We are pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 1.1.3.RELEASE 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 to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Spring AMQP 1.4.5
• Spring Batch 3.0.4
• Spring Boot 1.2.5
• Spring Data Evans SR3
• Spring Framework 4.1.7
• Spring Integration 4.1.5
• Spring LDAP 2.0.3
• Spring Mobile 1.1.4
• Spring Session 1.0.1
• Spring Social 1.1.2
• Spring Social Facebook 2.0.1

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

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Spring Boot v1.3.0.M2 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release closes a whopping 73 issues and merges 59 pull-requests! Thanks to everyone that has contributed.

Highlights of the new release include:

• Auto-configuration support for jOOQ.
• Hypermedia support for actuator endpoints.
• Support for ANSI color banner.txt files.
• An improved way to access ApplicationArguments.
• New /flyway, /liquibase and /logfile actuator endpoints.
• Auto-configuration support for Spring Session with Redis.
• Property based configuration of Spring's "resource chains".
• New logback <springProfile> and <springProperty> tags.
• Support for Apache Artemis (following the donation of HornetQ to Apache).
• A new AntLib module to help create executable jars from Apache Ant.
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So you have decided to build an application using Spring Boot? Sooner or later, something will go wrong. It does not matter how experienced we are. How will Spring Boot help us figure out what went wrong and fix things? This talk introduces lots of tools to help us debug and manage "bootiful" apps. You will learn how to use Boot's autoconfiguration report, override Boot's settings & beans, create custom metrics/health checks/app info, and create custom JMX info & custom CRaSH commands.

Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/gregturn/debug-and-maintain-your-spring-boot-apps

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We are pleased to announce that the second milestone for the upcoming 4.2 release of Spring Integration is now available. In addition to those features in milestone 1 this release includes:

##Zookeeper Support

Several components have been added that use zookeeper, including a LockRegistry and MetadataStore but probably the most significant is the ability to assign endpoints to a leadership Role, with the endpoint lifecycle being controlled by the leadership status. When an application context is granted leadership, all endpoints in the corresponding role are started automatically. Similarly…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it! This week I'll be in Shanghai, China, talking to some customers (say hi on Twitter!) and then it's off to Shenzhen, China, where I'll be giving a keynote at the ArchSummit conference.

• Spring Integraton lead Gary Russell has just announced Spring Integration 4.2 and 4.1.6 are now available. The new release includes support for Apache Zookeeper, Java 8 CompletableFutures, (S)FTP -streams, and several performance improvements.
• Spring Boot co-lead Phil Webb has just announced Spring Boot 1.2.5.
• Spring framework 4.2 is fast approaching (in about a week!) and there are many new versions of many different (and sometimes new) projects supported. To find out more, check out this detailed blog by Spring framework lead Juergen Hoeller
• Spring Data ninja Christoph Strobl has just announced the Spring Data Fowler SR1 release…

Spring Boot 1.2.5 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and most importantly updates the managed Spring Framework dependency to version 4.1.7 (which includes an important security fix).

We recommend that all Spring Boot users upgrade.

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Hot on the heels of the final service updates for the release trains Dijkstra and Evans, the first service release for the Spring Data release train Fowler has just been shipped to repo.spring.io and Maven Central. The Fowler SR1 maintenance release includes a total of 119 issues solved and is a recommended upgrade for all users.

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• Spring Data Solr 1.4.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
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• Spring Data Cassandra 1.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
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On behalf of the Spring Data team I'd like to announce the availability of the final service release of the Spring Data release trains Evans and Dijkstra. Evans SR3 ships 114 tickets fixed, Dijkstra SR6 has 56 bugs squashed.

Dijkstra is the last release train compatible with Spring 3.2 and picks up the latest service release of that as well. Evans has been superseded by Fowler (currently in use in Spring Boot 1.2) which saw a first service release today as well. The service releases are basically considered a conclusion of the branches and upgrading to Fowler is recommended to all users.

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Spring is well-known to actively support the latest versions of common open source projects out there, e.g. Hibernate and Jackson but also common server engines such as Tomcat and Jetty. We usually do this in a backwards-compatible fashion, supporting older versions at the same time - either through reflective adaptation or through separate support packages. This allows for applications to selectively decide about upgrades, e.g. upgrading to the latest Spring and Jackson versions while preserving an existing Hibernate 3 investment.

With the upcoming Spring Framework 4.2, we are taking the…