I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0.M1 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release builds on Spring Framework 4.1 and provides a number of improvements and new features. Highlights include:

• Support for distributed JTA transactions across multiple XA resources using either an Atomkos or Bitronix embedded transaction manager or a full Java EE Application Server.
• Easier configuration of JNDI bound DataSource and ConnectionFactory beans.
• Improved JMS support, including auto-configuration for the Spring Framework 4.1 @EnableJms annotation.
• Auto-configuration support for spring-cloud.
• Easier SSL configuration for both Tomcat and Jetty.
• Improved DataSource Metrics and Health Indicators.
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We are pleased to announce that the Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.0 Milestone 3 has been released. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, download a distribution archive, or see the project home page for more information.

Since the last Milestone 2, some new features and further improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes have been included to this Milestone, with the GA release due around the end of October.

First of all thanks for all who are interested in this Spring Integration Extension, provide feedback, share their thoughts and even contribute.

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We are pleased to announce the latest maintenance release of Spring IO Platform is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Reactor 1.1.4
• Reactor Spring 1.1.3
• Spring AMQP 1.3.6
• Spring Boot 1.1.6
• Spring Data Dijkstra SR4
• Spring Framework 4.0.7
• Spring Integration 4.0.4
• Spring Security 3.2.5
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.3
• Spring Web Flow 2.4.1

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

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Are you ready for SpringOne? It's almost here!

A popular part of SpringOne are the birds-of-a-feather sessions. Different groups get together to talk about different aspects of Spring, Groovy, and Grails. This year, they are scheduled for Tuesday night, September 9th, starting at 9pm. (When do they end? When everyone finally leaves!)

They are indeed popular. Last year I sat in on the Spring Framework one and enjoyed the close, unscripted discussions (not lectures). You should think about carving out some time for that!

This year, we have a new session planned: Spring Data.

If you aren't aware…

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring AMQP 1.4 is now available.

##Key Features

• Annotation-based message listeners (@RabbitListener), enabled with either @EnableRabbit or <rabbit:annotation-driven /> (see below for an example).
• RabbitMessagingTemplate allowing interaction with RabbitMQ using spring-messaging Message objects.
• A new factory bean to ease the configuration of SSL with the RabbitConnectionFactory
• Log4j Appender now supports configuration of message persistence.

Here is a simple example for a POJO service using the new annotations:

public static class…

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 4.1 Milestone 1 has been released. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, download a distribution archive, or see the project home page for links to the updated documentation, and Maven/Gradle configuration details.

The release includes some new features and further improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes, with the GA release due around the end of October.

Here is a summary of major changes:

Spring Framework 4.1

Spring Integration takes advantage of a number of new features in Spring…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.1.6 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release closes almost 50 reported issues and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

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Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that after an intense release candidate phase, the Spring Framework 4.1 GA release is now available!

Our 4.1 generation delivers major new features along several themes:

• Annotated JMS listener methods
• Comprehensive support for JCache (JSR-107) annotations
• Flexible resolution and transformation of static web resources
• MVC views: declarative resolution, Groovy markup templates, Jackson's JsonView
• WebSocket refinements: WebSocket scope, SockJS client support, WebSocket stats
• Performance: SpEL compiler mode, concurrency fine-tuning across the container
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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring!

This is the last installment of TWiS before SpringOne2GX 2014 kicks off next week! I, personally, am very excited! I can't wait to see you all there. This is going to be so much fun. So, let's get on to it!

• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke has just announced the release of Spring Data Dijkstra SR4, filled with bug-fixes and all sorts of upgrade-now-worthy stuff. Check it out!
• Spring and Groovy & Grails Tool Suite lead Martin Lippert just announced 3.6.1. The new release updates tcServer to 3.0.0, includes build performance improvements, annotation processors for AspectJ and AJDT, and more. Download now, and have the latest and greatest IDE to follow along all the guides and follow the examples at SpringOne2GX 2014!
• I hope you'll …