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).

, and operators (MongoDB). Improved proxy-id detection for JPA and REST.

Introdcution of QueryDslPredicateExceutor.findAll(OrderSpecifier<?>... orders) (Querydsl).

(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

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