more the capabilities of Spring Social are illustrated by the Greenhouse reference application.

Spring Social 1.0.0-M1 contains the following core features:

• Social templates for interaction with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, TripIt, and Greenhouse
• An OAuth-enabled connection factory for signing RestTemplate requests with OAuth authentication details
• A web argument resolver for extracting Facebook user ID and access token information in a Spring MVC controller

To get you started, I've posted Socializing Spring Applications, an introduction to Spring Social.

This milestone release is just the beginning. We look forward to your feedback to help us shape Spring Social.

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Lost somewhere in all the news and excitement about last week's SpringOne 2GX conference was the news that Spring 3.0.5 is now available. This release addresses over 80 minor issues and includes some small improvements to the Spring Expression Language (SpEL), annotation support, and embedded databases. Be sure to read the Change Log for all the details.

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Don't forget that Spring users can ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well.

Dear community,

We're pleased to announce that Spring ActionScript 1.1 is now available.

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Besides a series of bugfixes, this release adds the following new features and enhancements:

• Component Scanning & Context XML Namespace
• Test Framework
• PostConstruct, PreDestroy and Inject Metadata

Details about the release are include in the Spring ActionScript blog. Community members can always ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well.

We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 3.0.4.

This release provides a fix for the vulnerability CVE-2010-3700. A 2.0.6 release has also been provided for users who have not yet to upgraded to Spring Security 3.

Please see the changelog for a full list of issues which have been addressed.

Both releases are available from the Spring Community Downloads area and also from the Maven Central repository.

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