We are happy to announce the first release candidate of the Spring Data release train Evans. We ship the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.9 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.7 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.2 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.3 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.2 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.1 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.1 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

We are pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.1.5 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release addresses a number of issues and is a recommended upgrade for all Spring Boot users. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

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I'm pleased to announce the second milestone release of Spring MVC Test HtmlUnit.

The project’s aim is to provide integration between [Spring MVC Test](Spring MVC Test Framework) and HtmlUnit. This simplifies performing end to end testing when using HTML based views.

Changelog

You can view the complete changelog on github. Below are the highlights of the release:

• The release contains Reference Documentation and Publishes the API Docs
• The artifact name has changed from spring-test-mvc-htmlunit to spring-test-htmlunit See the Updating Dependencies to see how to add Spring MVC Test HtmlUnit as either a Maven or Gradle dependency
• The project name has been changed to Spring MVC Test HtmlUnit in order to better align with Spring MVC Test's name
• Context root of "" is now supported
• Support for external resources has been added. See the javadoc of DelegatingWebConnection for additional details.
• Bug fixes
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On behalf of the Spring XD team, I am very pleased to announce the general availability of Spring XD 1.0! You can download the zip distribution. You can also install on OSX using homebrew and on RHEL/CentOs using yum.

Spring XD's goal is to be your one stop shop for developing and deploying Big Data Applications. Such applications require a wide range of technologies to address different use-cases while interoperating as a cohesive process. The steps in this process include:

• Data collection
• Real-time streaming and analytics
• Data cleansing
• Batch processing (both on and off Hadoop)
• Machine learning and exploratory data analysis
• Visualization and Reporting
• Closed loop analytics between real-time and batch processing
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On behalf of the Spring Data team I am pleased to announce the availability of the second service release of the Dijkstra release train. It includes 49 fixes overall for the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.8.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.6.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.5.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.2.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.0.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.0.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

We are pleased to announce that Spring Batch Admin 1.3.0.RELEASE is now available via Maven Central, Github and the SpringSource download repository. This release provides updates to Spring Batch Admin to make it compatible with Spring Batch 2.2.x and beyond. In addition to the minor functional updates, this release also provides an overall update to third party dependencies. As noted previously, this will be the last major version with the spring-batch-integration module included as it has been moved to Spring Batch as of Spring Batch 3.0. As always, we look forward to your feedback in…

Dear Spring community,

It's my pleasure to announce that the first Spring Framework 4.1 release candidate is available now. Our 4.1 delivers a wide range of new features along the following themes:

Annotated JMS listener methods and support for JMS 2.0's shared subscriptions

The Spring XD team is pleased to announce that Spring XD Release Candidate 1 is now available for download. You can also install Spring XD on OSX using homebrew and on RHEL/CentOs using yum.

Dear Spring Community,