Hot on the heels of the Spring 3.2.9 and 4.0.5 releases, I am pleased to announce the availability of the GA release of the Spring Data release train named Dijkstra.

We're happy to welcome 5 new modules to the release train: Elasticsearch, Cassandra, Couchbase, Gemfire and Redis. Two of them even celebrate their first GA version ever. So I'd like to send special congratulations and thanks to the project leads Mohsin Husen for Spring Data Elasticsearch and David Webb as well as Matthew Adams for Spring Data Cassandra.

Here's the full list of participating modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.8 GA - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.6 GA - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.5 GA - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.1 GA - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.2 GA - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.1 GA - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.0 GA - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.0 GA - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

I am happy to announce the first release candidate of the next Spring Data release train named Dijkstra. The full list of participating modules looks as follows:

• Spring Data Commons 1.8 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.6 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.5 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.1 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.2 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.1 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.0 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.0 RC1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

I am happy to announce the second service release of the Spring Data release train named Codd. The full list of participating modules looks as follows:

• Spring Data Commons 1.7.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.5.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.4.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.0.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.1.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.0.2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
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I am excited to announce the availability of the first milestone of the Dijkstra release train of the Spring Data umbrella project. This train iteration is a very special one as we have 5 new modules joining the release train: Spring Data Couchbase, Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Gemfire and Redis. I am even more excited about that as the majority of them are community lead projects. These are the modules included:

• Spring Data Build 1.4 M1 - Changelog
• Spring Data Commons 1.8 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.6 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.5 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.1 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.2 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.1 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.0 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.0 M2 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - …

On behalf of Michael Nitschinger, I'm happy to announce the 1.0 GA release of the Couchbase Spring Data module.

Between the last release candidate and the final release, several bugs have been fixed and new features have been added. Notable additions are the support for custom converters, JSR-303 Validation support and built-in support for temporal objects like Dates, Calendars and similar JodaTime variants.

The release artifacts are available via Maven Central. You can find the reference documentation, JavaDoc and a change log at the usual expected places.

From now on, the Couchbase module will be part of the official Spring Data release trains, starting with Dijkstra. Now that the first GA release is out of the door, we will put…

I am happy to announce the first service release of the Spring Data release train named Codd. The full list of participating modules looks as follows:

• Spring Data Build 1.3.1 - Changelog
• Spring Data Commons 1.7.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.5.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.4.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.0.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.0.1 - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
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I am happy to announce the availability of the last service release of the Spring Data Babbage release train. The release includes the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.6.5 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data JPA 1.4.5 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.3.5 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.3.5 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts

The release bundles a bunch of important enhancements and bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade. The release forms the last service release of the Babbage release train. Users are recommended to have a look at the latest releases of Spring Data Codd…

I am happy to announce the final release of the Spring Data release train named Codd. The full list of participating modules looks as follows:

• Spring Data Build 1.3 GA - Changelog
• Spring Data Commons 1.7 GA - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.5 GA - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.4 GA - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.0 GA - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.1 GA - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.0 GA - Artifacts - JavaDoc - Documentation - Changelog
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I am happy to announce the availability of the third service release of the Spring Data Babbage release train. The release includes the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.6.4 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data JPA 1.4.4 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.3.4 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.3.4 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts

The release bundles a bunch of important enhancements and bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade. You can find all issues fixed in this release in our JIRA.

An important addition to the release is the release train BOM that allows you to easily upgrade to the service release by including the following dependency into your…

On behalf of the development team around Mohsin Husen at BioMed Central I am happy to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data Elasticsearch community module.

The release of the module implements the well-known Spring Data programming model on top of Elasticsearch includes support for dynamic mapping (nested type, object, parent child), index and search API, facets, highlighting, aliasing, more-like-this, scan & scroll etc.

From a Spring Data perspective this release features support for templates, repositories, CDI, Java and XML-style configuration. Entities will be automatically…