We are pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 1.0.4 is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Groovy 2.3.8
• Spring Boot 1.1.10
• Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.4
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.5

The versions of many third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 1.1.0 has been released is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

New projects in 1.1

The following projects are new to the Platform in 1.1:

• Spring Integration Flow 1.0
• Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0
• Spring Integration Splunk 1.1

Projects upgraded in 1.1

Several projects have new minor versions in 1.1:

• Spring Boot 1.2
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.1
• Spring Data JPA 1.7
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6
• Spring Data Neo4J 3.2
• Spring Data Redis 1.4
• Spring Data REST 2.2
• Spring Data Solr 1.3
• Spring Framework 4.1
• Spring Integration 4.1

Numerous…

We are pleased to announce that RC1 of Spring IO Platform 1.1 is now available from repo.spring.io. Please try out the release candidate and let us know if you encounter any problems.

New projects in 1.1

The following projects are new to the Platform in 1.1:

• Spring Integration Flow 1.0
• Spring Integration Java DSL 1.0
• Spring Integration Splunk 1.1

Projects upgraded in 1.1

Several projects have new minor versions in 1.1:

• Spring Boot 1.2
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.1
• Spring Data JPA 1.7
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6
• Spring Data Neo4J 3.2
• Spring Data Redis 1.4
• Spring Data REST 2.2
• Spring Data Solr 1.3
• Spring Framework 4.1
• Spring Integration 4.1
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We are pleased to announce that the latest maintenance release, 1.0.3.RELEASE, of Spring IO Platform is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Groovy 2.3.7
• Reactor 1.1.5
• Spring AMQP 1.3.7
• Spring Batch 3.0.2
• Spring Boot 1.1.9
• Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.3
• Spring Framework 4.0.8
• Spring Integration 4.0.5
• Spring Mobile 1.1.3
• Spring Retry 1.1.2
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.4

The versions of many third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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We are pleased to announce the latest maintenance release of Spring IO Platform is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Reactor 1.1.4
• Reactor Spring 1.1.3
• Spring AMQP 1.3.6
• Spring Boot 1.1.6
• Spring Data Dijkstra SR4
• Spring Framework 4.0.7
• Spring Integration 4.0.4
• Spring Security 3.2.5
• Spring Security OAuth 2.0.3
• Spring Web Flow 2.4.1

The versions of many third-party dependencies have also been updated.

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We are pleased to announce that Spring Boot 1.1.4 has been released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release addresses a number of bugs, adds support for the first stable release of Tomcat 8 (8.0.9), and also provides improved logging configuration that allows you to configure logging levels in application.properties or application.yaml. For a complete list of changes please refer to the issue tracker.

Thanks again to everyone who has contributed to the project.

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We are pleased to announce that the first maintenance release of Spring IO Platform has been released. It's available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This release upgrades the versions of a number of the projects in the Platform to pick up their latest maintenance releases:

• Spring AMQP 1.3.5
• Spring Boot 1.1.4
• Spring Batch 3.0.1
• Spring for Apache Hadoop 2.0.1
• Spring Framework 4.0.6

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It's my pleasure to announce that we've released the first milestone of Spring Migration Analyzer (SMA), a command-line utility that analyzes enterprise Java applications and produces a report describing the application and how it can be migrated to Spring.

Why migrate an application to Spring?

We see two main reasons when people choose to use Spring. Firstly, Spring offers the greatest range of deployment options including cloud and PaaS, allowing you to deploy your application to lighter-weight runtimes with lower operating costs. Secondly, as Adrian recently explained Spring provides access to a host of technologies that are at the forefront of enterprise Java.

When it comes to considering the migration of an existing application to Spring, it's typically the deployment flexibility that motivates the move as it can significantly reduce the application's operating costs.

Using SMA to analyze an application

To get started with SMA, download the distribution. Once it's downloaded, unzip it:

unzip spring-migration-analyzer-1.0.0.M1-dist.zip

With JAVA_HOME set, you can then run the migration-analysis script to…

As Adrian mentioned, today is the day for dm Server 2.0 and I'm delighted to announce that dm Server 2.0 is now available. Thank you for all of the feedback that we've had during the development of 2.0, it's helped to shape it into what we believe is a big step forward for enterprise OSGi. We're now looking forward to the next steps on the journey at Eclipse.org.

There's a lot of great stuff in the 2.0 release. Here's a brief overview:

• dm Shell - we've added a brand new shell in 2.0, that's available both in-process and remotely over ssh. It provides extensive support for managing a dm Server instance and its deployed artifacts.
• Admin console - the admin console has been extensively overhauled in 2.0. It provides, among other things, support for managing and deploying artifacts, examining diagnostic dumps, and examining the bundle wiring both in the live system, and at the time of a resolution failure.
• Plans - dm Server 2.0 introduces support for plans which are powerful alternative to 1.0's PARs for deploying modular applications. A plan can be used to reference all of the artifacts that comprise your application, optionally making the application atomic to tie the child artifact lifecycles together, and scoped to isolate the application from other applications deployed in the same dm Server instance.
• Provisioning - dm Server's always had excellent provisioning support and in 2.0 it's got even better. In addition to the automatic provisioning of bundles based on the needs of the installed applications that was available in 1.0, dm Server 2.0 provides support for provisioning plans, PARs, and configuration from both local and remote repositories.
• Web support - dm Server 2.0 builds upon 1.0's Web support and embeds the Tomcat-based reference implementation for the OSGi Web Container specification, allowing users to deploy vanilla WAR files with all their dependencies in WEB-INF/lib, and Web Application Bundles that import their dependencies via OSGi manifest metadata. The web container is configurable using the standard Tomcat server.xml.
• User region - dm Server 2.0 introduces a user region which isolates the dm Kernel from user-installed applications. Among other things, this simplifies administration as it allows users to focus on user application artifacts and their dependencies without having to deal with those of the kernel as well.
• Spring 3.0 - like many others, we've been tracking the Spring 3.0 milestones and release candidates, and dm Server 2.0 now packages Spring 3.0 final. If you'd prefer to use dm Server 2.0 with a different version of Spring, it can easily be configured to do so.
• Hot deployment - in addition to support for deployment via the admin console, artifacts can also be deployed to dm Server by copying them into the pickup directory, either in archive or exploded form.
• Running as a service - dm Server can now be run as a Windows service or as a Unix background process.
• Logging - as in 1.0, dm Server's logging support is available via SLF4J. In 2.0, the backend has been replaced with LogBack, making it extensively configurable by modifying dm Server's config/serviceability.xml file with a rich set of appenders available out of the box.
• Equinox 3.5 - dm Server 2.0 embeds Equinox 3.5, the reference implementation of OSGi 4.2.

Hot on the heels of Spring 3.0 and Spring DM 1.2.1, I'm delighted to announce that dm Server 2.0 RC1 is now available. RC1 is feature complete and, barring any major problems being found, will be the final 2.0 release early in the new year. So, please download the RC and give us your feedback: it's your last chance to shape the 2.0 release!

If you're interested in what's changed since M6, please take a look at the release notes.

Thank you for all of the feedback that we've had during the development of 2.0. Please keep it coming as we move towards the final release.

Feature overview

There's a lot of great…