Dear Spring community, I am pleased to announce the synced GA release of the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.4 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST Exporters 1.0 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation

There's a more detailled blog post over at the the SpringSource team blog to cover the content of the overall release, the future roadmap etc. Looking forward to your feedback!

We're please to announce the relase of Spring Security 2.0.8, 3.0.8, and 3.1.3 which fixes CVE-2012-5055 and brings Spring Security's open bugs to 0. The releases are available from the Spring Community Downloads area and jars are available from Maven central repository. See the project website for more information.

A special thanks to Nicholas Goodwin (@NGoody) for disclosing the issue and keeping it private until a fix could be pushed out.

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3.0.8: Changelog | Download | Reference Manual

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Dear Spring Community,

we are happy to announce the next major release of our Eclipse-based tooling today: The Spring Tool Suite (STS) 3.1.0 and the Groovy/Grails Tool Suite (GGTS) 3.1.0.

Highlights from this release include:

• Eclipse Juno SR1 updates (including Mylyn, EGit, m2e, m2e-wtp)
• Mac distributions now OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion Gatekeeper compatible
• updated to tc Server 2.7.2
• new Spring Data Gemfire project templates
• the new Live Beans Graph feature (experimental)
• grails import wizard
• support for mavenized grails projects
• updated to Groovy 2.0.4 and Grails 2.1.1

Some of our users reported general performance issues with the new Eclipse Juno 4.2 platform that STS 3.0.0 shipped with. Most of these issues seem to be related to the underlying UI platform and its usage from various plugins and extensions. Since our goal is to provide the best possible user experience, we decided to provide two separate distributions for STS 3.1.…

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first GA release for Spring Shell project! Spring Shell is an interactive shell that can be easily extended with commands using a Spring based programming model, extracted from the Spring Roo project.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

A second milestone of the Spring MVC Test project is now available through the SpringSource Artifactory repository http://repo.springsource.org/milestone.

There is much that's new. On the server side we've added support for servlet filters, basic support for Spring Security, the ability to define default request properties and expectations to re-use across every performed request, and much more. On the client side we've greatly expanded the options for request matching and response creation.

For further details and comments read this blog post.

Spring Integration 2.2.0.RC1 - the release candidate for the 2.2 stream, including a number of important features and improvements, is now available. Barring major issues, we expect to make the final release shortly, so users are encouraged to try out the new features, some of which are described here. Over the next week or so, we intend to release a number of blog posts highlighting some of these features and others.

• Release notes are available here. The issues listed there are closed, in addition to those in milestones 1 through 4.
• Artifacts are available in the SpringSource repo and the community download page.

More information is available on the project's home page.

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the first release candidate for Spring Shell project! Spring Shell is an interactive shell that can be easily extended with commands using a Spring based programming model, extracted from the Spring Roo project.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

This release contains various fixes related to JLine/Jansi. See the changelog for detailed info.

We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

Shortly before the Spring Data GA release train arrives, we would like to gather some feedback on fixes and updates in Spring Data - Neo4j. That's why we released an Release Candidate 4.

Here is a quick overview of the changes that made it into this release candidate, much longer than we intended to, but still very useful.

Changes in version 2.1.0.RC4 (2012-08-19)

• DATAGRAPH-296 Updates to stable versions of Neo4j 1.8.RC1, spatial, cypher-dsl and java-rest-binding, adopted to API changes
• DATAGRAPH-285 adding application events for save and delete
• DATAGRAPH-263, DATAGRAPH-212, DATAGRAPH-272, DATAGRAPH-147 refactored derived query creation, added support for multiple indexed fields and all query keywords
• DATAGRAPH-294 derived finder methods for numerically indexed values
• DATAGRAPH-293 find objects by graph-id
• DATAGRAPH-275 non graceful fallback on empty graph for TypeRepresentationStrategyFactory
• DATAGRAPH-246 allowing entity as parameter to derived finders
• DATAGRAPH-281 Added support for Enums and Dates as parameters to Cypher

Just point your dependency version to 2.1.0.RC4. For now the online resources have not been updated due to manual effort and time constraints. Those will be available for the 2.1.0.RELEASE.

I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Data REST 1.0.0.RC3! This release includes a significant number of bug fixes, changes to the structure of the JSON representation, better integration of user-defined Jackson Modules that are bootstrapped into the internal ObjectMapper, as well integration with Spring HATEOAS. Also included in this release is support for extending the resource representation (e.g. to add links to other, related resources) using the Spring HATEOAS ResourceProcessor abstraction.

New functionality includes:

• JSON output looks different in an effort to make property names consistent and structure clearer.
• Pulls in any Jackson Module beans discovered and integrates user configuration with internal ObjectMapper.
• Integration with Spring HATEOAS - Customize the outgoing JSON by adding or removing links or otherwise altering the resource.

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To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data REST homepage, or visit the Github repository…