I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Athens-SR4 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 1.6.8
• Spring Boot 1.4.5
• Spring Data Hopper SR8
• Spring Framework 4.3.7
• Spring Integration 4.3.8
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.13

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring ninja Stéphane Nicoll has just announced Spring Boot 1.4.5 and 1.5.2, both of which are packed with small improvements and bug-fixes.
• Spring Security ninja Joe Grandja just announced Spring Security OAuth 2.1.0 and 2.0.13. This release includes new features supporting JSON Web Signature (JWS) verification using JSON Web Key (JWK). This feature provides support for authorization servers and have implemented key rollover/rotation.
• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Security 4.2.2, a bug-fix release
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I am pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform Brussels-SR1 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform:

• Spring AMQP 1.7.1
• Spring Boot 1.5.2
• Spring Data Ingalls SR1
• Spring Framework 4.3.7
• Spring Integration 4.3.8
• Spring Kafka 1.1.3
• Spring Security 4.2.2
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.13

The versions of a number of third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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On behalf of Disid Corp, we're pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring Roo 2.0. This is the first release candidate, from now on we’re going to work in the improvements and bug fixes that the community detects until we'll be able to publish the final release. We encourage you all to participate in this process testing the 2.0.0.RC1 version and reporting the possible bugs and improvements in our JIRA.

RC1 version includes some improvements and bugs fixes detected in the Spring Roo 2.0.0.M3 version. Also, it includes some significant new features:

• Included some improvements on existing commands:

• Improved data-on-demand generation to use it in test commands.

• Improved test unit command which now creates fully functional tests for JPA entities.

• Improved test integration command which now allows to create integration tests for JPA repositories and JSON/Thymeleaf controllers.

• Improved field commands readability, removing unnecessary options and make other dynamically visible.

• Improved push-in --method command, allowing to distinguish between methods with same name but different arguments.

• Improved repository command to allows developers to use projections as default return type.

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On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security OAuth 2.1.0 and maintenance release 2.0.13.

The 2.1.0 release includes a new feature supporting JSON Web Signature (JWS) verification using JSON Web Key (JWK). This feature provides support for Authorization Servers that have implemented key rollover/rotation. See the GitHub Issue for more details.

The 2.0.13 release includes a small number of bug fixes and minor enhancements as well as the JWK feature to support the upcoming Spring Boot 1.5.2 release.

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It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot 1.4.5 and 1.5.2 have been released and are available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

Spring Boot 1.4.5 includes 50 fixes and a selection of improvements and dependency upgrades. The second (first, really!) maintenance release of the 1.5 line contains over 60 fixes, improvements and 3rd party dependency updates. Thanks to all that have contributed!

What's next?

The team is now working full speed on Spring Boot 2: a first milestone, including the first release candidate of Spring Framework 5, is expected early April. There are quite a lot of reactive-related features already in 2.0 snapshots. If you’d like to try them out, and we’d love to hear your feedback if you do, please go to start.spring.io…

On behalf of the community, I’m pleased to announce the release of Spring Security 4.2.2 which fix has a number of bug fixes. Users are encouraged to update immediately.

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On behalf of the entire team, I'd like to announce the availability of Ingalls SR1 and Hopper SR8 service releases. Both of them ship 77 issues fixed in total. As usual, service releases are bugfix ones and recommended upgrades for all users. The releases are going to be picked up by the upcoming Boot 1.5 and 1.4 services releases for your convenience.

The complete list of issues fixed for Ingalls SR1 can be found here, the one for Hopper SR 8 here.

Spring Data Ingalls SR1

• Spring Data Commons 1.13.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.11.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 1.5.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 2.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.9.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 4.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.10.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Speaker: Josh Long

Hi Spring fans! in this installment, we'll look at different ways to register beans with Spring, culminating in the new programmatic bean registration functionality in Spring 5.