We are pleased to announce that the release candidate for the 1.5 release (1.5.0.RC1) is now available.

New features and improvements in this release include:

Enhanced HA Queue Support

The high availability queue support has been enhanced in that you can configure a listener container to connect to the broker that is currently the master for the container's queue. If the connection is lost, the new master is determined and a connection to that broker is established.

RabbitTemplate Blocking Receive

It is now possible to use the the RabbitTemplate to receive ad-hoc messages. Previously, only a non-blocking receive()…

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot v1.3.0.M3 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release includes 90 fixes and improvements and merges 38 pull-requests! Thanks again to everyone that has contributed.

Highlights of the new release include:

• HTTP session persistence (enabled automatically with Devtools)
• Configuration improvements for JMS and AMQP endpoints
• Various Logback and log4j 2 improvements
• Auto-configuration classes can now be excluded via configuration
• Auto-configuration for embedded MongoDB
• Auto-configuration for H2 web console

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

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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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…

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…