We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.2 RC1 milestone releases. This is the last planned release before the 2.2 GA release in approximately 2 weeks.

The most important changes/enhancements in the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.2 version are:

• Remove support for running with JDK 6, Java 7 or later is now required
• Improvements to the HDFS writer to support syncable writes and a new timeout option
• Add support for Pivotal HD 3.0
• Update CLoudera CDH 5 to use version 5.3.3
• Update Hortonworks HDP 2.2 version to 2.2.4.0
• Update Kite SDK to version 1.0
• Update Spring project versions to the latest
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Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Spring Social 1.1.2.RELEASE. This includes Spring Social's core, web, security, and config modules. This release fixes a dependency issue from last week's 1.1.1.RELEASE.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.4.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the SpringSource download repository. This is the 4th maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of bugs and a few minor enhancements. Many thanks to all of those who submitted the many pull requests that went into this release.

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We look forward to your feedback in Jira, StackOverflow, or to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella.

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce the availability of Spring Social 1.1.1.RELEASE. This is a maintenance release, addressing a handful of bugs and introducing a few minor improvements. View the release notes for full details.

Compatibility note: In order to fix a serialization issue when using ProviderSignInUtils, a minor breaking change was necessary. ProviderSignInAttempt no longer carries its own ConnectionFactoryLocator and UsersConnectionRepository. Those must now be passed in as parameters when instantiating ProviderSignInUtils.

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I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Test HtmlUnit 1.0.0 RC1. The highlights of the release can be found below:

Migration Guide

A detailed migration guide from 1.0.0.M2 to 1.0.0.RC1 was added.

New Maven Coordinates

We have changed the maven group id. For details refer to Updating Dependencies

Default Context Path is ""

Based upon community feedback, the default context path is now "". This means if you are using a previous release, you will need to update the URL that is configured.

For details refer to Default Context Path is now ""

MockMvc WebClient & WebDriver Builders

This release…

We are pleased to announce that Gradle dependency management plugin 0.5.1.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central, Bintray, and the Gradle Plugin Portal. For more information about how the plugin can improve your Gradle builds, please read the introductory blog post.

This maintenance release fixes an issue with the support for Maven-style exclusions. In addition, 0.5.0 introduced a new task, dependencyManagement, that you can use to diagnose your project's dependency management. More details can be found in the project's README.

We are pleased to announce that the latest maintenance release for Spring AMQP (1.4.5.RELEASE) is now available. This contains just a few bug fixes since 1.4.4.

In addition, the first milestone release for the 1.5 release is also available (1.5.0.M1). A release candidate will be available in a month or so, with the GA expected later in the summer.

The main features of this release are highlighted below:

##Class-level @RabbitListener

It is now possible to define the @RabbitListener annotation at the class level. Together with method-level @RabbitHandler annotations, this allows a single…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security SAML 1.0.1. This release is passive to 1.0.0 the highlights of which are:

• Added support for Spring Security 4.0
• Added integration guide with Okta
• MaxAuthenticationAge time supports longer expiration times than 21 days
• Deployment without JKS keystore is now supported
• Service provider can now define multiple assertion consumer endpoints with same binding
• Minor fixes and documentation improvements

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I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.0.3.RELEASE. The highlights of this release include:

• LDAP-330 - Support for Spring Data Commons 1.10 (Spring Data Fowler)
• LDAP-304 - NullPointerException DirContextAdapter.collectModifications
• LDAP-314 - repository methods ignoring @Entity(base=)
• LDAP-317 - ldap:context-source/url not parsing properties #{}
• LDAP-321 - IllegalStateException: No value for key PoolingContextSource

For additional information on the release, refer to the changelog.

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