Dear Spring Community, I'm pleased to announce that Spring 2.1 M2 has been released! This is the second milestone release in the Spring 2.1 series, introducing refinements in the annotation config support as well as support for AspectJ load-time weaving and various further new features.This release also introduces a revised structure for Spring's module jars, now prepared for OSGi. Note that Hibernate 2.1 support has been dropped: Spring generally requires Hibernate 3.1 or higher now.  Download | Documentation | Changelog  Please see the changelog and JIRA roadmap for more details on the new…

Dear Spring Community, We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.1 M1 has been released.  This is the first milestone release in the Spring 2.1 series, introducing major new features including annotation-based configuration, JCA-based message endpoint management, new "context" and "jms" XML configuration namespaces, and JDK 1.6 and Java EE 5 support. Download | Documentation | Changelog  See the associated press release for an overview of the major themes of the 2.1 release. Subscribe to the Interface21 Team Blog for discussion and examples of the new features.Please see the changelog and JIRA…

Dear Spring Community, We are pleased to announce that Spring 2.0.5 has been released.  This is is a bugfix and enhancement release in the Spring 2.0 series, addressing all issues reported since 2.0.4 and introducing further concurrency improvements. We recommend to upgrade to Spring 2.0.5 from all previous 2.0.x releases.Download | Documentation | Changelog Please see the changelog and JIRA roadmap for all the details of the 63 issues addressed in this release. Juergen HoellerLead, Spring Framework DevelopmentInterface21 - http://www.interface21.com