We are happy to announce the first GA release (1.0) for Spring for Apache Hadoop, almost one year to the date from the release of its first milestone release. During that time we have incorporated a great deal of your feedback to drive the road-map, so thanks everyone from the community who have helped! While new features have been added over the year, the goal of Spring for Apache Hadoop remains the same, to simplify the development of Hadoop based applications. Download it now, or view the maven artifacts here.   Spring for Apache Hadoop provides a consistent programming and configuration…

Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the second, and last planned, release candidate, 1.0 RC2 for Spring for Apache Hadoop: Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog RC2 provides bug fixes and improvements and enhances the overall usability: For the full list of changes, refer to the changelog. For more information on Spring for Apache Hadoop, see the project home page for reference documentation and the sample applications. For a quick introduction to Spring for Apache Hadoop, see this or the reference…

Dear Spring Community, Just in time for SpringOne2GX 2012, I am pleased to announce the GA release of Spring Data Redis 1.0.2 project! Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog Spring Data Redis 1.0.2 is a maintenance release providing several enhancements: For more information about Spring Data Redis please see the home page for a live sample and webinar recording. We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community, In time for SpringOne2GX 2012, I am pleased to announce the first release candidate, 1.0 RC1 for Spring for Apache Hadoop: Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog RC1 provides important bug fixes and enhancements and introduces new features such as: For more information on Spring for Apache Hadoop, see the project home page for reference documentation and the sample applications. Moreover, you are invited to the upcoming webinar, "Introducing Spring for Apache Hadoop" scheduled for November 8th. We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the…

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.

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.

Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the first milestone release of 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 For more information about Spring Shell please see the home page. We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the GA release of Spring GemFire 1.1.2 project is now available! Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog To learn more about the project, visit the Spring GemFire Homepage. 1.1.2 is mainly a maintenance release providing several enhancements on the configuration front. See the changelog for more details.

Dear Spring Community, I am pleased to announce the GA release of Spring Data Redis 1.0.1 project! Downloads | JavaDocs | Reference Documentation | Changelog Spring Data Redis 1.0.1 is more then a maintenance release introducing several new features such as: For more information about Spring Data Redis please see the home page for a live sample and webinar. We look forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.

I am happy to announce that the second milestone (1.0.0.M2) of Spring for Apache Hadoop project is available. In this blog post, I would like to quickly highlight the major new features in M2. I hope you enjoy this new milestone. Go ahead, grab 1.0.0 M2, take it for a spin and let us know what you think! As far as new releases go, Spring for Apache Hadoop 1.0.0 M2 is not the only news on the Hadoop front. Today, VMware takes the curtains off project Serengeti, for virtualized and Highly Available Hadoop. See Richard McDougall's blog post on the motivations behind it, the current status and…