We’re pleased to announce a first maintenance release of Spring Statemachine 1.0.1. Artifacts are available either from Maven Central or from Spring Repository.

Changes in version 1.0.1 (2015-11-18)

• autoStart via @EnableStateMachineFactory doesn't work [#113]
• Update to framework 4.2.2 [#115]
• Association with @EnableStateMachine and @WithStateMachine [#116]
• EnableStateMachineFactory fails when there are 2 state machine configurations [#117]
• PersistStateMachineHandler returning event outcome [#118]
• NPE with missing configurer [#119]
• Context events not working with StateMachineBuilder [#120]

Today we are pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.3 and Flo for Spring XD 1.0.

• Spring XD 1.3 GA: zip, brew and rpm.
• Flo for Spring XD 1.0 GA: zip.

In addition to bug fixes we have also added several new features in the 1.3 release line

• Job Composition DSL allows for the creation of a complex graph of job executions.
• Flo for Spring XD designer supports creating composed jobs.
• Admin UI supports execution history of composed jobs.
• Cassandra Sink and Header Enricher Processor
• Gpfdist sink now supports update operations and full range of control file options
• Spark 1.3.1 Support
• A timeout value for flushing writes to HDFS in order to ensure data is persisted on the HDFS DataNode’s disks.
• General dependency upgrades, Spring Data Gosling, SI 4.2, and Boot 1.2
• …

Spring IO Platform 2.0.0.RELEASE is now available from the Spring release repository and Maven Central.

Additions:

• Spring REST Docs 1.0

Major upgrades:

• Reactor 2.0
• Spring Security 4.0

Minor upgrades:

• Spring AMQP 1.5
• Spring Boot 1.3
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2
• Spring Data Gosling
• Spring Framework 4.2
• Spring HATEOAS 0.19
• Spring Integration 4.2

A number of other Spring projects and their dependencies have also been updated to their latest maintenance releases.

Please note that a number of dependencies that were previously part of the Platform have been removed or replaced in this release. Please refer to the documentation…

My goodness the time has flown! We're already staring down the beginning of 2016!

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in beautiful Casablanca, Morocco for Devoxx Morocco! This is the fifth Devoxx this year - with events in Belgium, UK, France, Poland and now Morocco - and I have the rare honor of having spoken at all of them! #fullDevoxx

We've got a lot to cover this week so let's get to it!

• Spring Boot 1.3 has just been released! This is the most epic release of Spring Boot yet and I won't even try to do the release notes! Just go check it out and visit the Spring Initialzr
• Spring framework 4.2.3 has just been released!
• Netflix have just announced the open-sourcing of their build-and-bake pipeline for continuous delivery - project Spinnaker. It's interesting for lots of reasons, but one of them is that it's written using Spring Boot!
• I'll be coming to Washington DC with several of my cloudiest friends - join us!
• There's a new checkbox on the Spring Initializr to enable the Ratpack Spring Boot integration…

On behalf of the community, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.1.0.M1. The release can be found in the Spring Milestone Repository (https://repo.spring.io/milestone/).

This release contains lots of fixes and new features. You can find a complete list in the changelog. The highlights have been included below:

• Support for search for session by username
• Support Customize Cookie Creation. Thanks to everyone who provided PRs and feedback for this feature!
• Add HttpSessionListener support
• Allow override default RedisSerializer
• Added comprehensive Hazelcast and configuration support. Thanks @_mark_a and @tommyludwig!
• Performance improvements
• Allow scoping the session in Redis using redisNamespace. Thanks fstegmann!
• Add ExpiringSession.setLastAccessedTime(long)
…

One behalf of the Spring Boot team, and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.3.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements and builds on the latest release of the Spring Framework. For full upgrade instructions and "new and noteworthy" features please see the release notes.

Here are some of the highlights of v1.3:

Developer Tools

A new spring-boot-devtools module has been added which aims to improve the development-time experience. The…

On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce that Spring Framework 4.2.3 is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This third maintenance release in the 4.2 line contains over 60 fixes and improvements.

We strongly recommend an immediate upgrade to 4.2.3 for all 4.x users. This release is the foundation for the upcoming Spring Boot 1.3 GA release coming up very soon.

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Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Antwerp, Belgium for the grand mother of all Devoxxes (Devoxxen?), Devoxx Belgium! I'm here along with several members of the team and if you're around, don't hesitate to say hi!

• Dr. Mark Pollack has just announced the release of Spring XD 1.3RC1
• Stormpath, the cloud, and on-premise, identity provider as-a-service has put up an exhaustive blog on using their Spring Boot auto-configuration with Spring Security! This is a really cool integration. I hope people reward their hard work in striving for the most powerful, expressive, and convenient developer experience! Way to go!
• Check out this short-and-sweet article on DZone to learn about Spring Boot's auto-configuration mechanism
• The Spring framework Guru is back with a video tutorial …

Welcome to another installation of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Sofia, Bulgaria for one of my favorite shows, the epic Java2Days event!

Last week saw the release (finally!) of Pivotal Cloud Foundry 1.6, which contains more than a year and half of highly anticipated features and heavy lifting. The new release includes, among many other things, support for platform-managed GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and CloudBees Jenkins CI; support for microservices infrastructure including the Spring Cloud Config Server, and Spring Cloud Eureka; and support for Docker container images and .NET applications; and support for running on Microsoft Azure. This release is packed with all sorts of features optimized for the continuous and safe delivery of software into production and I…