I am excited to announce the availability of the first milestone of the Dijkstra release train of the Spring Data umbrella project. This train iteration is a very special one as we have 5 new modules joining the release train: Spring Data Couchbase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Gemfire and Redis. I am even more excited about that as the majority of them are community lead projects. These are the modules included:

• Spring Data Build 1.4 M1 - Changelog
• Spring Data Commons 1.8 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.6 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.5 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.1 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.2 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.1 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.0 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.0 M2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.4 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 1.3 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.1 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

The team around these 12 modules squashed 169 tickets for this milestone and fixed 58 further bugs that will also be backported to the Codd services releases. See this JIRA query for a full list of changes.

We've prepared a curated changelog in our wiki for you to get an overview over what is included in the first milestone. We'll have additional blog posts coming up to present some selected new features in more detail. Until then, we're looking forward to your feedback in JIRA via Twitter or on StackOverflow.