We are happy to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data Release train Evans.

• Spring Data Commons 1.9 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.7 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.2 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.3 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.2 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.1 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.1 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.5 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 1.4 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.2 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

There's a bunch of new stuff shipping with this release:

• Support for Java 8 default methods on repositories.
• Support for dynamic SpEL based query parameter expressions in JPA.
• Enhanced support for MongoDB 2.6 features (text search).
• Support for ALPS and excerpt projections in Spring Data REST.
• Spring 4 as new baseline.

Be sure to check out the already updated examples. The team around the participating modules squashed 125 Tickets including 42 bug fixes. Have a look at Jira for a full list and watch out for upcoming blog posts on selected features.

Get in touch via Twitter, StackOverflow or JIRA. We're looking forward to your feedback!

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