We're happy to announce that Spring Mobile 1.1.1 is now available. This is a maintenance release that primarily addresses an issue where some Samsung tablets were being incorrectly resolved as mobile devices. Additional testing was also added for Windows 8 and newer versions of iOS. This release is built against Spring Framework 3.2.8, and has been tested against Spring Framework 4.0.2. See the changelog for more information.

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

1. Spring Data lead Oliver Gierke has announced that Spring Data Babbage SR3 has been released. The new release rolls up Spring Data Commons 1.6.4, Spring Data JPA 1.4.4, Spring Data MongoDB 1.3.4, and Spring Data Neo4J 2.3.4. Like Spring 4 before it, this release train ships with a Maven dependency BOM (bill of materials) that can be used to level set the dependency versions.
2. March 18th Webinar - Join Mattias Arthursson as he introduces Spring LDAP 2.0.0.
3. March 25 Webinar - Be sure to check out Spring lead Juergen Hoeller's upcoming webinar: Spring Framework 4 on top of Java 8.
4. SpringOne2GX 2013 replay: Spring and Sencha - A Match Made In Heaven (or at least the cloud) is now available
5. Check out a founding father of Spring - Rob Harrop talk about Running Spring in Amazon Web Services, a great talk from SpringOne2GX 2013.
6. HCL Technologies AVP Srinivas Ajjarapu penned a nice post on some of the ways that Pivotal's stack is helping IT lower spending and get more.
7. Nicolas Frankel is back, and has put together a nice post on how to chain together Spring MVC ViewResolvers.
8. Daniel Mikusa and Stuart Williams's webinar replay introducing Apache Tomcat 8 is now available online.
9. Steve Perkins put together a nice post on his first steps with Spring Boot. Check it out!
10. John Thoms has put together a nice example of configuring Spring Boot's embedded Tomcat application server with SSL support. Check it out!
11. The stellar JHipster project, which sits on top of Spring Boot, is now available complete with new monitoring endpoints and a lot more!
12. Speaking of Spring Boot, Spring Boot RC 3 is now available. Don't hesitate to check it out.
13. Our pal Xavier Padró is back with a nice look at how to use the view templating library Thymeleaf with Spring
14. My pal Andy Piper and Eclipse Paho (an MQTT client) lead Andy Piper has put together a nice post on how to use Spring Integration's MQTT support.

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring Data Redis 1.2.0! We raised the minimum Spring version to 3.2.8. This release is tested against Redis 2.6 and current 2.8 as well as the latest version of Spring Framework 4.0.2. It introduces a set of bug fixes as well as some improvements like support Jackson 2 serialization, a transaction aware cache manager, support for the TIME command and upgrades of the Redis drivers.

For a complete list of changes please see this JIRA query. The next step will be RC2 scheduled for March. We’re looking forward to your feedback on Twitter or in the issue tracker…

Spring Security 3.2.1 (changelog) and 3.1.5 (changelog) have been released and are now available from Maven Central.

Spring Security 3.2.1 brings a number of bug fixes including

• fixing ordering issues with Java Configuration
• changes to support Spring LDAP 2.0.1.RELEASE

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.0.1. This release can be found in Maven Central and contains a number of bug fixes including a fix to work with Spring Security 3.2. For additional details, please see the changelog.

Speakers: Daniel Mikusa and Stuart Williams

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/dmikusapivotal/apache-tomcat-8-preview

Apache Tomcat 8 implements new versions of the Servlet, JSP and EL specifications as well as adding support for the new WebSocket specification. Work has also been completed on internal refactoring in a number of areas that will impact a number of Tomcat specific features. This presentation will provide an overview of the changes and new features introduced by both the updated specifications and the Tomcat specific changes. This session will enable attendees to identify the Tomcat 8 features of greatest interest to them and provide them with the information required to start planning their migration to Tomcat 8.

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA

Speaker: Rob Harrop

Running applications in the cloud presents a set of interesting new problems, constraints and opportunities. In this talk, attendees will learn how best to deploy, run and manage their Spring applications in the Amazon cloud. Covering everything from basic applications in Amazon Beanstalk to large-scale applications that span multiple regions and interact closely with on-premise resources, this talk will equip attendees with the knowledge they need to be successful running Spring in the cloud.

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Recorded at SpringOne2GX 2013 in Santa Clara, CA

Speakers: Lou Crocker, John Ferguson

Much like Spring burst onto the scene and became a defacto standard for Java, Sencha is vying for a similar role in the world of HTML5. From Ext JS for desktop development, Sencha Touch for mobile, and Sencha Architect as a design tool, it has become a pervasive technology in the new paradigm of multi-client development. In this session we will use our own SpringTrader reference application to illustrate integration techniques of Spring with Sencha. We will go beyond the basic wiring of a REST call with binding results to UI components, and look at mapping the Spring MVC and Sencha MVC architectures, along with other tips and tricks to streamline your mobile application development efforts.

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Spring Framework 4.0.2 and 3.2.8 have been released and are now available from Maven Central and repo.spring.io.

We have brought forward both releases due to SPR-11376 which strengthens Spring OXM to protect against a XXE vulnerability.

For a complete list of changes please refer to JIRA