Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Spring Social 1.1.4.RELEASE. This includes the Spring Social Core, Web, Security, and Config modules.

This is a maintenance release, addressing a handful of bugs and introducing a few minor improvements (many of which were submitted as pull requests from our wonderful open-source community...thanks!). View the changelog for full details.

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We are pleased to announce the 1.2 release of the Spring Data JDBC Extensions project. This release updates the Querydsl dependency to 3.6.9 and adds an option to retrieve SearchResults using the QueryDslTemplate. See changelog for 1.2.1.RELEASE.

We are also pleased to announce the first milestone of the 2.0 version of the Spring Data JDBC Extensions project. The big changes for this release are:

• change to building with Java 7 or later
• upgrading the Oracle JDBC to version 12.1.0.2
• updating any dependencies to follow Spring IO Platform 2.0 including Spring Framework 4.2
• removing the Querydsl SQL support in this version (see below)
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Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! Here in the US it's the week of Thanksgiving, where - hopefully - we take a moment to note the many things for which we're thankful. I'm sure I speak for the whole team here at Pivotal when I say: we're thankful for you, dear community. Thank you.

And so, as usual, we've got a lot to get to it. All the better, in fact, for the lazy hours after turkey!

• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3 GA and Spring Flo for Spring XD 1.0. This is a huge release! Spring XD 1.3.0 supports job composition DSLs, Spring Flo for Spring XD, an improved Admin UI, Spark 1.3.1, updates to the Spring Data and Spring for Hadoop distributions, a Cassandra Sink and much more! It is also the last in the line before Spring XD completes its journey to the archhitecture already partially laid out in Spring Cloud Stream and Spring Cloud Dataflow! This is an exciting evolution of the technology!
• Spring Security and Spring Session lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Session 1.1.0.M1 complete with a lot of new features: searching HTTP sessions by username, HttpSessionListener support, customized Cookie creation, overriding the default RedisSerializer…

We’re pleased to announce a first maintenance release of Spring Statemachine 1.0.1. Artifacts are available either from Maven Central or from Spring Repository.

Changes in version 1.0.1 (2015-11-18)

• autoStart via @EnableStateMachineFactory doesn't work [#113]
• Update to framework 4.2.2 [#115]
• Association with @EnableStateMachine and @WithStateMachine [#116]
• EnableStateMachineFactory fails when there are 2 state machine configurations [#117]
• PersistStateMachineHandler returning event outcome [#118]
• NPE with missing configurer [#119]
• Context events not working with StateMachineBuilder [#120]

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.3 and Flo for Spring XD 1.0.

• Spring XD 1.3 GA: zip, brew and rpm.
• Flo for Spring XD 1.0 GA: zip.

In addition to bug fixes we have also added several new features in the 1.3 release line

• Job Composition DSL allows for the creation of a complex graph of job executions.
• Flo for Spring XD designer supports creating composed jobs.
• Admin UI supports execution history of composed jobs.
• Cassandra Sink and Header Enricher Processor
• Gpfdist sink now supports update operations and full range of control file options
• Spark 1.3.1 Support
• A timeout value for flushing writes to HDFS in order to ensure data is persisted on the HDFS DataNode’s disks.
• General dependency upgrades, Spring Data Gosling, SI 4.2, and Boot 1.2
• …

Spring IO Platform 2.0.0.RELEASE is now available from the Spring release repository and Maven Central.

Additions:

• Spring REST Docs 1.0

Major upgrades:

• Reactor 2.0
• Spring Security 4.0

Minor upgrades:

• Spring AMQP 1.5
• Spring Boot 1.3
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2
• Spring Data Gosling
• Spring Framework 4.2
• Spring HATEOAS 0.19
• Spring Integration 4.2

A number of other Spring projects and their dependencies have also been updated to their latest maintenance releases.

Please note that a number of dependencies that were previously part of the Platform have been removed or replaced in this release. Please refer to the documentation…

My goodness the time has flown! We're already staring down the beginning of 2016!

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in beautiful Casablanca, Morocco for Devoxx Morocco! This is the fifth Devoxx this year - with events in Belgium, UK, France, Poland and now Morocco - and I have the rare honor of having spoken at all of them! #fullDevoxx

We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Boot 1.3 has just been released! This is the most epic release of Spring Boot yet and I won't even try to do the release notes! Just go check it out and visit the Spring Initialzr
• Spring framework 4.2.3 has just been released!
• Netflix have just announced the open-sourcing of their build-and-bake pipeline for continuous delivery - project Spinnaker. It's interesting for lots of reasons, but one of them is that it's written using Spring Boot!
• I'll be coming to Washington DC with several of my cloudiest friends - join us!
• There's a new checkbox on the Spring Initializr to enable the Ratpack Spring Boot integration…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.1.0.M1. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone Repository (https://repo.spring.io/milestone/).

This release contains lots of fixes and new features. You can find a complete list in the changelog. The highlights have been included below:

• Support for search for session by username
• Support Customize Cookie Creation. Thanks to everyone who provided PRs and feedback for this feature!
• Add HttpSessionListener support
• Allow override default RedisSerializer
• Added comprehensive Hazelcast and configuration support. Thanks @_mark_a and @tommyludwig!
• Performance improvements
• Allow scoping the session in Redis using redisNamespace. Thanks fstegmann!
• Add ExpiringSession.setLastAccessedTime(long)
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One behalf of the Spring Boot team, and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.3.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements and builds on the latest release of the Spring Framework. For full upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

Here are some of the highlights of v1.3:

Developer Tools

A new spring-boot-devtools module has been added which aims to improve the development-time experience. The…