Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In a few short weeks we'll be in 2015! Will that be exciting? Of course. But this week's pretty exciting as well! So much good stuff this week.

• Spring Boot 1.2.0 is here! So many new features for Java EE (Servlet 3.1-baseline, JTA, JMS and JNDI support) and improved Jackson output, Actuator endpoints, CLI updates and performance. Spring Cloud is already tracking 1.2 and will be based on this soon, as well. Get the bits.

• Spring Boot 1.1.10 is now available with numerous fixes.

• Resident mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just announced the latest cut of the Spring IO platform library. There are lots of things of note, but in particular it's added support for Spring Integration Flow 1.0, Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0, and Spring Integration Splunk 1.1 and updated revisions for several projects besides.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.4 has just been released and is now available from Maven Central and the Spring Repository. This release includes some bug fixes and enhancements to the HDFS writers and partitioning features. We have also added support for Apache Hadoop 2.6.0 and Cloudera CDH has been updated to version 5.2.0. More details can be found in the changelog or in the JIRA release notes.

Here is a complete list of the latest version designation to use for the various distro "flavors" published. The Apache Hadoop releases are available in Maven Central and all other releases are available in the Spring Repository…

We are pleased to announce the availability of Spring Integration 4.1.1, 4.0.6, and Spring AMQP 1.4.1. In general, these are minor releases with a small number of bug fixes, but Spring Integration 4.1.1 adds support for decoding RFC 5424 syslog messages and Spring AMQP 1.4.1 adds support for the new Direct reply-to feature in RabbitMQ 3.4.

Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0.1, with a correction with the recipient list router is also available now.

For complete details of the release contents, see the corresponding release notes.

Spring Integration 4.1.1. Release Notes Spring Integration 4.0.6. Release Notes Spring AMQP 1.4.…

We are pleased to announce that RC1 of Spring IO Platform 1.1 is now available from repo.spring.io. Please try out the release candidate and let us know if you encounter any problems.

New projects in 1.1

The following projects are new to the Platform in 1.1:

• Spring Integration Flow 1.0
• Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0
• Spring Integration Splunk 1.1

Projects upgraded in 1.1

Several projects have new minor versions in 1.1:

• Spring Boot 1.2
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.1
• Spring Data JPA 1.7
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6
• Spring Data Neo4J 3.2
• Spring Data Redis 1.4
• Spring Data REST 2.2
• Spring Data Solr 1.3
• Spring Framework 4.1
• Spring Integration 4.1
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We are please to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.0.RC1. This release resolved 40 tickets. You can find a highlight of the changes below.

• Updated Defaults - As security evolves, so does Spring Security. We took this opportunity to ensure that the defaults were more secure. For example, the XML Namespace support now enables CSRF protection by default.
• Polish WebSocket Security - We received very valuable feedback from the community which allowed us to polish the WebSocket security. We also added XML Namespace configuration support for WebSocket security. Details can be found on the update blog Preview Spring Security WebSocket Support
• Minimum Dependency Versions - The minimum dependency…

I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements over 1.1 and is a recommended upgrade for all users. For upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

Here are some of the highlights of this release:

Servlet 3.1

Spring Boot now uses Servlet 3.1 when running with an embedded servlet container. Tomcat 8, Jetty 9 and Undertow 1.1 are all supported options. In addition, WebSocket support has been improved and is now…

Speaker: Stephane Maldini

Slides:https://speakerdeck.com/smaldini/introduction-to-reactor-and-reactive-streams

What is the role of asynchronous, non-blocking style-communication in microservices? Join Stephane Maldini for a revealing look at why reactive components are so important in an eventually-consistent approach like microservice architecture. When services own their data and are completely independent, having a (reactive) abstraction layer can perform a variety of roles. Being able to parallelize resources a microservice owns is an important technique. Another might be as an event bus, pulling state data from various micro services dynamically, checking against the cached, fairly up-to-date local copy. While a microservice has “all” the data it needs from other services to respond to a request, this data is not necessarily up-to-date—an important constraint to be prepared to accept. Stephane will also discuss other async use cases outside of microservices and how www.reactive-streams.org protocol support allows levels of portability across vendor implementations.

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Spring Boot 1.1.10 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and enhancements and is recommended for anyone that doesn't yet want to upgrade to the new 1.2.0 release.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! In a few short weeks we'll be in 2015! Will that be exciting? Of course. But this week's pretty exciting as well! So much good stuff this week.

• Spring Boot 1.2.0 is here! So many new features for Java EE (Servlet 3.1-baseline, JTA, JMS and JNDI support) and improved Jackson output, Actuator endpoints, CLI updates and performance. Spring Cloud is already tracking 1.2 and will be based on this soon, as well. Get the bits.

• Spring Boot 1.1.10 is now available with numerous fixes.

• Resident mad-scientist Andy Wilkinson just announced the latest cut of the Spring IO platform library. There are lots of things of note, but in particular it's added support for Spring Integration Flow 1.0, Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0, and Spring Integration Splunk 1.1 and updated revisions for several projects besides.

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