Dear Spring community,

It's my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.0.4 is now available. This is a straightforward maintenance release after 4.0.3, primarily fixing regressions and other recent bugs. It also comes with a range of minor dependency updates (including ASM 5.0.2).

http://projects.spring.io/spring-framework/

Aside from working towards our 4.1 release in July, we intend to do a 4.0.5 & 3.2.9 pair of releases in late May. Both of the latter are the last planned releases in the respective line. So if you have any critical bug reports to consider for those branches still…

Spring Boot 1.0.2.RELEASE is available now in the Spring and Maven Central repositories. This is mostly a bug-fix release (nothing major, but please upgrade if you are using an older version). There are also a couple of nice new features.

My favourite additions are the new @IntegrationTest features. Here's an example:

@RunWith(SpringJUnit4ClassRunner.class)
@SpringApplicationConfiguration(classes = SampleActuatorApplication.class)
@WebAppConfiguration
@IntegrationTest("server.port=0")
public class SampleActuatorApplicationTests {

	@Value("${local.server.port}")
	private int port…

Dear Spring Community,

I'm very happy to announce the general availability of Spring Social 1.1.0. Along with the release of the core Spring Social project, Spring Social Facebook 1.1.0, Spring Social Twitter 1.1.0, and Spring Social LinkedIn 1.0.0 are also now available.

These releases include several new features, including:

• Simplified Java and XML configuration support
• A new ReconnectFilter to automatically reestablish a connection when a token has expired or been revoked
• Updated API bindings for Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
• A generic connection factory for APIs where there is not (yet) connection framework support
• Tighter Spring Security integration, including SocialAuthenticationFilter for provider-based sign-in
• Thymeleaf template support
• Updated documentation
• ...and much more...
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Spring Security OAuth 2.0.0.RC1 is available now from the Spring Repo. This is a huge step in the direction of modernisation and ease of use for OAuth server and client apps on Spring.

The headline feature is support for @Configuration(for OAuth2 only) and if you use Spring Boot to write your app you can serve tokens and protect the API resources in about 25 lines of code:

@Configuration
@EnableAutoConfiguration
@EnableResourceServer
@RestController
public class Application {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		SpringApplication.run(Application.class, args…

The Spring XD team is pleased to announce that Spring XD Milestone 6 is now available for download.

This is our biggest release yet! The team has been hard at work, and Milestone 6 contains a wealth of new features that meet enterprise requirements in terms of reliability, performance, and user experience. Below is a quick Top Ten (in no particular order), but if you checkout the release notes you will realize how difficult it is to pick out 10 from the list of 299.

• Distributed and Fault Tolerant Runtime: Leader election among multiple xd-admin servers and automatic redeployment of modules to other xd-containers in the case of failure. ZooKeeper is introduced to manage the cluster and its deployment state.

• Support for running XD on YARN: Run admin and container nodes on a Hadoop YARN cluster rather than on VMs or physical servers that you need to manage. There are simple configuration and shell scripts that make this process very easy.

• Deployment Manifests: When deploying a stream you can provide a deployment manifest that describes how to transform the logical stream definition (e.g. http | hdfs) to a physical deployment on the cluster. You can specify the number of instances of each module to deploy and also a criteria expression (using SpEL) that evaluates each of the available containers in the cluster to determine the best matches for those module instances. This will be an area of active development for the next release as we extend the manifest to include support for data partitioning strategies.

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I am happy to announce the second service release of the Spring Data release train named Codd. The full list of participating modules looks as follows:

• Spring Data Commons 1.7.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.5.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.4.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.0.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.0.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
…

We are pleased to announce that the Spring Integration 4.0 release candidate (4.0.0.RC1) is now available. Please use the Milestone Repository with maven or gradle, download a distribution archive, or see the project home page for links to the updated documentation, and Maven/Gradle configuration details.

The release includes several bug fixes, some new features and further improvements with the GA release due near the end of April.

Here is a summary of major changes since the last milestone

@Poller and @InboundChannelAdapter

Building on the extensive improvements to annotation support announced in M4 Release, the new @Poller annotation has been added to each of the Messaging Annotations (@ServiceActivator, @Router etc.). The @Poller annotation attribute enables configuration of poller options for the inputChannel of the Messaging Annotation. This allows annotated endpoints to be PollingConsumers. Previously, annotated endpoints could only use SubscribableChannel…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch 2.2.6.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the SpringSource download repository. This is the 6th maintenance release for the 2.2.x branch of Spring Batch and addresses a number of bugs, a few minor enhancements, and documentation updates. 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.

Spring Boot 1.0.1.RELEASE is available in Maven Central and the repo.spring.io repository. This is a bug fix release, although a couple of new features have been added:

• MessageSource caching can be specified in application.properties
• ActiveMQ connection credentials can be externalized to application.properties
• There is a new section on Security auto configuration in the reference guide

There was a security bug-fix for the Actuator, so anyone using Spring Security and the Actuator endpoints should upgrade. No backwards compatibility problems or changes to existing functionality are…