On behalf of the Spring Data team, I am happy to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data Release train Fowler.

The release ships 170 tickets fixed, 119 of them unique to the Fowler release train. Find a curated changelog here. The highlights of the release include:

• Upgrades to Spring 4.0.8 and Querydsl 3.6.0.
• Performance improvements in converter subsystem by using byte-code generation.
• Out-of-the-box support for JSR-310 date/time types (MongoDB).
• Various (performance) improvements in the usage of SpEL (JPA).
• Support for $bit, $mul and $position operators (MongoDB).
• Improved proxy-id detection for JPA and REST.
• Introdcution of QueryDslPredicateExceutor.findAll(OrderSpecifier<?>... orders) (Querydsl).
• CDI repository extension for Cassandra module.
• Upgrade to Gemfire 8 (Gemfire).
• Version property based ETag generation (REST).
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Spring Roo 1.3.1 RC1 Release Candidate is available.

Spring Roo jar files have been published to Maven Central. As always, the release is available in the Spring IO repository.

The candidate release fixes serious issues:

• running reverse engineering.
• installing third-party addons.

It is highly recommended that all Spring Roo users upgrade to this version.

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the Release Note in Jira.

For more project specific information please see the Project Page and GitHub

Thanks to the awesome users who came up with useful bug reports and suggestions. This is a candidate release, please try out the updates and provide feedback. As always, you'll also find Roo on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets. Stay tuned!

Spring Cloud 1.0.0.M3 is available now in the repo.spring.io repository. The following projects all had a 1.0.0.M3 release:

• Spring Cloud Config: centralized key-value (or YAML) configuration management. Now supports the config server being fully embedded in another application.

• Spring Cloud Netflix. Also has better support for embeddability of the server components. Now also properly records load balancer statistics in Ribbon-enabled Spring RestTemplate.

• Spring Cloud for Amazon Web Services. Has new Spring Boot integration points, externalizing configuration for AWS metadata.

• Spring Cloud Security: super simple OAuth2 in a declarative style.

• Spring Cloud Bus: broadcasts framework-level events to Spring Cloud components. Big news here is that we now have a RabbitMQ-based aggregator for Hystrix metrics (based on Turbine 2), so you don't have to rely on having direct HTTP access to all service instances.

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Dear Spring community,

As we promised in the Release Candidate blog post, we are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0 GA is now available. As usual, use the Release Repository with Maven or Gradle, or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

See the project home page for more information.

First of all, we are glad to share with you that on Nov 12, 2014, DZone research recognized Spring Integration as the leader in the ESB / Integration framework space, leading with 42% marketshare, in a publication of their recent survey results. And the report is…

I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate for Spring Boot 1.2.0 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This is mainly a bug fix release, although we did manage to sneak in a fantastic community contribution which adds support for Undertow as an embedded Servlet container.

For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation has also been updated to cover new features.

As usual, please report any problems using the project Issue tracker.

On behalf of the Spring Roo team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Roo 1.3.0, the first version released by DISID Corporation as project lead.

Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full web enterprise applications in just minutes.

This is the first time that Spring Roo jar files have been published to Maven Central! As always, the release is available in the Spring IO repository.

The 1.3.0 release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as several new features:

• Now Roo has complete support for JDK 8:
  • run Spring Roo with JDK 8

  • run generated applications with JDK 8
• Update Felix to 4.4.1

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the Release Notes in Jira

For more project specific information please see the Project Page | GitHub

Please try out the updates and provide feedback.

As always, you’ll also find Roo on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets. The next version 2.0 will be amazing, the best is coming up. Stay tuned!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.0.0.RC1.

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the changelog. The highlights of this release include:

• WebSocket support. See the websocket sample for details.
• Support for multiple simultaneous sessions in a single browser. Refer to the users sample for an example.
• Simplified configuration with @EnableRedisHttpSession and AbstractHttpSessionApplicationInitializer
• Support for background task to cleanup expired Redis sessions. See spring-session/gh-59
• Added spring-session-data-redis pom to make declaring dependencies more concise.
• Hazelcast Sample
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We are pleased to announce the second milestone release of Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1. The release is now available in the Spring IO repository

There are lots of version upgrades for the 2.1.0.M2 release: Spring Framework 4.1.2, Spring Boot 1.2.0.RC1 and more. See the full changelog for more details.

We updated the Kite SDK dataset support to 0.17.0 and this means there are some changes to the API. The use of a namespace in addition to the basePath is now mandatory. The DatasetTemplate now also uses ViewCallbacks instead of a partition expression for querying the data.

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We are pleased to announce that the latest maintenance release, 1.0.3.RELEASE, of Spring IO Platform is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Groovy 2.3.7
• Reactor 1.1.5
• Spring AMQP 1.3.7
• Spring Batch 3.0.2
• Spring Boot 1.1.9
• Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.3
• Spring Framework 4.0.8
• Spring Integration 4.0.5
• Spring Mobile 1.1.3
• Spring Retry 1.1.2
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.4

The versions of many third-party dependencies have also been updated.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | …