On behalf of the Spring Data team, I am happy to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data Release train Fowler.

The release ships 170 tickets fixed, 119 of them unique to the Fowler release train. Find a curated changelog here. The highlights of the release include:

• Upgrades to Spring 4.0.8 and Querydsl 3.6.0.
• Performance improvements in converter subsystem by using byte-code generation.
• Out-of-the-box support for JSR-310 date/time types (MongoDB).
• Various (performance) improvements in the usage of SpEL (JPA).
• Support for $bit, $mul and $position operators (MongoDB).
• Improved proxy-id detection for JPA and REST.
• Introdcution of QueryDslPredicateExceutor.findAll(OrderSpecifier<?>... orders) (Querydsl).
• CDI repository extension for Cassandra module.
• Upgrade to Gemfire 8 (Gemfire).
• Version property based ETag generation (REST).
• Upgrades to Solr 4.10.1, Elasticsearch 1.2, Neo4J 2.1.5, compatibility with upcoming MongoDB server and driver.

Here are the participating modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.10 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.8 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.7 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.3 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.4 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.3 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.2 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.2 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.6 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 1.5 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.3 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

Be sure to check out the already updated examples. Get in touch via Twitter, StackOverflow or JIRA. We're looking forward to your feedback!