On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the availability of the second service release of the Spring Data Gosling release train. The release ships 45 issues fixed and contains an important bugfix for an issue in Spring Data JPA's method metadata detection. Thus it's a recommended upgrade for all Gosling users and also users of previous release trains.

The release is be included in the just released Spring Boot 1.3.1 release which should make the upgrade a non-issue. If you're using the BOM, make sure you upgrade to Gosling-SR2A (note the trailing A). A tiny glitch during the…

Spring Boot 1.2.8 and 1.3.1 have been released and are available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

If you haven't tried Spring Boot 1.3 yet, now may be the time to do so: 1.3.1 is a maintenance release that brings 126 fixes and improvements, almost half of those being pull requests. Thanks again to our amazing contributors!

Spring Boot 1.2.8 is a maintenance release with a selection of fixes and improvements.

As we have fixed a security vulnerability, we highly recommend an immediate upgrade for all Spring Boot users.

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After 4.2.4 and 4.1.9 earlier today, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 3.2.16 is now available.

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Dear Spring community,

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2.4 and 4.1.9 are available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central!

4.2.4 addresses a few regressions in the 4.2.x line and includes many fixes and enhancements, with no immediate issues remaining. 4.2.4 is a recommended upgrade for all 4.x users now. Please note that the 4.2.x line moves into maintenance mode at this point, with a low-volume 4.2.5 maintenance release scheduled for mid February.

4.1.9 is designed as the last release in the 4.1.x line, backporting applicable bug fixes as well as selected recent enhancements from 4.2.3 / 4.2.4. Note that this is the ultimate 4.1.x release: Your next upgrade step beyond 4.1.9 is the above-mentioned 4.2.5 in February, even for compatibility issues and…

Wow! It's December 15th, friends; many of us on this planet will soon celebrate a new year! Hopefully, you've done a better job than I have of getting all my new year's resolutions finished in time for 2016! If you haven't, at least catching up on the latest and greatest in the Pivotal community won't be insurmountable! Let's see what's happened this week..

• Greg Turnquist's epic blog series on using Spring with React.js is now available online as a tutorial
• Spring Batch lead Michael Minella just announced Spring Batch 3.0.6 which contains lots of great contributions and bug fixes from the community
• the good Dr. David Syer put together a very good look at Spring Boot's memory characteristics in various configurations
• Spring RestDocs lead Andy Wilkinson just announced Spring Rest Docs 1.0.1 which is maintenance release that includes a number of changes, including improved support for documenting attributes in XML payloads. An immediate
• Spring Social lead Craig Walls has been hard at work adapting Spring Social to a recent breaking change…

Greetings Spring Community,

I hope you enjoyed my blog series on React.js + Spring Data REST. In that series, you got to build up a rich web app with hypermedia controls, conditional operations, messaging, and security.

To make things even better, that series has been bundled up and converted into a tutorial: https://spring.io/guides/tutorials/react-and-spring-data-rest/

Some key updates made along the way:

• require.js has been replaced with webpack as the JavaScript module builder/loader of choice
• The code is upgraded to ES6. This means that some of JavaScript's newest features like classes, arrow functions, and more are being used.
• bower has been replaced by npm as the package manager of choice
…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.6.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. This is the 6th maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of minor bug fixes and enhancements. Many thanks to all of those who submitted the many pull requests that went into this release.

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We look forward to your feedback in Jira, StackOverflow, or to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella.

It has sometimes been suggested that Spring and Spring Boot are "heavyweight", perhaps just because they allow apps to punch above their weight, providing a lot of features for not very much user code. In this article we concentrate on memory usage and ask if we can quantify the effect of using Spring? Specifically we would like to know more about the real overhead of using Spring compared to other JVM applications. We start by creating a basic application with Spring Boot, and look at a few different ways to measure it when it is running. Then we look at some comparison points: plain Java…

I'm delighted to announce that Spring REST Docs 1.0.1.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository.

This maintenance release includes a number of changes, including improved support for documenting attributes in XML payloads. An immediate upgrade is recommended for all Spring REST Docs users.

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