Spring Web Flow 2.3 is now available for download. You can review what's new in the reference documentation, see the complete changelog, or download the release.

A few of the highlights include:

• Launching a flow in a page embedded mode.
• JSR-303 bean validation support.
• Propagation of a flow-managed persistence context to sub-flows.
• Support for partial rendering with Portlet resource requests.

Dear Spring Community,

We're pleased to announce that we just released a service refresh for 2.5.2 as well as the second milestone build for the next release of the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS).

The service refresh for STS 2.5.2 includes:

• Update to Spring Roo 1.1.2 (including UAA update)
• Update to Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2)
• Some backported Spring IDE bugfixes
• Update to Groovy 1.7.8
• Update to Grails 1.3.7

Some highlights from the new 2.6.0.M2 milestone:

• Update to Spring Roo 1.1.2 (including UAA update)
• Update to Eclipse Helios SR2 (3.6.2)
• Update to Groovy 1.7.8
• Update to Grails 1.3.7
• A Roo Plugin Manager
• Improved support for @RequestMapping (including refactoring, content-assist and quickfix)
• Tons of improvements for Groovy-Eclipse and Grails tooling

More details on new features and bug fixes can be found in the 2.6.0.M2 New and Noteworthy document. Detailed installation instructions are also available.

As always downloads are available from the STS download page.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the second milestone release of the Spring Social project is now available!

The Spring Social project allows you to integrate the APIs exposed by Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers such as Facebook and Twitter into your applications. The 1.0.0.M2 release includes:

• An extensible service provider framework that greatly simplifies the process of connecting local user accounts to hosted provider accounts.
• Full support for connecting to OAuth1 and OAuth2-based service providers from a Java/Spring web application environment.
• The ability for your users to authenticate with your application by signing in with their Twitter or Facebook accounts.
• Expanded service provider APIs, including more Twitter operations and initial support for GitHub and Gowalla.
• Complete reference documentation and samples!

See the changelog and reference guide for more information.

To get the software, download the release distribution, or simply add the maven artifacts to your project. To see the features live, check out the showcase app:
git clone git://github.com/SpringSource/spring-social-samples.git

We've been getting some great feedback from the Spring community about Spring Social and encourage you to collaborate with us on the project. If you are developing your own Java Binding to a SaaS API for use in your applications, be sure to checkout how to extend the framework and consider contributing your extensions back to the community!

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that a new milestone release (1.0.0.M3) of the Spring Data Graph 1.0 project with Neo4j support is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

The Graph Neo4j module provides integration with the Neo4j graph database.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Neo4j Homepage.

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Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce that the very first milestone release of the Spring Data Document 1.0 project with MongoDB support is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

The MongoDB module provides integration with the MongoDB document database.

Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog

To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Data Homepage.

The…

The first milestone of Spring 3.1 is now available from our http://maven.springframework.org/milestone Maven repository or for direct download from our community download page. This release includes new features such as:

• Bean definition profiles
• Enhancements to Java-based container configuration
• Caching abstraction
• new c: XML namespace
• Improvements to Spring MVC

Stay tuned to the SpringSource Blog over the coming week for a series of posts covering what's new in 3.1.0.M1.

Download | Documentation | Javadoc API | Change Log | JIRA

Don't forget that Spring users can ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well.

Dear Spring Community,

we are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of the Spring Data JPA project is now available! The release includes:

• Merge of the Hades open-source library into Spring Data
• Sophisticated support to build repositories based on Spring and JPA
• Transparent auditing of domain class
• Pagination support, dynamic query execution, ability to integrate custom data access code

<dependency>
    <groupId>org.springframework.data</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-data-jpa</artifactId>
    <version>1.0.0.M1</version>
</dependency>

<repository>
    <id>org.springframework.maven.milestone</id>
    <name>Spring Maven Milestone Repository</name>
    <url>http://maven.springframework.org/milestone</url>
</repository>

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There are also two sample projects to play with on GitHub.

Looking forward to your feedback in the forums or the issuetracker.

Dear Spring Community,

I am pleased to announce the second milestone release of the Spring Data Key Value 1.0 project, with support for Redis and Riak, is now available!

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This release introduces several new features for both Redis and Riak, such as:

• [Redis] Pubsub support (such as a MessageListenerContainer for message-driven POJOs)
• [Redis] JSON and Spring Object/XML mapping serializers
• [Redis] Full support for upcoming Redis 2.2
• [Redis] Sorting and Pipelining functionality
• [Riak] Asynchronous RiakTemplate
• [Riak] Dedicated Groovy DSL for asynchronous Riak access

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

Dear Spring Community,

I'm pleased to announce that the 1.5.0.M2 milestone release of Spring BlazeDS Integration, the open source solution for building Spring-powered RIAs with Adobe Flex, is now available.

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Highlights of the significant new features and enhancements in this release include:

• Support for reading and writing AMF content with RESTful Spring MVC @Controllers. This serves as a nice alternative to the direct RPC approach of the Remoting Service, reducing duplication of effort in applications that need to support multiple client types. (See the updated Test Drive for usage examples.)
  
  
• A major refactoring of the Spring Security 3 support, resulting in easier integration of Flex apps with various Spring Security features such as Remember Me, Session Fixation Protection, and Concurrent Session Control.
  
  
• Further evolution of the Hibernate serialization support introduced in 1.5.0.M1, including the option to use direct field mapping instead of property-based mapping.
  
  
• Easier customization and namespace-supported configuration of framework-provided services such as the LoginCommand and MessageInterceptors.
  
  
• Upgraded compatibility with Spring Integration 2.0.x
  
  
• A complete revision of the Maven-based Test Drive samples, including an update across the board to use Flex 4, and a brand new sample to demonstrate the RESTful programming model.

One additional item to note is that the Flex Addon for Spring Roo is no longer part of the project distribution. Instead, version 1.0.0.M2 of the Flex Addon will be released separately in the coming weeks and will be available to Spring Roo 1.1.1 users through Roo's Addon Discovery mechanism. If you'd like to try out the nightly builds of the Flex Addon (which are necessary for compatibility with Roo 1.1 and above), I encourage you to reach out to the community for guidance.

As always, I encourage anyone interested to get involved by trying out the release and giving us feedback in the community forum and Jira, as we are fast approaching 1.5.0.RC1. We continually get great feedback from people having success with Spring BlazeDS Integration in their projects, and we look forward to hearing more about your experiences.

Jeremy Grelle
Spring Flex Lead