Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Washington D.C., delivering some cloud-native realtalk at the Agile 2015 conference with my pal Andrew Clay Shafer then it's off to Denver, CO, again to speak to customers! If you're in either area, say hi!

We're fast approaching SpringOne2GX 2015! Things are getting exciting around here as the team delivers more and more amazing bits! The weeks to come, leading into SpringOne2GX, are my favorite time of the year. Watch this space for new releases aplenty!

• The biggest announcement, this week, of course, is the General availability of Spring framework 4.2! Get the bits while they're hot! This is a game changer release, packed with new features! I'll wait while you go read the new features list..
• ..Welcome back! Have you upgraded your applications already to Spring framework 4.2? Good! Next up on the list: Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller's followup post looking forward to the next feature release of Spring Framework, 4.3
• Spring Session (and Spring Security!) lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Session 1.0.2…

As a follow-up to the Spring Framework 4.2 GA announcement and also to my earlier post on Spring Framework 5 system requirements, I'd like to take the opportunity to summarize our core framework plans for next year:

#Spring Framework 4.3

First up will be Spring Framework 4.3 in Q2 2016, as a final feature release in the 4.x series. As mentioned, this will still be designed for the general Spring 4 system requirements (Java 6+, Servlet 2.5+) and getting prepared for an extended 4.3.x support life until 2019, in particular for users on JDK 6 and 7 but also for applications deployed to older app…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.0.2.RELEASE. You can find the release in Maven Central.

This release fixes 20+ tickets. The general goal was to close out bugs before we start working on Spring Session 1.1. You can find the highlights below:

Highlights

The highlights of Spring Session 1.0.2 are available below:

• ERROR dispatch can cause two sessions to be created (#229)
• CookieHttpSessionStrategy can write the same Session id twice (#251)
• Updates to previous HttpSession references are not reflected after changeSessionId() invoked (#227)
• Official support for Spring Framework 4.2 (#120)
• Our samples remove Embedded Redis (#248)
• Documentation improvements and fixes
…

Dear Spring community,

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2 is now generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central! This is a feature release in the 4.x line, compatible with Java 6 and 7 as well as Java 8, with a focus on core refinements and modern web capabilities:

• Annotation detection on Java 8 default methods (e.g. @Bean)
• Annotation-based application events (@EventListener)
• First-class support for annotation attribute aliases (@AliasFor)
• Full nested path processing for direct field binding
• Data binding and conversion for JSR-354 Money & Currency
• Integration with Hibernate ORM 5.0 (natively and via JPA)
• Standards-based bean scripting via JSR-223 (JRuby, JavaScript)
• JSR-223 based web views (with a focus on JavaScript on Nashorn)
• Rich support for CORS and declarative HTTP caching
• First-class support for HTTP Streaming and Server-Sent Events
• CompletableFuture for handler methods and @Async…

I’m pleased to announce the availability of Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.0.

Applications that use Spring Cloud Connectors, and libraries that extend the core Connectors libraries, should be re-compiled against version 1.2.0. There were no backward-incompatible API changes between version 1.1.1 and 1.2.0, but some internal implementation changes prevent 1.2.0 from being a drop-in replacement for 1.1.1 without re-compiling.

Here's an overview of what's new in 1.2.0:

Additional Databases Supported

The Cloud Foundry Connector and Spring Connector now support IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! We've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke just announced Spring Data SR2 which includes 40 issues fixed and includes an important update to the support for JTA 1.2's @Transactional
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch has just announced Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.1 which includes Spring Security 4 and LDAP 2.0 support, as well as a fix for an issue.
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch doesn't sleep so he also just announced Spring Security 3.2.8
• Not resting on his laurels, Spring Security lead Rob Winch also announced Spring Security 4.0.2 which - among other things - includes numerous bug fixes, support for Spring framework 4.2, and minor improvements to Spring Security itself including a status code returning …

On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the availability of the second service release of Spring Data release train Fowler. The release ships 40 tickets fixed and is a recommended upgrade for all users due to an important bugfix in the support for JTA 1.2's @Transactional.

Spring Boot users can upgrade to the new version by setting the spring-data-releasetrain.version property in their Maven POMs to Fowler-SR2, Non-Spring Boot users are recommended to use the Spring Data release train BOM as described in our example repository and configure it to the very same version.

• Spring Data Commons 1.10.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.8.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.7.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.3.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.4.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.3.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.2.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.2.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.2.1!

This release includes bug fixes and some small enhancements:

• Support for registering custom Kryo Serializers
• Configuration options to fine tune Kryo performance
• Update several dependencies to latest versions - Spring Integration, Boot, reactor, Groovy
• Add jars for Avro and Snappy compression to Sqoop job submission
• Fix admin UI access when security is enabled
• Improved pagination for containers and jobs

You can download the zip distribution or install on OSX using homebrew On RHEL/CentOS you can install using rpm…

On behalf of the Spring Security Kerberos team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.1. The highlights of the release are:

• Support Spring Security 4
• Support Spring LDAP 2.0
• Fix SPNEGO auth fails if client proposes MS krb5 OID #34

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