We're happy to announce that Spring Mobile 1.1.1 is now available. This is a maintenance release that primarily addresses an issue where some Samsung tablets were being incorrectly resolved as mobile devices. Additional testing was also added for Windows 8 and newer versions of iOS. This release is built against Spring Framework 3.2.8, and has been tested against Spring Framework 4.0.2. See the changelog for more information.

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of Spring Data Redis 1.2.0! We raised the minimum Spring version to 3.2.8. This release is tested against Redis 2.6 and current 2.8 as well as the latest version of Spring Framework 4.0.2. It introduces a set of bug fixes as well as some improvements like support Jackson 2 serialization, a transaction aware cache manager, support for the TIME command and upgrades of the Redis drivers.

For a complete list of changes please see this JIRA query. The next step will be RC2 scheduled for March. We’re looking forward to your feedback on Twitter or in the issue tracker…

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring LDAP 2.0.1. This release can be found in Maven Central and contains a number of bug fixes including a fix to work with Spring Security 3.2. For additional details, please see the changelog.

Spring Framework 4.0.2 and 3.2.8 have been released and are now available from Maven Central and repo.spring.io.

We have brought forward both releases due to SPR-11376 which strengthens Spring OXM to protect against a XXE vulnerability.

For a complete list of changes please refer to JIRA

I am happy to announce the availability of the third service release of the Spring Data Babbage release train. The release includes the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.6.4 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data JPA 1.4.4 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.3.4 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.3.4 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts

The release bundles a bunch of important enhancements and bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade. You can find all issues fixed in this release in our JIRA.

An important addition to the release is the release train BOM that allows you to easily upgrade to the service release by including the following dependency into your…

The second release candidate for Spring Boot 1.0.0 has now been released and published to the Spring Maven Repository.

UPDATE: We have released 1.0.0.RC3 earlier than expected to address an unfortunate regression with RC2. Please use RC3 in preference to RC2.

This release incorporates over 40 improvements and fixes. If you are upgrading from RC1, you may need to change some of your import declarations as we have restructured a few packages with this release.

As well as bug fixes, there are a couple of new noteworthy features:

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Users of the spring CLI application can now generate executable JARs directly from .groovy scripts. Simply run spring jar…

On behalf of the development team around Mohsin Husen at BioMed Central I am happy to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data Elasticsearch community module.

The release of the module implements the well-known Spring Data programming model on top of Elasticsearch includes support for dynamic mapping (nested type, object, parent child), index and search API, facets, highlighting, aliasing, more-like-this, scan & scroll etc.

From a Spring Data perspective this release features support for templates, repositories, CDI, Java and XML-style configuration. Entities will be automatically…

We are pleased to announce the Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0 M5 milestone releases. We are moving closer to a release candidate, so this is a good time to highlight what is new in this 2.0 version and how it compares to 1.0.

Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0 primarily targets using HDFS and MapReduce with either MapReduce v1 or MapReduce v2 (YARN). The default distribution is Apache Hadoop 1.2.1 with additional "flavors" provided for other distributions: Hadoop 2.2.0, Pivotal HD 1.1, Cloudera CDH4 MR1 or MR2 YARN and Hortonworks HDP 1.3.

The main focus for Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0 is to add YARN…

On behalf of Michael Nitschinger I'm pleased to announce the availability of the first release candidate of the Spring Data module for Couchbase.

The highlights of this release are (usual bugfixes and stability improvements aside) the support for custom repository queries backed by views, the possibility to customize view queries through the @View annotation and @Version support on entities for optimistic locking. Also - when XML configs are used - the beans can now be configured through SpEL expressions. This RC1 release is available from the Spring IO milestone repository. The complete changelog can be found here…