If you are building microservices with Spring you will be interested to see that Spring Cloud 1.0.0.M2 hit the streets yesterday and today, and can now be found in the Spring repository. Visit the individual project pages links in the main umbrella page or look at their github repositories for detailed instructions about how to get started using the individual components. There is also a Reference Guide covering the core modules.

Since Spring Cloud is an umbrella project we have a "release train" of related updates to all the sub-projects (like with Spring Data). The 1.0.0.M2 release has updates to spring Cloud Config, Spring Cloud Netflix, Spring Cloud Bus, Spring Cloud Security and Spring Cloud CLI…

We are pleased to announce that Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.3 has just been released and is now available from Maven Central and the Spring Repository. This release includes some bug fixes and updates some dependency versions. The dependencies are updated to match the next 1.0.3 release of the Spring IO platform. More details can be found in the changelog or in the JIRA release notes.

In this release, we are adding support for Apache Hadoop 2.5.1 (hadoop25) and Pivotal HD 2.1 (phd21).

Here is a complete list of the latest version designation to use for the various distro "flavors" published. The Apache Hadoop releases are available in Maven Central and all other releases are available in the Spring Repository…

On behalf of the Spring Data team I am pleased to announce the availability of the first service release of the Evans release train. The team around the participating modules completed 41 issues including serveral bug fixes. We want to thank everyone for taking the time to report, volunteer fixing and testing those issues - this is invaluable feedback we could not do without!

The release includes the following 11 modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.9.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.7.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.3.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that soon after the Spring Integration 4.1 Release Candidate the Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0 Release Candidate is now available. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

See the project home page for more information.

The release includes many new features and improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes. The GA release is planned for the middle of November.

Here is a summary of major changes since the last milestone:

Refactoring and Breaking Changes

While still supporting earlier Java versions, the Spring Integration Java DSL is primarily positioned for Java 8 and its Lambda support. We have removed several functional interfaces in favor of similar interfaces from Java 8: Consumer<T>, Function<T, R> etc. Of course, to support backward…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 3.0.2.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the SpringSource download repository. This is the 2nd maintenance release for the 3.0.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of bugs and a few minor enhancements. 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.

Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration 4.1 Release Candidate is available. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, or download a distribution archive, to give it a spin.

The release includes many new features and improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes. The GA release is planned in early November.

First of all, thank you all who provided feedback for the 4.1 Milestone 1 and submitted reports (bugs or new features). A special thanks to those who provided contribution via Pull Requests. Here is a summary of major changes since…

We are pleased to announce the availability of the Release Candidate for Spring AMQP 1.4; the GA is planned to be released in early November.

First of all, thank you all who provided feedback for the milestone 1.4 M1 version and submitted reports (bugs or new features). Special thanks to Stéphane Nicoll, who had introduced annotation-based message listeners (@RabbitListener) and the new RabbitMessagingTemplate.

Features and fixes included in this release (changes since the milestone)

• With the annotation-based message listener you can use the @SendTo annotation to send the result of the method as a reply message (when there's no replyTo in the inbound message):
…

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first milestone release of Spring Sync 1.0.0.

Spring Sync enables efficient communication and synchronization of data between clients and Spring-based servers.

The release dependency is available in the repo.spring.io milestone repository at the dependency coordinates of "org.springframework.sync:spring-sync:1.0.0.M1".

This release includes:

• A patch abstraction for calculating differences and applying patches between Java objects.
• Support for representing patches as JSON Patch.
• An implementation of Differential Synchronization for creating and applying patches in a controlled manner.
• DiffSyncController, a Spring MVC controller that handles HTTP request of type application/patch-json+patch and performing Differential Synchronization against a resource.
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Dear Spring Community,

I am happy to announce the new release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.6.2 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.6.2.

This is a maintenance release that updates STS/GGTS to the just released Eclipse Luna SR1 release. This includes a number of fixes across the various projects that are included in the STS distribution, together with fixes for the Java8 compiler and tooling in Eclipse.

To download the distributions, please go visit:

• Spring Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/sts/all
• Groovy/Grails Tool Suite: https://spring.io/tools/ggts/all

NOTE: Both tool suites ship on top of the latest Eclipse Luna 4.4 SR1 release as 64bit and 32bit…