The second milestone release toward Spring Framework 3.2 is now available from the SpringSource repository. If you're not already familiar, see our quick tutorial on resolving these artifacts via Maven. The complete distribution zip is available as usual from the SpringSource community download site.

Be sure to catch up on the changes in 3.2 M1 if you haven't already.

Highlights from 3.2 M2 include:

• Asynchronous @Controller method support now complete (blog post)
• Many additional Spring MVC improvements, including plenty of REST support, e.g. content negotiation.
• Spring TestContext improvements
• Spring Expression Language (SpEL) improvements and fixes
• Overall, 45 bugs fixed, 11 new features and 58 improvements implemented.

A major area of focus for 3.2 is ensuring that Spring Framework runs flawlessly on JDK7. M2 artifacts have been built, tested and published against JDK7 and we continue to test JDK6 compatibility in nightly builds as well. We encourage all Spring users on JDK7 to give M2 a spin in your development and test environments and provide as much feedback as possible prior to 3.2 GA. Thanks!

Users of @Configuration classes and Spring's support for subclass proxies (proxy-target-class=true), please take note: it is now no longer necessary to add CGLIB as an explicit dependency to work with these features. As of 3.2 M2, we have upgraded to the new CGLIB 3.0. We repackage all net.sf.cglib classes to org.springframework.cglib and inline them directly within the spring-core JAR. This means that all @Configuration and subclass proxying functionality works out of the box in M2, and means no potential for CGLIB conflicts with other projects. Likewise, we have upgraded to the new ASM 4.0, which we continue to repackage and inline as we have done for quite some time now. Note however that we've eliminated the dedicated spring-asm jar in M2 in favor of including org.springframework.asm classes directly in spring-core. Both of these upgrades are good news for JDK7 users writing Spring components in dynamic JVM languages, as these new versions of CGLIB and ASM properly handle the new invokedynamic bytecode instruction introduced in JDK7.

Enjoy!

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Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce the release of Spring Social Facebook 1.0.2!

This release primarily adjusts Spring Social Facebook's API binding to some recent and upcoming changes in the Facebook Graph API. Specifically:

• The "picture" field of many objects in the Facebook's Graph API is changing from a simple string containing the URL to an object with additional information about the picture. Spring Social Facebook's API binding has been changed to handle either form and return the URL string.
• The "likes" field of the Graph API's Comment object has been renamed to "like_count". Spring Social Facebook's API binding has been changed to bind to the new "like_count" field.
• The picture property of Page, Post, and Video has been deprecated. While it will still return the URL string for a picture in 1.0.2, this property will be replaced in Spring Social Facebook 1.1.0 with one that returns an object with more complete metadata about the picture.
• The position property of the Photo object has been deprecated, as this property will no longer be populated by the Facebook Graph API. This property will be removed in Spring Social Facebook 1.1.0.

To get the software, download the release distribution or simply add/update the maven artifacts to your project:

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.social</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-social-facebook</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.2.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

We are continuing to monitor any changes that Facebook may apply in their graph API and if an adjustment in Spring Social Facebook's API binding is required, will release followup maintenance releases with those adjustments. We are also looking ahead to the 1.1.0 release of Spring Social, Spring Social Twitter, and Spring Social Facebook with some exciting new features in the coming months. We invite you to participate in the discussion in the Spring Social forum, in the issue tracker (Core|Facebook|Twitter), or at GitHub (Core|Facebook|Twitter).

#spring #batch 2.1.9.RELEASE is available (download github http://bit.ly/NYXItL or Maven central). Thanks to all contributors!

It's mostly bugfixes for 2.1.8, plus a few interesting additions (e.g. nested tasklets from any namespace to support Spring Hadoop): http://static.springsource.org/sprin...1.8-2.1.9.html.

The first real commit for 2.2 came in as a pull request. Nice work! Please keep them coming.

Dear Spring community, I am pleased to announce the next Spring Data release train stop, including Spring Data JPA, MongoDB, Neo4j, Gemfire as well as its foundation Spring Data Commons. The release is the final one before bringing all the modules into GA state of their next major version. Here are the highlights:

All modules

• Depend on Spring 3.1.2 by default. The modules are still fully compatible with Spring 3.0.7 but users have to manually declare Spring dependencies in they Maven pom.xml files if they'd like to use the older version. Note that some of the features included in this release (e.g. the usage of @EnableRepositories) require Spring 3.1.0 at least.
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Spring AMQP provides the familiar benefits of the Spring programming model to AMQP and, specifically, Rabbit MQ.

We are pleased to announce the availability of the 1.1.2 maintenance release of spring-amqp for Java, which includes a number of important bug fixes.

For more information, refer to the project home page.

Spring Integration 2.2.0.M4 - the fourth and final milestone release of the 2.2 stream, including a number of important features and improvements, is now available.

• Release notes are available here.
• Artifacts are available in the SpringSource repo and the community download page.

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

#spring #security #oauth 1.0.0.RC2 is released today http://bit.ly/xfE5PM. Download via github or Maven (SpringSource milestone repository).

Highlights:

• Better error responses from the framework endpoints
• Fixed some issues with validation and enhancement of token contents

Enjoy!

We're pleased to an announce the GA release of Spring Security 3.1.2

The release is available from the Spring Community Downloads area and jars are available from Maven central repository. See the project website for more information.

Special thanks to Chris Beams for all his help and guidance with updating the Spring Security build to use the Spring release process.

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I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Data REST 1.0.0.RC2! Beyond a number of bug fixes, this release adds support for JSONPE (JSONP with error handling), the ability to turn off CRUD methods with the @RestResource annotation, and is now built and tested against the Servlet 3.0 API (though it is not yet 3.0 specific, so will still work fine in Servlet 2.5 containers).

New functionality includes:

• JSONPE - Simply add a URL parameter to have the results wrapped in a call to the Javascript function you specify. Also handles server errors by translating an error to HTTP 200 and passing the original status code as the first parameter of your error handler.
• Turn off CRUD methods - The exporter now respects @RestResource annotations on CRUD methods. Just override the method from CrudRepository you want to turn off and annotate it with @RestResource(exported = false).
• Better integration with existing Spring MVC applications - Simplified the internal Spring MVC configuration to make it even easier to integrate with your existing Spring MVC application. Simply including the RepositoryRestMvcConfiguration bean into your own configuration should Just Work.

New or updated documentation includes:

• JSONP Support
• Configuring the REST URL path
• Adding Spring Data REST to an existing Spring MVC Application

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