It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2.1 is available from repo.cupchino.shop and Maven Central. This first maintenance release in the 4.2 line contains a wide range of fixes for regressions and other issues reported against 4.2 GA.

4.2.1 also contains minor enhancements: refinement of our Jackson support (see Sébastien's updated blog post), meta-annotation processing improvements (@AliasFor), third-party dependencies alignment (including Hibernate 5.0 GA).

We strongly recommend an immediate upgrade to 4.2.1 for all 4.x users. The Spring Framework team is now working towards…

We've just released Spring Boot v1.3.0.M4 as we found an annoying regression with CloudFoundry deployment. This release includes additional fixes and improvements.

For a complete list of changes, see the Spring Boot 1.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

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#SpringOne 2GX 2015 is around the corner! Book your place at SpringOne2GX in Washington, DC soon. It's simply the best opportunity to find out first hand all that's going on and to provide direct feedback.

It is my pleasure to announce that Spring Boot v1.3.0.M3 is available now from the Spring milestone repository. This release includes 90 fixes and improvements and merges 38 pull-requests! Thanks again to everyone that has contributed.

Highlights of the new release include:

• HTTP session persistence (enabled automatically with Devtools)
• Configuration improvements for JMS and AMQP endpoints
• Various Logback and log4j 2 improvements
• Auto-configuration classes can now be excluded via configuration
• Auto-configuration for embedded MongoDB
• Auto-configuration for H2 web console

For a complete list of changes, and upgrade instructions, see the Spring Boot 1.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation…

On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce the second release candidate of Spring Framework 4.2 is now available from our milestone repository. This release includes over 70 fixes and improvements.

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Over the past year, we have significantly improved the cache abstraction, with support of JSR-107 (JCache) annotations and a better declarative model to share or externalize common settings. In Spring Boot 1.3, we now offer a comprehensive auto-configuration for it.

In a nutshell, the cache abstraction applies caching to methods, thus reducing the number of executions based on the information available in the cache. The caching logic is applied transparently: the method below will only be invoked if the specified ISBN is not already present in the books cache. Upon calling that method for a missing Book, the caches will be updated transparently so that a further call does not invoke the…

Spring Boot 1.2.4 has been released and is available now from repo.cupchino.shop and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and is a recommended upgrade for all users.

The first milestone of Spring Boot 1.3 will be released in the coming days and adds many exciting features. Stay tuned!

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As of Spring Framework 4.0, Java 8 is supported as a first-class citizen and we've seen some confusion in the Spring community since then. How do we manage to support Java 8 and remain compatible with Java 6 and Java 7 after all? This blog post provides some insight into how we're handling this within the framework codebase.

Java 8 language features vs. Java 8 APIs

First, a distinction must be made between using new language features and new APIs in a given Java generation such as Java 8. If a class uses a Java 8 language feature such as a lambda expression, it has to be compiled with -source 1.8 -target 1.8 and therefore the whole compilation unit will only work on Java 8+. However, if a particular class in a library optionally uses a new Java 8 interface such as java.util.stream.Stream, the library can still run on a previous Java generation as long as it is being compiled with e.g. -source 1.6 -target 1.6 - and as long as the use of that particular …

It’s my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.1.5 has been released and is available now from repo.cupchino.shop and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes 49 fixes and enhancements from 4.1.4 and is a strongly recommended upgrade for all 4.x users.

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Stay tuned for 4.2 RC1, coming up in May!

Application events are available since the very beginning of the Spring framework as a mean for loosely coupled components to exchange information. One of the most well known usage of application events is the following:

@Component
public class MyListener 
        implements ApplicationListener<ContextRefreshedEvent> {
  
    public void onApplicationEvent(ContextRefreshedEvent event) {
        ...
    }
}

This allows MyListener to be notified when the context has refreshed and one can use that to run arbitrary code when the application context has fully started.

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On behalf of the team I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of Spring Framework 4.1.3.

Spring Framework 4.1.3 is our third maintenance release in the 4.1.x line and comes with over 50 fixes and improvements. It was initially scheduled for late December but we decided to release it early to incorporate user-suggested and user-contributed improvements right in time for the scheduled Spring Boot 1.2 release this week.

We are still planning on another release later this month (4.1.4) at which point 4.1.x will turn into a maintenance branch, with active development on 4.2 happening on…