Spring Framework 1.2.6 Released, Full Steam Ahead to 1.3

Posted on November 15th, 2005 in General, Spring, Software, Tech.

Spring 1.2.6 was released yesterday. Thanks to Juergen and Rob for the coding heroics over the last while to get this out.

At this time CVS HEAD is now dedicated to Spring 1.3 development, and over the course of this week, we’ll move already prepared 1.3 features from the sandbox over to the main sources. Starting soon, the nightly snapshots will be 1.3 RC1 previews, already containing 1.3 features.

You can expect some very exciting 1.3 line enhancements to be shown at The Spring Experience in North Miami 3 weeks from now. The Spring Experience is going to be a blast, a 3-day conference in sunny Florida devoted to nothing but Spring, with all the well-known names in the Spring world in attendance as speakers, and hundreds of other Spring users there to talk to.

 

8 responses

  1. Carlos Cajina says:

    Added on November 15th, 2005 at 3:38 pm

    Hi. I’ve just read (following today’s 1.2.6 release) that efforts are being devoted to the development of the next major release, 1.3. Being interested in what’s next I tried to find references about what will this upcoming major release will be about but couldn’t find anything fairly complete, Are the new features a big secret to be uncovered in the Spring Experience or can we find details about it somewhere on the Net :^)?

    Congratulations for you hard and quiality work.

    Carlos.

  2. Jason Carreira says:

    Added on November 15th, 2005 at 4:00 pm

    So will Session-scoped component support make it into 1.3? I think this is of vital importance (thus the reason I built a beta version of it for WebWork), so I hope it’s a top priority.

  3. Colin Sampaleanu (blog author) says:

    Added on November 15th, 2005 at 5:05 pm

    Carlos,

    Much of the stuff in 1.3 is listed here:
    http://opensource2.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR?report=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.project:roadmap-panel

    I would however be lying if I said there wouldn’t be some interesting stuff popping up in time for The Spring Experience :-)

    Jason,

    Yes, the scoping code is actually already written.

    Colin

  4. Jason Carreira says:

    Added on November 15th, 2005 at 11:10 pm

    Hi Colin,

    Yes, I talked through some of the design considerations with Steven Dejiver while he was working on it, but I heard secondhand that Keith Donald had said it probably wouldn’t make it into 1.3. I’m glad to hear it will.

  5. Lari Hotari says:

    Added on November 16th, 2005 at 2:42 am

    It would be cool if session-scoped component support would also allow to use any pluggable session management beside HTTP session management. I’ve had a requirement for Thread local “sessions” before. In this kind of case components should be statefull for only the length of the single transaction. Currently it’s quite hard to implement this kind of stateful beans with Spring.

  6. Lari Hotari says:

    Added on November 16th, 2005 at 11:19 pm

    Actually there’s already “Thread local singletons” on the feature request list:
    http://opensource2.atlassian.com/projects/spring/browse/SPR-1045

  7. James says:

    Added on February 9th, 2006 at 8:15 am

    How can i download the sprin-famework-1.2.6? thanks

  8. Colin Sampaleanu (blog author) says:

    Added on February 9th, 2006 at 8:51 am

    Downloads are always available off the main download page on http://www.springframework.org.
    http://www.springframework.org/download
    The links will take you to the actual file download area on Sourceforge, where you can also get a historical versions.

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