Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that the first milestone release of Spring Social 1.0 is now available!

Spring Social enables development of social-ready applications, linking your application's users to the social networks where they hang out. What's more the capabilities of Spring Social are illustrated by the Greenhouse reference application.

Spring Social 1.0.0-M1 contains the following core features:

• Social templates for interaction with Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, TripIt, and Greenhouse
• An OAuth-enabled connection factory for signing RestTemplate requests with OAuth authentication details
• A web argument resolver for extracting Facebook user ID and access token information in a Spring MVC controller

To get you started, I've posted Socializing Spring Applications, an introduction to Spring Social.

This milestone release is just the beginning. We look forward to your feedback to help us shape Spring Social.

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Lost somewhere in all the news and excitement about last week's SpringOne 2GX conference was the news that Spring 3.0.5 is now available. This release addresses over 80 minor issues and includes some small improvements to the Spring Expression Language (SpEL), annotation support, and embedded databases. Be sure to read the Change Log for all the details.

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

Dear community,

We're pleased to announce that Spring ActionScript 1.1 is now available.

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Besides a series of bugfixes, this release adds the following new features and enhancements:

• Component Scanning & Context XML Namespace
• Test Framework
• PostConstruct, PreDestroy and Inject Metadata

Details about the release are include in the Spring ActionScript blog. Community members can always ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well.

We're pleased to an announce the release of Spring Security 3.0.4.

This release provides a fix for the vulnerability CVE-2010-3700. A 2.0.6 release has also been provided for users who have not yet to upgraded to Spring Security 3.

Please see the changelog for a full list of issues which have been addressed.

Both releases are available from the Spring Community Downloads area and also from the Maven Central repository.

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SpringSource has just released a new milestone version of SpringSource Tool Suite: 2.5.0.RC1. STS provides the best Eclipse-powered development environment for building Spring and Grails powered enterprise applications.

The release comes only a few hours after we pushed Spring Roo 1.1.0.RC1. STS 2.5.0.RC1 certainly supports the new Roo version and comes with lots of improvements in the Roo and GWT support.

This is also the first time we are providing bundles based on Eclipse 3.6.1. If you aren't quite ready to try the cutting edge milestone release, then you can always download the 2.3.…

Dear community,

We're pleased to announce that Spring ActionScript 1.0 is now available.

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Spring ActionScript is an offshoot of the Java Spring Framework written in ActionScript 3.0. The framework contains the following core features:

• Inversion of Control container, configurable with XML or MXML
• EventBus supporting loose communication between application components
• Metadata/annotation processing used for autowiring, event handling, ...
• Operation, Command and Task API
• Utilities for abstracting server communication
• Support for Modules
• Extensions for the Cairngorm and PureMVC frameworks

The Spring Actionscript team would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who took the time to report bugs, give suggestions and help out in any other kind of way. Without the dedicated Spring community behind us, the framework would not be where it is today. Thank all of you!

As always, we're on the look out for new members to join the team. If…

Building on the JSF 2 support in M1 this release features:

• JSF 2 Spring Travel sample built with PrimeFaces components.
• A Facelets tag library for the popular Spring Security framework including an <authorize> tag and several EL functions.
• A working Portlet 2.0 and JSF 1.2 sample that builds on Web Flow's own Portlet support (i.e. without any Portlet Bridge for JSF dependencies).
• Spring JavaScript jar split into two artifacts: one for Java and one for non-Java resources (css, .js).
• Upgarde to dojo 1.5 and inclusion of dojox in the bundled custom build.

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Note that documentation is not yet updated. Please use the sample code provided with the distribution and the comments in the appropriate JIRA tickets.

Great news for everyone interested in advanced, scalable, enterprise and cloud messaging! The RabbitMQ team has just released a brand new version, RabbitMQ 2.0, of their popular messaging server. The release includes an all new scalable storage engine, native support for multi-protocol messaging, improvements to plugin distribution and much more.

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Spring Community members can use the new Spring AMQP project for both Java and .NET connectivity to RabbitMQ. RabbitMQ and Spring AMQP will be among the incredible technical content featured at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago, October 19th-21st. Be sure to register now to lock in an early registration discount.

Arjen Poutsma has just announced that Spring 3.0.4 is now available. This release addresses over 80 minor issues and updates Spring's support for some recent third-party releases including Hibernate Core 3.6, Hibernate Validator 4.1, EclipseLink 2.1, and EHCache 2.2.

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All the latest features for Spring as well as advanced technical sessions and roadmap discussion will be happening at SpringOne 2GX 2010 in Chicago, October 19th-21st. Be sure to register now to lock in an early registration discount.

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