Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that a new release candidate (1.1.0.RC1) of the Spring Data Graph project with Neo4j support is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

The Graph Neo4j module provides integration with the Neo4j graph database. Back in 2010, Rod Johnson and Emil Eifrem started brainstorming about Spring and Neo4j integration including transparent persistence and…

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the fourth milestone release of the Spring Android project is now available!

Spring Android supports usage of the Spring Framework in a Android environment. The 1.0.0.M4 release focuses on updating support for the latest Spring Social release in native Android applications, as well as providing enhancements to Rest Template. This includes:

• Support for Spring Social 1.0.0.RC1, and Spring Security 3.1.0.RC2 through the Spring Android Auth module, which includes a SQLite datastore for persisting OAuth API connections.
• Updated RestTemplate (client) support, now at the level of Spring Framework 3.1.0.M2.
• Added gzip compression support in RestTemplate
• Added support for Google's Gson JSON parsing library. The Gson library is smaller than Jackson, however Jackson has faster performance.

Spring Android is supported in Android version 2.1 (API Level 7) and higher.

To get the software, download the release distribution, or simply add the maven artifacts to your project. To see the features live, check out the spring-android-showcase (updated for 1.0.0.M4).

In addition to the reference guide, Roy Clarkson has authored two blog posts to help you get started developing Android applications:

• Spring Android and Maven (Part 1)
• Spring Android and Maven (Part 2)

If you're building native Android applications, we invite you to collaborate with us on the Spring Android project!

Dear Spring Community,

we are pleased to announce that the first final release of the Spring Data JPA project is now available! Thank you to all of the early adopters who have helped shaping and strengthening the codebase. To easily get started feel free to dig through the sample code or read up the reference documentation.

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

<repository>
    <id>org.springframework.maven.release</id>
    <name>Spring Maven Release Repository</name>
    <url>http://maven.springframework.org/release</url>
</repository>

The release will also be available in Maven Central as well.

Download | JavaDocs | Reference documentation (HTML) | Reference documentation (PDF) | Changelog

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

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the release Spring Integration, 2.0.5. This release addresses 48 issues of which roughly half were bugs and half were improvements. For details see:

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that a new milestone release (1.1.0.M2) of the Spring Data Graph project with Neo4j support is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

The Graph Neo4j module provides integration with the Neo4j graph database. Back in 2010, Rod Johnson and Emil Eifrem started brainstorming about Spring and Neo4j integration including transparent persistence and…

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the first milestone release of the Spring GemFire 1.1 project is now available! The Spring GemFire project aims to make it easier to build Spring-powered highly scalable applications using GemFire as distributed data management platform.

The new milestone updates include:

• Native support for the upcoming GemFire 6.6
• CacheServer support
• GemFire implementation for Spring 3.1 cache abstraction
• Support for queries with variable parameters

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring GemFire homepage.

Download it now: Spring GemFire for Java | Spring GemFire for .NET

We look forward to your feedback!

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the forth milestone release of the Spring Data Redis 1.0 project is now available!

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

This release introduces several new features such as:

• Spring 3.1 cache implementation for Redis
• Simplified pub-sub namespace

Additionally, with this release the Spring Data Key Value project has been split into Spring Data Redis and Spring Data Riak.

For more information on Redis and Spring Redis, attend the upcoming webinar presented by Salvatore Sanfilippo (Redis author) and Costin Leau (Spring Redis lead).

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

Dear Spring Community,

We’re happy to announce the availability of Spring Roo 1.1.5 (download here). Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full enterprise applications in just minutes.

The new release features over 95 improvements and bug fixes since the 1.1.4 release. The next release of Roo will be 1.2.0.RC1 where new features such as application layering support and a new JSF UI option will be introduced.

Also, please check out the Vaadin Plugin for Spring Roo tutorial.

The reference guide is also included in the download ZIP.

Spring Roo has a very active community and responsive development team, so if you have any questions on this new release, please feel free to ask the Spring Roo engineering team on the Community Forum. You'll also find us on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo…

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce a minor update 2.7.1 of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

The update provides:

• support for Spring Roo 1.1.5
• ships with Spring Roo 1.1.5
• Roo Shell colors customizable

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.