We are pleased to announce that Spring Framework 1.1.1 has just been released. This is a bugfix and minor enhancement release.
 

Among the new features in this release are:

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          <li>&quot;import&quot;

element for XML bean definitions

support for non-public classes and non-public init and destroy methods

bean factory regards bean references for correct destruction order (not requiring "depends-on")

bean factory detects JDK 1.4 and Commons Collections for linked/identity map creation

factored out the "publishEvent" method into the ApplicationEventPublisher interface

included new "test" package in mock JAR, offering superclasses for tests requiring Spring contexts

added "applyQueryTimeout" method to the JdoDialect interface

added "addAttribute" and "getAttribute" methods to RemoteInvocation

explicit support for EHCache via EhCacheManagerFactoryBean and EhCacheFactoryBean

SimpleMessageConverter102 handles BytesMessage without JMS 1.1's "getBodyLength" method

added JmsGatewaySupport convenience base class

added ServletForwardingController and ServletWrappingController

BindStatus and BindTag can be created without Errors instance in the request too

changed MessageTag's "arguments" attribute to Object

added "javaScriptEscape" attribute to MessageTag

added EscapeBodyTag aka "spring:escapeBody"

As always, have a look at the changelog for details.
Downloads are available through the SourceForge project page