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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Spring IO Platform 2.0.0.RC1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. The 2.0 release upgrades the versions of a number of components including Spring Boot 1.3 and Spring Framework 4.2.

Please note that a number of dependencies that were previously part of the Platform have been removed or replaced in this release. Please refer to the documentation for further details.

All being well, 2.0.0.RELEASE will be released in a few weeks time once Spring Boot 1.3.0.RELEASE is available. Please take RC1 for a spin and let us know if you find any problems.

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We are pleased to announce the following release versions are now available. These versions include important bug fixes and users should upgrade as soon as possible. Click the version to see the appropriate JIRA release notes.

4.2.1.RELEASE 4.1.7.RELEASE 4.0.8.RELEASE 3.0.8.RELEASE

Please note that, unless some compelling reason arises, it is anticipated that the 4.1.7 and 4.0.8 releases will be the last in those lines; 4.x users are encouraged to upgrade to 4.2.1, which is the current release for the 4.x line.

We expect to continue to make available further 3.0.x releases to address…

Spring Boot v1.3.0.RC1 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release closes almost 140 issues and merges 53 pull-requests! Thanks to everyone that has contributed.

We're not planning on having a long release candidate phase, so please do try RC1 and let us know if you find any problems.

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

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Spring Boot 1.2.7 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and most importantly updates the managed Spring Framework dependency to version 4.1.8 (which includes an important security fix). Spring Boot itself also includes a security fix that impacts applications using Undertow.

We recommend an immediate upgrade for all Spring Boot users.

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Spring IO Platform 1.1.4.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 Boot 1.2.7.RELEASE
• Spring Data Evans SR4
• Spring Framework 4.1.8.RELEASE
• Spring Integration 4.1.6.RELEASE
• Spring LDAP 2.0.4.RELEASE
• Spring Mobile 1.1.5.RELEASE
• Spring Security 3.2.8.RELEASE
• Spring Session 1.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Social Facebook 2.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Social LinkedIn 1.0.2.RELEASE
• Spring Social Twitter 1.1.2.RELEASE
• Spring Web Flow 2.4.2.RELEASE
• Spring Web Services 2.2.2.RELEASE
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On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce that the Spring Framework 4.2.2, 4.1.8 and 3.2.15 maintenance releases are available now.

Aside from fixing various minor issues across the framework, these releases are designed to prevent Reflected File Download attacks; check the corresponding CVE report for details. We recommend an immediate upgrade for all Spring Framework 3.x and 4.x users.

Spring Framework 4.2.2 also provides WebSocket support for the recently released servers Undertow 1.3 and GlassFish 4.1.1, as well as fine-tuned CORS and JavaScript support. This release serves as the foundation of the upcoming Spring Boot 1.3…