I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-SR2 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 1.6.6.RELEASE
• Spring Boot 1.4.3.RELEASE
• Spring Data Hopper SR6
• Spring Framework 4.3.5.RELEASE
• Spring Integration 4.3.6.RELEASE
• Spring Retry 1.1.5.RELEASE
• Spring Security 4.1.4.RELEASE

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 4.0.0.M1 is now available via Github and the Pivotal download repository. This release represents the first milestone for the Spring Batch 4.0 release. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to this release.

What's new?

We have taken this opportunity to look at Spring Batch from a new light in a few areas. Specifically:

• Java baseline
• Dependency baseline
• Java configuration

Java Baseline

Spring Batch has historically followed the baseline of Spring Framework with the intent of providing the best interoperability between Spring Batch and…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We're now squarely in 2017, and 0 as always - there is much to cover!

This is also the first week of the year. I note it with some pride because it also marks the 6th anniversary of the first installment of This Week in Spring, in January 2011, which I've since continued every Tuesday without fail come sickness, holiday, travel or otherwise. It's been a heckuva run and I'm excited to see what will grace This Week in Spring in the next 6+ years! I'm eternally grateful for all the people (from the community and internal to VMWare and now Pivotal) that have contributed to This Week in Spring over the years! For the last 3+ years my friend and Pivotal's own …

Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Dieter Hubau Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/writing-your-own-spring-boot-starter

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Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Greg Turnquist Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/spinnaker-land-of-a-1000-builds

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Recorded at SpringOne Platform 2016. Speaker: Greg Turnquist Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/SpringCentral/introduction-to-spring-data

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