We believe that the development of cloud-native application architectures is the next great evolutionary phase of enterprise application development. These architectures combine elements like twelve-factor applications, microservices, self-service agile infrastructure, API-based collaboration, and antifragility. All of these elements enable us to simultaneously move quickly and safely as we continuously deliver business value to our customers.

The Spring team's goal has always been to win the war on Java complexity, and now we're teaming up with our colleagues on the Cloud Foundry team to…

As of Spring Framework 4.0, Java 8 is supported as a first-class citizen and we've seen some confusion in the Spring community since then. How do we manage to support Java 8 and remain compatible with Java 6 and Java 7 after all? This blog post provides some insight into how we're handling this within the framework codebase.

Java 8 language features vs. Java 8 APIs

First, a distinction must be made between using new language features and new APIs in a given Java generation such as Java 8. If a class uses a Java 8 language feature such as a lambda expression, it has to be compiled with -source 1.8 -target 1.8 and therefore the whole compilation unit will only work on Java 8+. However, if a particular class in a library optionally uses a new Java 8 interface such as java.util.stream.Stream, the library can still run on a previous Java generation as long as it is being compiled with e.g. -source 1.6 -target 1.6 - and as long as the use of that particular …

We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1.2 has just been released and is now available from Maven Central and the Spring Repository. This release includes version upgrades of some Spring projects as well as the most recent versions for all supported distros.

We have added support for the newly released Pivotal HD 3.0. In addition to that new release, we have updated Cloudera CDH to version 5.3.2 and Hortonworks HDP 2.2 to use version 2.2.4.0. 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…

On behalf of the Spring Security Kerberos team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.0.RC2. This release brings a number of changes. The highlights can be found below:

• Added support LdapContextSource. Special thanks to Nelson Rodrigues for this contribution!
• Repackaging for better management of dependencies
  • Specific implementations are moved to their own packages to signal additional optional dependencies
  • spring-security-kerberos-web now contains all of the web related dependencies (i.e. servlet dependencies)
• Bug fixes

We’d love to hear back what people think by participating in a project or simply creating issues or feature requests at GitHub…

Greetings Spring community,

Dave Syer's six-part blog series on Spring Security and AngularJS has been a smash hit! It has echoed across the twittersphere, torn up DZone, and drawn people far and wide.

Did you miss any of it? Perhaps you've heard of it and found it too difficult to track down the first post. No more.

Please navigate to our newly minted Spring Security and AngularJS tutorial and enjoy all that solid gold. We migrated 100% of it into that tutorial, made slight edits to the links, and polished it up just for you.

Share and enjoy!

We are pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 1.1.2.RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

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

• Spring AMQP 1.4.3
• Spring Batch 3.0.3
• Spring Boot 1.2.3
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.1.1
• Spring Data Evans SR2
• Spring Framework 4.1.6
• Spring Security 3.2.7
• Spring Web Services 2.2.1

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

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We are pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 1.0.5.RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release is intended for users who remain on the 1.0.x line; where possible, upgrading to 1.1.x is recommended.

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

• Spring AMQP 1.3.7
• Spring Batch 3.0.3
• Spring Boot 1.1.12
• Spring Data Dijkstra SR5
• Spring Framework 4.0.9
• Spring Integration 4.0.6
• Spring Security 3.2.7
• Spring Web Services 2.2.1

The versions of many third-party…

You might have heard about the end of public updates for Java 7, coming up in just a few days with the release of Java 7 update 80. See the following Oracle pages for a reference:

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/future_updates_of_java_7 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

Let's clarify what it really is: the end of public updates, and by no means an end of life (EOL). With the second link above, scroll down to the "Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap" section and you'll find the actual EOL dates: Dec 2018 for Java 6 and Jul 2022 for Java 7. Yes, that's another…

Spring Boot 1.2.3 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all users.

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