It’s my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.1.5 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes 49 fixes and enhancements from 4.1.4 and is a strongly recommended upgrade for all 4.x users.

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Stay tuned for 4.2 RC1, coming up in May!

The Reactor team is happy to announce the release of 2.0.0.RC1, which is now available in the spring.io Maven repository as well as Maven central. Version 2.0 is an #uberupdate from Reactor version 1.1 and contains several new components as well as complete rewrites of important classes like Stream, which now implements the Reactive Streams standard.

Please note that the Maven coordinates for Reactor 2.0 have changed from those for Reactor 1.x. The new coordinates all fall under the group ID io.projectreactor rather than the previous org.projectreactor. A sample dependencies block for a Gradle…

Spring Cloud 1.0.0.RC3 is available now from https://repo.spring.io/libs-milestone-local. This is (hopefully) the last milestone release before 1.0.0. There were some bug fixes since 1.0.0.RC2 and also a few small new features:

• Refactored the Feign support to look a bit more like Spring Data (so @EnableFeignClients instead of @FeignClientScan).
• Support for multipart/form-data in the Zuul proxy
• Support for including and excluding remote services in the automatic route registration in Zuul
• Support for declarative Ribbon retry in Zuul
• Cleaned up of a lot of dependencies. If you use the spring-cloud-starters you should get a nice consistent experience of adding and subtracting features. Gradle users need to use the dependency management plugin for the same experience.
• Added small, bite-sized sample projects…

Six months after the 1.0 GA release, the team is happy to announce the availability of Spring XD 1.1 GA.

Download Links:

• 1.1.0.RELEASE: zip, homebrew, yum.
• 1.0.4.RELEASE: zip.

Please read Sabby Anandan's blog for a general overview of Spring XD. Specific to 1.1, a ton of features have been added. Here are some that will give you the most bang for your big data buck.

• Stream Processing with Reactor, RxJava, Spark Streaming and Python
• Orchestrate Spark and Sqoop Batch Jobs
• Kafka based message bus, source and sink along with new general purpose high level Kafka APIs
• Batching and compression for RabbitMQ
• Easily develop, test, and package custom modules and upload them to the admin server.
• Containers group management when running XD on YARN
• Role based authorization of REST endpoints and LDAP/file based authentication
• Support for Pivotal, Hortonworks, and Cloudera Hadoop distributions.
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Whether you’re at home, office, or in-transit, connectivity is the norm. It’s a part of daily life that we’ve all come to expect and depend on. Connectivity between people and information is all about the movement and analysis of data: data delivers insights, and these insights must increasingly deliver immediate results to users. This level of always-on, always-available connectedness presents numerous challenges. The type of data, formats, and volume is dynamic, as are the data-producing agents.

Spring XD addresses these numerous challenges within a unified platform. Whether through…

It was about six months ago that we started work on the 2.1 version of Spring for Apache Hadoop. We are now pleased to announce the general availability of version 2.1.0.

Beginning with the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1 version, we now only support Hadoop 2.0 APIs and no longer provide backwards compatibility with older Hadoop v1 distributions. If you need support for older Hadoop versions please use the 2.0.4 or 1.1.0 versions of Spring for Apache Hadoop.

The main new features for the 2.1 version are:

Configuration and Boot support:

• New @Configuration changes and improvements to the Boot auto configuration features. A good example of this support can be seen in the boot-fsshell DemoApplication example app
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Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration Kafka 1.0 GA extension is now available, providing familiar Spring Integration endpoints for Apache Kafka. As usual, use the Release Repository with Maven or Gradle

compile "org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-kafka:1.0.0.RELEASE"

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

First of all thanks to all who contributed to the project - special thanks to the project's founder Soby Chacko, who implemented the infrastructure, as well as the High Level Consumer-based message source and the producers, and also to Marius Bogoevici, who learned the intricacies of the Simple Consumer API…

Spring Security OAuth 2.0.6.RELEASE is available now in the usual repositories. It's a bug fix release, and users of 2.0.5.RELEASE should upgrade. The only critical bug was for users of JWT with refresh tokens, and there were also some people experiencing double encoding of redirect uris, which is now fixed. Highlights of new features:

• (Much requested) ability to have non-expiring refresh tokens with no customizations (just set the validity period to zero or less)

• The /token endpoint only accepts POST requests by default

• Resource servers do not accept cookie based authentication by default (you have to switch it on)

• Resource server configuration has a few new options including the ability to inject custom error handlers

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Spring Cloud 1.0.0.RC2 is available now in the http://repo.spring.io repository. There was a lot of activity pruning and curating dependencies, so users upgrading from RC1 might need to tweak their starter dependencies a bit, but hopefully we are all in a better place as a result. There were also a lot of changes in the Security features, making it easier to customize various parts of that, mainly in response to people actually using it and needing help (so thanks for the feedback). We will probably have an RC3 before the GA, but things are getting pretty close to ready.