The first milestone release toward Spring 3.2 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:

• initial support for asynchronous @Controller methods
• early support for JCache-based cache providers
• significant performance improvements in autowiring of non-singleton beans
• initial delay support for @Scheduled and <task:scheduled>
• ability to choose between multiple executuors with @Async
• enhanced bean profile selection using the not (!) operator
• 48 bugs fixed, 8 new features and 36 improvements implemented

This is also the first release since our move to GitHub and using our new Gradle build. A special thanks to the authors of the many pull requests submitted and merged during 3.2 M1! Keep them coming!

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Dear Spring Community,

We're pleased to announce the update release 2.9.2 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

This update release got updated to support and ship the just released vFabric tc Server 2.7 and includes a few bug fixes. More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available. As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Integration 2.2 stream - Spring Integration 2.2.0.M1. Spring Integration provides an extension of the Spring programming model to support the well-known Enterprise Integration Patterns

Aside from the usual bug fixes this release brings quite a few new features and upgrades:

• Dependency upgrades such as Spring 3.1.0.RELEASE, Spring AMQP 1.1.0.RELEASE, Spring Data Mongo 1.1.0.M1, Spring Gemfire 1.1.1.RELEASE
• JPA support
• Initial support for graceful shutdown of integration context
• Support for 'Publisher Confirms and Returns' based on new features of Spring AMQP
• etc.

This release also contains many improvements. You can see full release notes here

For more information about Spring Integration, refer to the project's home page

Dear Spring Community, I'd like to announce the availability of the GA release of Spring Data 1.1.0. The overall release comes with 72 bugs fixed, improvements and new features. Here are the most important ones:

• New keywords for query generation: LessThanEqual, GreaterThanEqual, Before, After, StartsWith, EndsWith, Contains
• PersistenceUnitPostProcessor to scan for JPA entities (to be used with Spring versions before 3.1)
• CDI integration for repositories (see here for details)
• Support for native queries in @Query
• Support for declarative locking

The release binaries are available via our Artifactory instance at http://repo.springsource.org and will be available in Maven Central in a bit as well.

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Looking forward to your feedback in the forums or the issuetracker.

Hot on the heels of the 1.1.0 GA release of Spring Data JPA, I'm pleased to announce the milestone 2 release of Spring Data REST. Besides many bug fixes, this M2 release includes a major update of functionality for the Spring Data REST exporter.

New functionality includes:

• Query method support - Spring Data REST 1.0.0.M2 includes support for invoking query methods of Repository interfaces. Results are returned as links to top-level resources.
• Comprehensive validation support - In addition to JSR-303 validation, the Spring Data REST exporter recognizes Spring Validator beans declared in your ApplicationContext to provide rich validation support. Your Validator beans can do anything--even look up other data to verify the integrity of an object graph.
• ApplicationEvent handling - The exporter's validation support is built on top of the Spring ApplicationEvent mechanism. ApplicationEvents are emitted before and after each save or delete, allowing your code to tie into these lifecycle events and trigger other actions.
• Annotation-based URL configuration - There is a new annotation: @RestResource you can place on a Repository interface or on a Repository's query methods to influence both the URL under which the resource is exported and the "rel" attribute associated with the links generated to point to that resource.

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To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data REST homepage, or visit the Github repository to download the source.

Spring AMQP provides the familiar benefits of the Spring programming model to AMQP and, specifically, Rabbit MQ.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of the 1.1.0 release of spring-amqp for Java, which supports the RabbitMQ 2.8.x client, providing the following features...

• Mirrored Queues
• Broker Failover
• Publisher Confirms
• Returns
• Federated Exchanges
• ...and more

For more information, refer to the project home page.

The Spring Integration 2.2.0 Milestone 1 release supports the features of this spring-amqp release.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring Mobile 1.0!

Spring Mobile provides extensions to Spring MVC that aid in the development of cross-platform mobile web applications.

This GA release includes minor fixes and changes since the RC2 release. 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 at github.com/SpringSource/spring-mobile-samples

We want to thank Scott Rossillo, Tristan Burch, Craig Walls, and Keith Donald for their contributions to this GA release, and we look forward to working with them and the rest of the Spring community on future releases. If you are building a mobile web app, we encourage you try out Spring Mobile 1.0 and collaborate with us on the next iteration of the project.

I'd like to announce the availability of Spring Data MongoDB 1.1.0 M1. This is the first milestone of the 1.1.0 branch and comes with a hand full of new features:

• Support for GridFS (DATAMONGO-6)
• Support for JSR-303 validation (DATAMONGO-36 - community contribution)
• Support for new repository keywords: StartsWith, EndsWith, Contains, After, Before (DATAMONGO-418, 427)
• CDI integration for repositories (DATAMONGO-356)

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The release is available from our Maven repository. To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data MongoDB Page. Looking forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

Dear Spring-NOSQL Community,

The new Release Candidate 1 of Spring Data - Neo4j comes with a number of long requested improvements and additions.

First of all, SDN has been updated to Neo4j 1.7.GA which includes operational improvements and new grammar to the Cypher graph query language. To complement the added language features, this release of SDN integrates a new version of the cypher-dsl with an improved API.

By popular request, support for not only unique node entities but also for relationships is now available. This works using either the remote REST-Server or an embedded Neo4j database…