On behalf of the Spring Data team I am pleased to announce the availability of the first service release of the Dijkstra release train. It includes 59 fixes overall for the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.8.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.6.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.5.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.0.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.0.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Spring Boot 1.1.3 is available now in Maven Central. This was primarily a bugfix release for Windows users needing the executable JAR features of Spring Boot, but several other issues were resolved, and there are plenty of documentation and third-party version updates too.

Thanks again to all the people who contributed (84 committers now and rising)!

We're pleased to announce the release of Spring IO Platform 1.0.0 RELEASE, and represents some amazing engineering work. The highlights of this release are:

• A Bill-of-Materials release (a Maven BOM dependency) that level sets the versions for you.
• Spring IO represents curated and harmonized dependencies that just work together - tests cover all the Spring projects and lots of popular 3rd party open source
• One platform, many workloads - build web (HTML-, websocket-, and REST-powered web apps), mobile, integration, batch, reactive or big data applications, or just great APIs
• Radically simplified development experience with Spring Boot
• Production-ready features provided out of the box (monitoring, metrics, etc)
• …

The second maintenance release for Spring Boot 1.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and maven central.

This release fixes a number of issues and also offers some performance improvements when running "executable JARs". For a complete list of changes see the issue tracker.

(Windows users may want to use the Spring Boot 1.1.3.RELEASE as it fixes some Windows specific issues.)

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I'd like to announce the availability of the third and final service release for the Spring Data release train named Codd. The release contains a lot of bug fixes that made it into the RC and GA releases of the Dijkstra release train already.

• Spring Data Commons 1.7.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.5.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.4.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.0.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.1.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.0.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
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We are pleased to announce the release of the Second Milestone of the Java DSL extension for Spring Integration!

The org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-java-dsl:1.0.0.M2 artifact is available from the Spring IO Milestone Repository.

Milestone 2 includes several bug fixes, some new features and further improvements.

Thank you to all who tried milestone 1, provided feedback, raised issues, and shared their thoughts.

Here is a summary of major changes since Milestone 1:

Lambda Handler

As you may have noticed, the use of Java 8 Lambdas is the power tool to make this DSL convenient and readable. One community request we received was to allow the declaration of a Lambda for the .handle() EIP-method instead of having to declare a POJO and use it as a method invocation. But one concern was to not lose "runtime type conversion". However, you can't get the generic type for Lambdas. After some investigation we found the solution by additing a type argument. Hence, several new methods have been added to the IntegrationFlowBuilder…

We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop version 2.0 is now GA.

Providing support for Hadoop v2.0 and YARN while maintaining compatibility with Hadoop v1.0

It's been well over a year since Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 was released. Spring was part of VMware at that time. Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 supported Hadoop 1.0.4 and 1.1.1 but not the latest 2.0 alpha versions. A lot has changed since then. Spring is now part of Pivotal which brings us together with a great portfolio of open source technologies. The Apache Hadoop project has released several new versions of Hadoop…

Spring Boot 1.1.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and maven central. This release will form part of the Spring IO Platform and offers a number of new features and improvements over 1.0. For upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

NOTE: Please use v1.1.1 as there was a minor issue with the initial v1.1.0 release

Here are some of the highlights:

Templating Support

Alongside the existing Thymeleaf and JSP support, Additional templating options have been added for Freemarker, Velocity and Groovy. Groovy templates are…

The Spring XD team is pleased to announce that Spring XD Milestone 7 is now available for download.

Highlights of this release

• Transport Data Partitioning: By default, messages are delivered to multiple instances of a stream module in a round-robin manner. However, if a module performs operations such that it can not consume random messages from the stream, then you can partition the stream based on its content so that similar messages are always delivered to the same module instance. For example, if a processing module is performing stateful operations on a per-customer basis, the stream…