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…

On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.2.3 is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This third maintenance release in the 4.2 line contains over 60 fixes and improvements.

We strongly recommend an immediate upgrade to 4.2.3 for all 4.x users. This release is the foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.3 GA release coming up very soon.

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Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the grand mother of all Devoxxes (Devoxxen?), Devoxx Belgium! I'm here along with several members of the team and if you're around, don't hesitate to say hi!

• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3RC1
• Stormpath, the cloud, and on-premise, identity provider as-a-service has put up an exhaustive blog on using their Spring Boot auto-configuration with Spring Security! This is a really cool integration. I hope people reward their hard work in striving for the most powerful, expressive, and convenient developer experience! Way to go!
• Check out this short-and-sweet article on DZone to learn about Spring Boot's auto-configuration mechanism
• The Spring framework Guru is back with a video tutorial …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Sofia, Bulgaria for one of my favorite shows, the epic Java2Days event!

Last week saw the release (finally!) of Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.6, which contains more than a year and half of highly anticipated features and heavy lifting. The new release includes, among many other things, support for platform-managed GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and CloudBees Jenkins CI; support for microservices infrastructure including the Spring Cloud Config Server, and Spring Cloud Eureka; and support for Docker container images and .NET applications; and support for running on Microsoft Azure. This release is packed with all sorts of features optimized for the continuous and safe delivery of software into production and I…

Flo for Batch pipeline builds upon the newly supported Batch DSL in Spring XD that can be used to create composite batch workflows involving sequential, parallel or even the combination of both jobs.

On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring XD 1.3 is now available for download. You can also install using brew and rpm.

This release includes some major new functionality for batch jobs. We have introduced the ability to create composed jobs that allows you to create a complex graph of jobs executed based on a new Job DSL. Flo for Spring XD UI has been updated to support the new Job DSL and provide a visual drag and drop canvas for creating composed jobs. Spring XD’s job execution UI also supports execution history of composed…

I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 3.2.9.RELEASE. This release provides bug fixes and minor enhancements. For complete details on the release, refer to the Change Log.

Highlights of the release include:

• SEC-2190 - Fixing integration with the JSP tag libraries when Spring Security is registered in a child ApplicationContext
• SEC-2521 - Removal of synchronized in StandardPasswordEncoder which drastically improves performance
• SEC-3108 - Fix potential race condition in DigestAuthenticationFilter
• SEC-3109 - DelegatingSecurityContextExecutor works with Concurrent/ThreadPoolTaskScheduler
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I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.3.RELEASE. This release provides bug fixes and minor enhancements. For complete details on the release, refer to the Change Log.

Highlights of the release include:

• SEC-3063 - Fixes for Spring Boot 1.3
• SEC-2190 - Fixing integration with the JSP tag libraries when Spring Security is registered in a child ApplicationContext
• SEC-2521 - Removal of synchronized in StandardPasswordEncoder which drastically improves performance
• SEC-3108 - Fix potential race condition in DigestAuthenticationFilter
• SEC-3109 - DelegatingSecurityContextExecutor works with Concurrent/ThreadPoolTaskScheduler
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