I am pleased to announce that the second release candidate for Spring Boot 1.2.0 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This is mainly a bug fix release, although we did manage to sneak in a fantastic community contribution which adds support for Undertow as an embedded Servlet container.

For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation has also been updated to cover new features.

As usual, please report any problems using the project Issue tracker.

On behalf of the Spring Roo team, I am pleased to announce the release of Spring Roo 1.3.0, the first version released by DISID Corporation as project lead.

Spring Roo is a rapid application development tool for Java, allowing you to create full web enterprise applications in just minutes.

This is the first time that Spring Roo jar files have been published to Maven Central! As always, the release is available in the Spring IO repository.

The 1.3.0 release includes bug fixes and enhancements as well as several new features:

• Now Roo has complete support for JDK 8:
  • run Spring Roo with JDK 8

  • run generated applications with JDK 8
• Update Felix to 4.4.1

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the Release Notes in Jira

For more project specific information please see the Project Page | GitHub

Please try out the updates and provide feedback.

As always, you’ll also find Roo on Twitter - either follow @SpringRoo or just include #SpringRoo in your tweets. The next version 2.0 will be amazing, the best is coming up. Stay tuned!

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Session 1.0.0.RC1.

For full details on the changes made in the release, please refer to the changelog. The highlights of this release include:

• WebSocket support. See the websocket sample for details.
• Support for multiple simultaneous sessions in a single browser. Refer to the users sample for an example.
• Simplified configuration with @EnableRedisHttpSession and AbstractHttpSessionApplicationInitializer
• Support for background task to cleanup expired Redis sessions. See spring-session/gh-59
• Added spring-session-data-redis pom to make declaring dependencies more concise.
• Hazelcast Sample
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We are pleased to announce the second milestone release of Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.1. The release is now available in the Spring IO repository

There are lots of version upgrades for the 2.1.0.M2 release: Spring Framework 4.1.2, Spring Boot 1.2.0.RC1 and more. See the full changelog for more details.

We updated the Kite SDK dataset support to 0.17.0 and this means there are some changes to the API. The use of a namespace in addition to the basePath is now mandatory. The DatasetTemplate now also uses ViewCallbacks instead of a partition expression for querying the data.

Beginning with the…

We are pleased to announce that the latest maintenance release, 1.0.3.RELEASE, of Spring IO Platform is now 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:

• Groovy 2.3.7
• Reactor 1.1.5
• Spring AMQP 1.3.7
• Spring Batch 3.0.2
• Spring Boot 1.1.9
• Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.3
• Spring Framework 4.0.8
• Spring Integration 4.0.5
• Spring Mobile 1.1.3
• Spring Retry 1.1.2
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.4

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

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | …

Spring Boot 1.1.9 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a number of fixes and third-party dependency updates.

This release also upgrades to the latest Spring Framework, which includes an important security patch; as such it is highly recommended that all Spring Boot users upgrade.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation

I am pleased to announce that the first release candidate for Spring Boot 1.2.0 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release adds a number of improvements and new features over M2. Highlights include:

• Tomcat 8 or Jetty 9 as the default embedded servlet container (providing Servlet 3.1 support).
• A new @SpringBootApplication annotation.
• Access to start.spring.io using the spring init CLI command.
• Email support including a new spring-boot-starter-mail "starter POM".
• Additional health and metrics endpoints.

For a complete list of changes, and for upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.2 Release Notes on the WIKI. The reference documentation…

Dear Spring community,

It's my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Spring Framework 4.1.2, accompanied by 4.0.8 and 3.2.12 maintenance releases.

Spring Framework 4.1.2 is our second maintenance release in the 4.1.x line but also comes as a key feature release, including many user-suggested and user-contributed improvements: in total, more than one hundred issues have been addressed. 4.1.2 also serves as the core framework release to go into Spring Boot 1.2 which is just around the corner...

-> List of resolved JIRA issues for Spring Framework 4.1.2

Note that aside from fixing…

Spring Security OAuth 2.0.4.RELEASE is available now in the usual repositories. It's a bug fix release, so upgrading is recommended, but there is also a small set of new features:

• The OAuth2Request (and hence OAuth2Authentication) can now be

queried explicitly to find the grant type for the associated token. If the token is being refreshed the grant type in the OAuth2Request presented to a TokenEnhancer is the original grant type, not "refresh_token".

• The client authorities are exposed in the "/check_token" endpoint

• Password grants are more flexible and open to extension because both client and server can add additional parameters to the request. A custom AuthenticationManager on the server side should still expect a UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken, but the additional parameters will be available in the AuthenticationDetails. Multi-factor authentication for mobile devices could be implemented in this way, for instance.

• Keystore support for JWT token signing and verification.

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