The Spring Data team has just released the final service release for the Arora release train. SR3 includes the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.5.3 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data JPA 1.3.5 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.2.4 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.2.3 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts

In it's core the release includes all bug fixes made between Babbage RC1 and GA that were candidates for back porting. It's a recommended update for all users on Arora that cannot upgrade to Babbage for whatever reason.

The third service release is the last release for Arora. The Spring Data team is now focussing on the development of the first milestone for the upcoming release train called Codd as well as service releases for Babbage. You can find an overview of the further release planning…

Hot on the heals of the Spring Data Babbage GA release I am happy to announce the availability of two community driven Spring Data modules, namely the first milestone of Spring Data Couchbase lead by Michael Nitschinger and the 1.0 GA of Spring Data Solr lead by Christoph Strobl.

The first milestone release of the Couchbase module contains lots of features that allow you to build content driven and scalable applications on top of Couchbase and spring-data very quickly. This release features support for templates, repositories, Java and XML-style configuration. Entities are automatically converted into JSON documents, which can be queried from Couchbase and exported through scalable map/reduce views. In addition to that, the release contains support for @Cacheable…

Dear Spring community,

I am happy to announce the first milestone release 3.4.0.M1 of the Spring Tool Suite (STS) and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS).

Highlights from this milestone build include:

• import new Getting Started guides directly into the IDE
• new wizard to start with Spring Boot directly from within the IDE
• automatic detection for JavaConfig classes
• basic support for Groovy in Spring IDE
• updated to Eclipse Kepler SR1 (RC1)
• updated to Grails 2.2.4
• updated to tc Server 2.9.3

Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Kepler SR1 RC builds.

The 3.4.0. release is scheduled for early October 2013 - shortly after the Eclipse Kepler SR1 release.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

Detailed new and noteworthy notes can be found here: STS/GGTS 3.4.0.M1 New & Noteworthy.

Enjoy!

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the SpringOne 2013 release of Spring Data Redis 1.1! This release provides support for Redis 2.6 commands and features, including an abstraction for running Redis scripts from your Spring application.

Other highlights include:

• Significant enhancements to pipelining functionality
• Data type conversion and deserialization of Redis transaction results
• Modified API for adding or removing multiple List, Set, and Hash elements in one call

Run this Jira Query for a complete list of changes.

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker…

We're super excited to let the cat out of the bag and release support for writing YARN based applications as part of the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0 M1 release. In this blog post I’ll introduce you to YARN, what you can do with it, and how Spring simplifies the development of YARN based applications.

If you have been following the Hadoop community over the past year or two, you’ve probably seen a lot of discussions around YARN and the next version of Hadoop's MapReduce called MapReduce v2. YARN (Yet Another Resource Negotiator) is a component of the MapReduce project created to overcome some…

Dear Spring community, just in time for SpringOne 2013, we are happy to announce the availability of the GA version of the Spring Data release train code named Babbage. The release concludes the development of a pile of new features and improvements for the Spring Data Core, JPA, MongoDB and Neo4j modules and will serve as foundation for upcoming releases of a bunch of community modules. Here are the most important features of the release.

General upgrades / Spring Data Commons:

• Spring 4 and JDK 8 compatibility improvements in Spring Data Core to leak into all modules
• Extended Pageable/Page APIs
• Advanced web and hypermedia integration for Spring MVC
• Support for count…By in derived query method names of repositories
• Upgrade to Querydsl 3.x timeline
• Improved CDI extensions for all modules
…

Spring Security 3.2.0.RC1 is now available from the SpringSource repository at http://repo.springsource.org. See here for a quick tutorial on resolving these artifacts via Maven.

This release includes tons of updates and fixes. The highlights include:

Polishing of Spring Security Java Configuration

• Uses content negotiation to determine how to prompt user for authentication when multiple authentication mechanisms (i.e. HTTP Basic and Form login) enabled
• AbstractSecurityWebApplicationInitializer allows registering Java Configuration directly
• A number of bugs fixed

CSRF protection and automatic integration with Spring Web MVC jsp tags

Automatic cache control support

Defence against Clickjacking attacks

HTTP Strict Transport Security support to reduce Man in the Middle attacks

Samples include pom.xml so they can be imported as Maven projects

MediaTypeRequestMatcher for matching on requests with content negotiation

Over ten java configuration samples have been integrated into the samples directory

Three new guides that walk users through samples and provide detailed instructions on how to do specific tasks. More of these guides will follow in coming releases

Refer to Spring Security 3.2.0.RC1 preview for more details about this release.

SpringOne2GX

To learn about all the new features within Spring Security 3.2 attend my Getting Started with Spring Security 3.2 presentation at SpringOne2GX September 9-12, 2013. If you haven't already gotten your tickets, do so now before its too late!

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It is with great pleasure that I am announcing the release of Spring LDAP 1.3.2. This release contains lots of bug fixes and will provide a solid foundation for a Spring LDAP 2.0 release.

I'd like to thank Mattias Arthursson from 261 Consulting for all his hard work on this release.

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring Data Redis 1.1!

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Highlights include:

• Support for millisecond precision in key expiration commands
• Resubscription of message listeners on connection failure
• Full implementation of ConcurrentMap contract in RedisMap and RedisProperties

For more information about Spring Data Redis please see the home page for a live sample and webinar recording.

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker. We hope to see you at the upcoming SpringOne conference in Santa Clara, CA. Checkout the schedule and register!