We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.1 has just been released and is now available from maven central and repo.spring.io. This release updates some dependency versions. The Apache Hadoop 2.4 support (hadoop24) is updated to use version 2.4.1. The Spring Framework version is updated to 4.0.6.RELEASE, Spring Batch updated to 3.0.1.RELEASE and Spring Boot updated to 1.1.4.RELEASE.