[Springframework-developer] Spring Framework 2.0 M4 released

[Juergen H. <ju...@in...>]

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 2.0 M4 has been released.

Spring 2.0 M4 is the fourth milestone of the next generation of Spring:
including updated JPA support, named parameter support for JDBC access,
refined XML schema namespaces, auto-proxying for FactoryBean-created
objects, and many refinements in the details.

Furthermore, this release contains numerous fixes for issues discovered
since M3. See the changelog for details.

With this release, we are approaching a feature freeze for the 2.0 target,
with only a few further features and refinements planned for inclusion in
2.0. The next release will be Spring 2.0 RC1, scheduled for May.

FYI, we will release a 1.2.8 maintenance release within a few days,
backporting all applicable fixes from 2.0 M4. (This is already available
from mbranch-1-2 in CVS, awaiting final tests.)

Cheers,

Juergen
 
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Juergen Hoeller
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