Great news for everyone interested in advanced, scalable, enterprise and cloud messaging! The RabbitMQ team has just released a brand new version, RabbitMQ 2.0, of their popular messaging server. The release includes an all new scalable storage engine, native support for multi-protocol messaging, improvements to plugin distribution and much more.

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Spring Community members can use the new Spring AMQP project for both Java and .NET connectivity to RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ and Spring AMQP will be among the incredible technical content featured at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago, October 19th-21st. Be sure to register now to lock in an early registration discount.

Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.4 is now available. This release addresses over 80 minor issues and updates Spring's support for some recent third-party releases including Hibernate Core 3.6, Hibernate Validator 4.1, EclipseLink 2.1, and EHCache 2.2.

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All the latest features for Spring as well as advanced technical sessions and roadmap discussion will be happening at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago, October 19th-21st. Be sure to register now to lock in an early registration discount.

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

The first maintenance release in the 2.1 branch of Spring Web Flow is now available for download.

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We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of the Spring AMQP 1.0 project is now available for both Java and .NET!

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Spring AMQP makes common Spring idioms available to developers who are building AMQP-based messaging solutions. For example, building a messaging application that uses RabbitMQ as a broker will feel quite similar to building an application based on Spring's JMS support. To learn more about the project, visit the Spring AMQP Homepage. There you will find links to the Reference Manual, Forum, Issue Tracker…

SpringSource has just released a new milestone version of SpringSource Tool Suite: 2.3.2.M2. STS provides the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring and Grails powered enterprise applications. Here are some highlights from the release:

• integration with GWT and Google App Engine
• visual editor for Spring Integration
• support for Spring Roo 1.1.0.M2
• non-locking class loader infrastructure
• new Grails Project Explorer, Perspective and Plugin Manager
• new Subclipse and Subversive extension installs

This is also the first time we are providing bundles based on Eclipse 3.5 and 3.6. If you aren't quite ready to try the cutting edge milestone release, then you can always download the 2.3.2.RELEASE version.

You can also get community support in the Spring Development Tools support forums. If you want to provide direct technical feedback, open a JIRA issue against the SpringSource Tool…

We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 3.0.3.

This is mainly a minor bugfix release. Please see the changelog for a list of issues which have been addressed. You must be using Spring 3.0.3 or later to use this version.

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The first Apache Tomcat 7 release, Tomcat 7.0.0 beta, is now available from the Tomcat 7 download page at the Apache Software Foundation.

SpringSource's Tomcat expert, Mark Thomas, describes the details of the release at TomcatExpert.com.In addition to the implementation of the Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2 and EL 2.2 specifications, Tomcat 7 boasts a number of new features:

• memory leak prevention and detection
• protection against session fixation attacks
• a simple filter to add cross-site request forgery protection to an application
• simplified embedding
• alias support
• better security for the Manager and Host Manager applications

Developers interested in using Tomcat should also check out tc Server Developer Edition which incorporates the Spring Insight performance analysis console. The tc Server team are tracking the Tomcat beta process and will provide…

Spring Web Flow 2.1 built on Spring 3.0.3 is now final and available for download. Please, see the appropriate section in the documentation for an overview of what's new in this release.

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Juergen Hoeller has announced that Spring 3.0.3 is now available. This minor release addresses over 100 minor issues and catches up with some recent third-party releases.

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Please note that we are not providing a dependencies download anymore. The recommended way of obtaining third-party libraries for use with Spring is Maven/Ivy; you could also download third-party distributions of your choice and take the jars from there. Note that there is no reason to upgrade third-party libraries unless you want to: The simplest solution is to keep using the versions that you know and trust.

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