Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Social Facebook 2.0.0.RC1. This release candidate brings Spring Social Facebook's API binding to target version 2.3 of Facebook's Graph API.

View the release notes here.

Be aware that due to many breaking changes in Facebook's Graph API between v1.0 and v2.0, plus additional changes up through v2.3, there are some necessary breaking changes in this version of Spring Social Facebook. Also, because of the large number of breaking changes already imposed upon Spring Social Facebook by changes in the Graph API, we decided to take…

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…

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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

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…

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.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration Kafka Support 1.1 GA is now available. Use the Release Repository with Maven or Gradle

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-kafka:1.1.1.RELEASE"

or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

Overview

The main reason of such a quick next point release just after 1.0 GA is to address a number of critical fixes for the upcoming Spring XD 1.1.1 and 1.2 releases. In addition, this release provides performance improvements around message generation streaming scenarios, which required an upgrade to Spring Integration 4.1, which is…

Greetings Spring community,

Spring WS has just released version 2.2.1.RELEASE. This is a patch upgrade with no breaking API or behavior changes. I recommend upgrading to ensure you have the latest fixes. For a listing of completed issues see the report below:

Release Notes | Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

The artifacts are staged on maven central, http://repo.spring.io/release, and bintray.

Cheers!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.0.0.RELEASE which closes over 175+ tickets. You can find the highlights below:

WebSocket Support

Spring Security 4 added WebSocket Support. It is now possible to use Spring Security with Spring's WebSocket support.

Spring Data Integration

Spring Security 4 added Spring Data Integration. It is now possible to refer to Spring Security's user within Spring Data queries using SpEL.

Test Support

Spring Security 4 has added Test Support. It is now much easier to write tests with Spring Security applications.

More Secure by Default

As exploits…