We are happy to announce the first release candidate of the Spring Data release train Evans. We ship the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.9 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.7 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.2 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.3 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.2 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.1 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.1 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.5 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 1.4 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.2 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

Some of the highlights that happened since the first milestone are:

• Enhanced multistore support in case you want to use different stores side by side.
• Support for custom repository implementations when using CDI.
• Text search integration for MongoDB repositories.
• Configuration options for Redis sentinels.
• Geo queries for Elasticsearch.
• We moved the reference documentation from Docbook to Asciidoctor.

Overall 95 tickets have be processed so make sure you've booked your place for SpringOne in Dallas to find out firsthand what's new in Spring Data. Meanwhile watch out for upcoming blog posts on selected features of this release. The release train wiki page might be a good start to find out about relevant new stuff as well.

Got questions? Have feedback? Found a bug? Don't hesitate to contact us! We're looking forward to getting in touch via Twitter, StackOverflow or JIRA.