We're pleased to announce the release of Spring IO Platform 1.0.0 RELEASE, and represents some amazing engineering work. The highlights of this release are: A Bill-of-Materials release (a Maven BOM dependency) that level sets the versions for you. Spring IO represents curated and harmonized dependencies that just work together - tests cover all the Spring projects and lots of popular 3rd party open source One platform, many workloads - build web (HTML-, websocket-, and REST-powered web apps), mobile, integration, batch, reactive or big data applications, or just great APIs Radically…

Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring - this week I'm working with the amazing Vaadin team on building some ridiculously fun applications. Be ready for more on that soon! Also, the SpringOne2GX 2014 early bird has been extended to June 30th, so register now! Without further ado, onward: Spring Boot 1.1.2 is now available! The new release features mainly bug fixes and more. Check it out! Adib Saikali gave a nice talk introducing where the rest of the Spring IO platform benefits from Java 8, above and beyond the uses we've previously described in Spring framework. Check out…