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.

We are pleased to announce that the first maintenance release of Spring IO Platform has been released. It's available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Spring AMQP 1.3.5
• Spring Boot 1.1.4
• Spring Batch 3.0.1
• Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.1
• Spring Framework 4.0.6

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Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Social Facebook 2.0.0. The primary focus of this release was to update the API binding to target version 2.0 of Facebook's Graph API.

Note that due to breaking changes in Facebook's Graph API, there were necessarily some breaking changes in this version of Spring Social Facebook. Fortunately, however, Facebook has promised a two-year stability guarantee for all versions of their API, so such breaking changes should be able to be handled more gracefully going forward.

Facebook is requiring all applications…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I am pleased to announce the availability of the first service release of the Dijkstra release train. It includes 59 fixes overall for the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.8.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.6.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.5.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.0.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.0.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Spring Boot 1.1.3 is available now in Maven Central. This was primarily a bugfix release for Windows users needing the executable JAR features of Spring Boot, but several other issues were resolved, and there are plenty of documentation and third-party version updates too.

Thanks again to all the people who contributed (84 committers now and rising)!

We're pleased to announce the release of Spring IO Platform 1.0.0 RELEASE, and represents some amazing engineering work. The highlights of this release are:

• A Bill-of-Materials release (a Maven BOM dependency) that level sets the versions for you.
• Spring IO represents curated and harmonized dependencies that just work together - tests cover all the Spring projects and lots of popular 3rd party open source
• One platform, many workloads - build web (HTML-, websocket-, and REST-powered web apps), mobile, integration, batch, reactive or big data applications, or just great APIs
• Radically simplified development experience with Spring Boot
• Production-ready features provided out of the box (monitoring, metrics, etc)
• …

The second maintenance release for Spring Boot 1.1 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and maven central.

This release fixes a number of issues and also offers some performance improvements when running "executable JARs". For a complete list of changes see the issue tracker.

(Windows users may want to use the Spring Boot 1.1.3.RELEASE as it fixes some Windows specific issues.)

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I'd like to announce the availability of the third and final service release for the Spring Data release train named Codd. The release contains a lot of bug fixes that made it into the RC and GA releases of the Dijkstra release train already.

• Spring Data Commons 1.7.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.5.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.4.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.0.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.1.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.0.3 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
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We are pleased to announce the release of the Second Milestone of the Java DSL extension for Spring Integration!

The org.springframework.integration:spring-integration-java-dsl:1.0.0.M2 artifact is available from the Spring IO Milestone Repository.

Milestone 2 includes several bug fixes, some new features and further improvements.

Thank you to all who tried milestone 1, provided feedback, raised issues, and shared their thoughts.

Here is a summary of major changes since Milestone 1:

Lambda Handler

As you may have noticed, the use of Java 8 Lambdas is the power tool to make this DSL convenient and readable. One community request we received was to allow the declaration of a Lambda for the .handle() EIP-method instead of having to declare a POJO and use it as a method invocation. But one concern was to not lose "runtime type conversion". However, you can't get the generic type for Lambdas. After some investigation we found the solution by additing a type argument. Hence, several new methods have been added to the IntegrationFlowBuilder…