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Dave Syer's six-part blog series on Spring Security and AngularJS has been a smash hit! It has echoed across the twittersphere, torn up DZone, and drawn people far and wide.

Did you miss any of it? Perhaps you've heard of it and found it too difficult to track down the first post. No more.

Please navigate to our newly minted Spring Security and AngularJS tutorial and enjoy all that solid gold. We migrated 100% of it into that tutorial, made slight edits to the links, and polished it up just for you.

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On behalf of the Spring Security Kerberos team, I'm pleased to announce the release of Spring Security Kerberos 1.0.0.RC2. This release brings a number of changes. The highlights can be found below:

• Added support LdapContextSource. Special thanks to Nelson Rodrigues for this contribution!
• Repackaging for better management of dependencies
  • Specific implementations are moved to their own packages to signal additional optional dependencies
  • spring-security-kerberos-web now contains all of the web related dependencies (i.e. servlet dependencies)
• Bug fixes

We’d love to hear back what people think by participating in a project or simply creating issues or feature requests at GitHub…

You might have heard about the end of public updates for Java 7, coming up in just a few days with the release of Java 7 update 80. See the following Oracle pages for a reference:

https://blogs.oracle.com/java-platform-group/entry/future_updates_of_java_7 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/eol-135779.html

Let's clarify what it really is: the end of public updates, and by no means an end of life (EOL). With the second link above, scroll down to the "Oracle Java SE Support Roadmap" section and you'll find the actual EOL dates: Dec 2018 for Java 6 and Jul 2022 for Java 7. Yes, that's another…

We are pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 1.1.2.RELEASE 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:

• Spring AMQP 1.4.3
• Spring Batch 3.0.3
• Spring Boot 1.2.3
• Spring Cloud Connectors 1.1.1
• Spring Data Evans SR2
• Spring Framework 4.1.6
• Spring Security 3.2.7
• Spring Web Services 2.2.1

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

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We are pleased to announce that Spring IO Platform 1.0.5.RELEASE is now available from both repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release is intended for users who remain on the 1.0.x line; where possible, upgrading to 1.1.x is recommended.

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

• Spring AMQP 1.3.7
• Spring Batch 3.0.3
• Spring Boot 1.1.12
• Spring Data Dijkstra SR5
• Spring Framework 4.0.9
• Spring Integration 4.0.6
• Spring Security 3.2.7
• Spring Web Services 2.2.1

The versions of many third-party…

Spring Boot 1.1.12 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and is recommended for anyone still on the 1.1.x line.

This the last planned release from the 1.1.x branch so please consider upgrading to 1.2.3 if you haven't already.

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Spring Boot 1.2.3 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.

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

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Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! As usual, we've got a lot to cover so let's get to it!

• Spring Security lead Rob Winch just announced the amazing Spring Security 4.0 release! This one is packed with amazing features including websocket support, Spring Data integration, enhanced testing support, and much improved defaults
• The Cloud Foundry Java buildpack now supports overriding inbuilt configuration through the use of well-named environment variables! This means you can tweak all manner of the default behavior without needing to fork the buildpack!
• Good news! Spring XD 1.1.1 is released! It includes improved performance and offset management when using Kafka message bus, support for Spark's streaming reliable receiver, Kryo serialization improvements, RabbitMQ auto-cleanup options and a Sqoop…

Speaker: Julien Dubois

Slides:http://www.slideshare.net/julien.dubois/jhipster-for-spring-boot-webinar

JHipster focuses on generating a high quality application with a Java back-end using an extensive set of Spring technologies; Spring Boot, Spring Security, Spring Data, Spring MVC (providing a framework for websockets, REST and MVC), etc. an Angular.js front-end and a suite of pre-configured development tools like Yeoman, Maven, Gradle, Grunt, Gulp.js and Bower. JHipster creates a fully configured Spring Boot application with a set of pre-defined screens for user management, monitoring, and logging. The generated Spring Boot application is specifically tailored to make working with Angular.js a smoother experience. Join Julien for a quick-live coding session to build a simple application, and deploy it to Cloud Foundry.

Learn about about Spring Boot at http://projects.spring.io/spring-boot