I am pleased to announce that Spring for Android 2.0.0.M1 is now available in the Spring milestone repository. Highlights include:

• Generics support through the use of ParameterizedTypeReference
• Support for OkHttp via OkHttpRequestFactory
• RestTemplate API parity with Spring Framework
• Bug fixes and improvements

Minimum Version

This release raises the minimum version from Android 2.1 (API level 7) to Android 2.2 (API level 8). The Google Play Store app is no longer supported on Android 2.1 and that version is not being tracked on the Android developer Dashboards. Additionally, OkHttp is only…

On behalf of the entire Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the general availability of the Spring Data release train iteration called Evans. The release ships 11 modules to help you build sophisticated data access layers on top of relational and non-relational data stores.

The major themes of this iteration were:

• Upgrade Spring baseline to 4.0
• Support for top and first as keywords in derived queries
• Support for MongoDB 2.6 features like text search
• SpEL support for Spring Data JPA (Spring Security integration)
• Redis Sentinel support
• ALPS and excerpt projections for Spring Data REST
• Support for custom implementations in the CDI extension
• Improved multi-store configuration
• Asciidoctor for reference documentation
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I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.2.0.M1 is available now in the Spring milestone repository. This release builds on Spring Framework 4.1 and provides a number of improvements and new features. Highlights include:

• Support for distributed JTA transactions across multiple XA resources using either an Atomkos or Bitronix embedded transaction manager or a full Java EE Application Server.
• Easier configuration of JNDI bound DataSource and ConnectionFactory beans.
• Improved JMS support, including auto-configuration for the Spring Framework 4.1 @EnableJms annotation.
• Auto-configuration support for spring-cloud.
• Easier SSL configuration for both Tomcat and Jetty.
• Improved DataSource Metrics and Health Indicators.
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We are pleased to announce the latest maintenance 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:

• Reactor 1.1.4
• Reactor Spring 1.1.3
• Spring AMQP 1.3.6
• Spring Boot 1.1.6
• Spring Data Dijkstra SR4
• Spring Framework 4.0.7
• Spring Integration 4.0.4
• Spring Security 3.2.5
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.3
• Spring Web Flow 2.4.1

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

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We are pleased to announce that the Java DSL for Spring Integration 1.0 Milestone 3 has been released. Please use the Milestone Repository with Maven or Gradle, download a distribution archive, or see the project home page for more information.

Since the last Milestone 2, some new features and further improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes have been included to this Milestone, with the GA release due around the end of October.

First of all thanks for all who are interested in this Spring Integration Extension, provide feedback, share their thoughts and even contribute.

Here is…

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring AMQP 1.4 is now available.

##Key Features

• Annotation-based message listeners (@RabbitListener), enabled with either @EnableRabbit or <rabbit:annotation-driven /> (see below for an example).
• RabbitMessagingTemplate allowing interaction with RabbitMQ using spring-messaging Message objects.
• A new factory bean to ease the configuration of SSL with the RabbitConnectionFactory
• Log4j Appender now supports configuration of message persistence.

Here is a simple example for a POJO service using the new annotations:

public static class…

We are pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.1.6 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release closes almost 50 reported 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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Dear Spring community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring Integration 4.1 Milestone 1 has been released. 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 some new features and further improvements, as well as a number of bug fixes, with the GA release due around the end of October.

Here is a summary of major changes:

Spring Framework 4.1

Spring Integration takes advantage of a number of new features in Spring…

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that after an intense release candidate phase, the Spring Framework 4.1 GA release is now available!

Our 4.1 generation delivers major new features along several themes:

• Annotated JMS listener methods
• Comprehensive support for JCache (JSR-107) annotations
• Flexible resolution and transformation of static web resources
• MVC views: declarative resolution, Groovy markup templates, Jackson's JsonView
• WebSocket refinements: WebSocket scope, SockJS client support, WebSocket stats
• Performance: SpEL compiler mode, concurrency fine-tuning across the container
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