Spring is well-known to actively support the latest versions of common open source projects out there, e.g. Hibernate and Jackson but also common server engines such as Tomcat and Jetty. We usually do this in a backwards-compatible fashion, supporting older versions at the same time - either through reflective adaptation or through separate support packages. This allows for applications to selectively decide about upgrades, e.g. upgrading to the latest Spring and Jackson versions while preserving an existing Hibernate 3 investment.

With the upcoming Spring Framework 4.2, we are taking the…

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that the Spring Framework 4.1.7 and 3.2.14 maintenance releases are available now. Aside from fixing various minor issues across the framework, these releases also address an XML parsing vulnerability through disabling DTD processing by default when parsing untrusted XML input in Spring MVC endpoints.

Note that Spring Framework 3.2.x has its End-of-Life scheduled for December 31, 2016. Based on demand and vulnerability reports, further maintenance releases will be made available up until then. At the same time, we strongly recommend a migration to Spring Framework 4.1.7 or the upcoming 4.2…

Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the 3.7.0 release of the Spring Tool Suite, our Eclipse-based tooling.

Highlights from this release include:

• updated to Eclipse Mars 4.5 GA (including many fixes and improvements for Java8)
• Spring Boot YML properties editor (including content-assist, hovers, navigation, and errors/warnings)
• improved support for Cloud Foundry
• Pivotal tc Server updated to 3.1.1
• early support for Spring Roo 2.0.0.M1 (thanks to Disid)

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS 3.7.0 New & Noteworthy.

STS 3.7.1 is scheduled to ship in early October 2015, shortly after the Eclipse Mars SR1 release.

Enjoy!

On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce the second release candidate of Spring Framework 4.2 is now available from our milestone repository. This release includes over 70 fixes and improvements.

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The latest version of Spring Cloud is "Angel.SR3" and it is available now from the usual repositories (note the new naming convention, more detail below). Most components are now at 1.0.2.RELEASE, but spring-cloud-netflix is at 1.0.3.RELEASE. The starters and cli and also at 1.0.3.RELEASE, reflecting their dependency on Netflix. Angel.SR3 is a bugfix release for Angel.SR2 (formerly known as 1.0.2) and all existing projects are encouraged to upgrade to take advantage.

There are a few new features, the biggest of which is the new naming convention for the starter parent project (see below…

I'm delighted to announce that Spring REST Docs has reached its first milestone and that 1.0.0.M1 is available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

Spring REST Docs helps you to document RESTful services. It combines hand-written documentation written with Asciidoctor and auto-generated snippets produced with Spring MVC Test. This approach frees you from the limitations imposed by tools like Swagger. It helps you to produce documentation that is accurate, concise, and well-structured. This documentation then allows your users to get the information they need with a minimum of fuss.

Getting…

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Integration Kafka 1.2.

This new release provides a couple of major improvements and upgrades over the previous versions:

• Support for Apache Kafka 0.8.2 and using the new Producer API;
• Overhaul of the internal concurrent dispatching with a non-blocking ring buffer implementation based on Project Reactor.

For each of the changes, the goal was to improve the performance of the producer and, respectively, consumer components of Spring Integration Kafka. While we do not have any isolated benchmarks for Spring Integration Kafka proper, the enhancements of the release have contributed to the performance metrics reported in the newly released Spring XD 1.2…

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.2, Spring XD 1.1.3 and the release of Flo for Spring XD Beta.

• 1.2.0.GA: zip
• 1.1.3.RELEASE: zip
• Flo for Spring XD Beta

You can also install XD 1.2 using brew and rpm

The 1.2 release includes a wide range of new features and improvements. The release journey was an eventful one, mainly due to Spring XD’s popularity with so many different groups, each with their respective request priorities. However the Spring XD team rose to the challenge and it is rewarding to look back and review the amount of innovation delivered to…

Dear Spring community,

The Spring team hereby announces that the Spring Framework 3.2.x line will reach End-Of-Life status at the end of 2016 (along with Apache Tomcat 6.x). We keep publishing occasional 3.2.x maintenance releases up until that point and will then end the branch.

Please prepare for upgrading to Spring Framework 4.x in time. The current Spring Framework 4 generation will remain in active maintenance until 2019, based on the upcoming 4.3 feature release next year - similar to the extended life that 3.2.x is in at the moment.

FYI, we expect Spring Framework 5.0 to be generally available by Q4 2016, requiring JDK 8+. If you need to stay on JDK 6 or 7, Spring Framework 4.x…