Spring Framework 4.2 goes GA
Dear Spring community,
It's my pleasure to announce that Spring Framework 4.2 is now generally available from repo.spring.io as well as Maven Central! This is a feature release in the 4.x line, compatible with Java 6 and 7 as well as Java 8, with a focus on core refinements and modern web capabilities:
- Annotation detection on Java 8 default methods (e.g.
@Bean
) - Annotation-based application events (
@EventListener
) - First-class support for annotation attribute aliases (
@AliasFor
) - Full nested path processing for direct field binding
- Data binding and conversion for JSR-354 Money & Currency
- Integration with Hibernate ORM 5.0 (natively and via JPA)
- Standards-based bean scripting via JSR-223 (JRuby, JavaScript)
- JSR-223 based web views (with a focus on JavaScript on Nashorn)
- Rich support for CORS and declarative HTTP caching
- First-class support for HTTP Streaming and Server-Sent Events
- CompletableFuture for handler methods and
@Async
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