Spring Framework 3.2 RC1 Released

Submitted by Chris Beams on Mon, 2012-11-05 10:51

The first release candidate toward Spring Framework 3.2 is now available from the SpringSource repository.

See Juergen's blog post for complete details, but here are a few highlights from RC1:

Inclusion of the formerly-standalone Spring MVC Test project, allowing for first-class testing of Spring MVC applications (stay tuned for Rossen's blog post on this later this week)
Support for loading WebApplicationContexts in the TestContext framework (stay tuned for Sam's blog post on this later this week)
Support for the HTTP PATCH method
Support creation of custom injection annotations by allowing @Autowired and @Value to be used as meta-annotations
Overall, 42 bugs fixed, 8 new features and 40 improvements implemented
... and of course everything already included in the 3.2 M1 and M2 releases

As the release candidate name suggests, now is the time to take 3.2 for a spin in your dev and test environments if you haven't already been tracking the milestones. Let us know how it goes, thanks!