Today we are pleased to announce the 1.0 M2 release of Spring XD (download)  Spring XD is a unified, distributed, and extensible system for data ingestion, real time analytics, batch processing, and data export.  The project’s goal is to simplify the development of big data applications.

The second milestone release of Spring XD introduces several new features that make it even easier to ingest and process real-time streams of data as well as orchestrate Hadoop based batch jobs.  In this blog post we will cover

• Shell
• New sources, sinks and transports
• DSL improvements
• Batch Jobs

Shell

The most noticeable new feature is the introduction of the interactive shell.  The shell provides you an easy way to create new streams and jobs, view metrics, interact with Hadoop, and more.  As an introduction to the shell I will redo some of the examples from the M1 blog post.

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The fourth maintenance release in the Spring 3.2.x line is now available via Maven Central, the SpringSource repository, or for direct download from our community download page. This release includes numerous bugfixes and improvements including an important security fix for Spring OXM. We recommend that all all users upgrade.

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Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.0.2! Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. This release includes the following:

• Firefox OS now detected as mobile device
• Kindle devices are now detected as tablets
• Kindle Fire devices are detected as tablet if they are in Silk Desktop mode or Android WebView, and as mobile when in Silk Mobile mode
• Additional bug fixes and improvements

See the changelog and reference manual for more information.

To retrieve the software, download the release distribution, or add the maven artifacts to your project. Sample apps are available to help you get started. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try Spring Mobile 1.0.2 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

Dear Spring Community,

We are happy to announce the release of Spring Mobile 1.1.0.RC1! Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications. This release includes the following:

• Firefox OS now detected as mobile device
• Corrected an issue with redirects and forwards when using LiteDeviceDelegatingViewResolver
• Additional bug fixes and improvements

See the changelog and reference manual for more information.

To retrieve the software, download the release distribution, or add the maven artifacts to your project. Sample apps are available to help you get started. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try Spring Mobile 1.1.0.RC1 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the second milestone release of Spring Data Redis 1.1!

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Highlights include:

• Significant enhancements to pipelining functionality
• Data type conversion and deserialization of Redis transaction results
• High level support for Redis 2.6 scripting through RedisTemplate
• Modified API for adding or removing multiple List, Set, and Hash elements in one call
• Support for using RedisTemplate without serialization

There is also a new GA release, Spring Data Redis 1.0.6!

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Spring Data Redis 1.0.6 is a maintenance release containing a few bug fixes and minor enhancements. See the Changelog for more information.

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…

I am pleased to announce the first and final release candidate of the Babbage episode of the Spring Data release train. I consists of the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.6 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.4 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.3 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.3 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

The release forms a significant milestone towards the GA releases expected around SpringOne this year. We added support for the MongoDB Aggregation Framework and improved the execution of polymorphic queries. On the JPA side of things we introduced support to use SpEL expressions in manually defined queries, improved the handling of entities using @IdClass and now allow to define the Date binding for repository query parameters using @TemporalType. The Neo4j module added support for countBy(…) queries and type safe query execution for repositories. You can find a more detailed list of features at the wiki page summarizing the Babbage content.

This release is the perfect time to play with the new features and report back your experiences before we turn it to a GA release in a few weeks. We'd be happy to hear your opinions in the forums or in the bug tracker in case you run into any issues.

If you want to learn more about Spring Data or the Spring eco-system in general, the upcoming SpringOne conference in Santa Clara, CA is the perfect time and place to be. Checkout the schedule and register!