[Springframework-developer] Spring Framework 2.0 M5 released

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

Dear Spring community,

I'm pleased to announce that Spring 2.0 M5 has been released. This
intermediate release paves the way for the upcoming release candidate,
giving early access to major new features before the 2.0 API freeze.

Spring 2.0 M5 includes reworked scoping support at the bean factory level,
support for class instrumentation, updated JPA support, and many further
refinements. Furthermore, this release contains numerous fixes for issues
discovered since M4. See the changelog for details.

Note: Due to an unfortunate issue with the SourceForge file release system,
only the "-with-dependencies" download is available immediately. The
alternative zip file without dependencies will be added within 24 hours.

This release constitutes a feature freeze for the 2.0 target, with the
remaining work focussing on documentation, samples, and integration tests.
Spring 2.0 RC1 is now just around the corner!

Cheers,

Juergen
 
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Juergen Hoeller
Interface21
http://www.springframework.com