We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.5.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the Pivotal download repository. This is the 5th maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of minor enhancements as well as bringing Spring Batch fully compatible with Spring Framework 4.2. Many thanks to all of those who submitted the many pull requests that went into this release.

Spring Batch Home | Source on GitHub | Reference Documentation

We look forward to your feedback in Jira, StackOverflow, or to me directly via Twitter @michaelminella.

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We’re pleased to announce a third milestone release of Spring Statemachine 1.0.0.M3.

A lot has happened since a previous milestone and getting here took a bit more time we originally estimated. Now that we're here, let's crack it and see what new features we have in this release.

Beyond usual bug fixes here is a list of main new features:

• Distributed state machine
• Persisting state machine context
• Relax use of enums as states and events
• Programmatic instantiation of state machines
• New recipe modules
• New samples (persist, zookeeper, web)

#Distributed state machine

Distributed state is a new…

On behalf of the Spring Data team, I am pleased to announce the availability of the first and final release candidate of Spring Data release train Gosling. The release ships 121 fixes and enhancements, most notably the following ones:

• Querydsl integration for Spring MVC and Spring Data REST (see the example for details).
• Improved compatibility with Spring Framework 4.2 and Spring Boot dev tools.
• Spring Data JPA now exposes a JpaContext to easily obtain an EntityManager per domain type.
• RepositoryRestConfigurer for less invasive configuration in Spring Data REST.
• Spring Data Redis uses Lettuce fork maintained by Mark Paluch.
• Support for ReadPreference in Spring Data MongoDB aggregations.
• Support for range facets in Spring Data Solr.
• Dependency upgrades to Spring Framework 4.1.7, Guava 18 and Jackson 2.6.
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We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3 M1 milestone release.

The most important enhancements in the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.3 M1 version:

• Add Hadoop 2.7.1 as the default release
• Add support for HDP 2.3 and CDH 5.4.4
• Bug fixes: Fix for append reopen may fail SHDP-510
• Better boot support: Support boot config props metadata SHDP-452
• Add support for Hive 1.x and HiveServer2

See the release changelog for details.

To be able to use Hive 1.x which dropped support for HiveServer1 and the corresponding Thrift client we had to rewrite the Hive support in Spring for Apache…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! This week I'm in Washington D.C., delivering some cloud-native realtalk at the Agile 2015 conference with my pal Andrew Clay Shafer then it's off to Denver, CO, again to speak to customers! If you're in either area, say hi!

We're fast approaching SpringOne2GX 2015! Things are getting exciting around here as the team delivers more and more amazing bits! The weeks to come, leading into SpringOne2GX, are my favorite time of the year. Watch this space for new releases aplenty!

• The biggest announcement, this week, of course, is the General availability of Spring framework 4.2! Get the bits while they're hot! This is a game changer release, packed with new features! I'll wait while you go read the new features list..
• ..Welcome back! Have you upgraded your applications already to Spring framework 4.2? Good! Next up on the list: Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller's followup post looking forward to the next feature release of Spring Framework, 4.3
• Spring Session (and Spring Security!) lead Rob Winch just announced Spring Session 1.0.2…

As a follow-up to the Spring Framework 4.2 GA announcement and also to my earlier post on Spring Framework 5 system requirements, I'd like to take the opportunity to summarize our core framework plans for next year:

#Spring Framework 4.3

First up will be Spring Framework 4.3 in Q2 2016, as a final feature release in the 4.x series. As mentioned, this will still be designed for the general Spring 4 system requirements (Java 6+, Servlet 2.5+) and getting prepared for an extended 4.3.x support life until 2019, in particular for users on JDK 6 and 7 but also for applications deployed to older app…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.0.2.RELEASE. You can find the release in Maven Central.

This release fixes 20+ tickets. The general goal was to close out bugs before we start working on Spring Session 1.1. You can find the highlights below:

Highlights

The highlights of Spring Session 1.0.2 are available below:

• ERROR dispatch can cause two sessions to be created (#229)
• CookieHttpSessionStrategy can write the same Session id twice (#251)
• Updates to previous HttpSession references are not reflected after changeSessionId() invoked (#227)
• Official support for Spring Framework 4.2 (#120)
• Our samples remove Embedded Redis (#248)
• Documentation improvements and fixes
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Dear Spring community,

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2 is now generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central! This is a feature release in the 4.x line, compatible with Java 6 and 7 as well as Java 8, with a focus on core refinements and modern web capabilities:

• Annotation detection on Java 8 default methods (e.g. @Bean)
• Annotation-based application events (@EventListener)
• First-class support for annotation attribute aliases (@AliasFor)
• Full nested path processing for direct field binding
• Data binding and conversion for JSR-354 Money & Currency
• Integration with Hibernate ORM 5.0 (natively and via JPA)
• Standards-based bean scripting via JSR-223 (JRuby, JavaScript)
• JSR-223 based web views (with a focus on JavaScript on Nashorn)
• Rich support for CORS and declarative HTTP caching
• First-class support for HTTP Streaming and Server-Sent Events
• CompletableFuture for handler methods and @Async…

I’m pleased to announce the availability of Spring Cloud Connectors 1.2.0.

Applications that use Spring Cloud Connectors, and libraries that extend the core Connectors libraries, should be re-compiled against version 1.2.0. There were no backward-incompatible API changes between version 1.1.1 and 1.2.0, but some internal implementation changes prevent 1.2.0 from being a drop-in replacement for 1.1.1 without re-compiling.

Here's an overview of what's new in 1.2.0:

Additional Databases Supported

The Cloud Foundry Connector and Spring Connector now support IBM DB2 and Microsoft SQL Server…