On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce the second release candidate of Spring Framework 4.1 is now available from our milestone repository. This release includes over 70 fixes and improvements.

Spring 4.1 is really coming up soon: please try it out and let us know if you run into any issue. We're looking forward to getting in touch via Twitter, StackOverflow or JIRA.

SpringOne 2GX 2014 is around the corner

Book your place at SpringOne in Dallas, TX for Sept 8-11 soon. It's simply the best opportunity to find out first hand all that's going on and to provide direct feedback. There will be deep dive sessions on Spring XD along with general Big Data talks to provide an introduction to the landscape and challenges in developing Big Data applications.