The first milestone of Spring 3.1 is now available from our http://maven.springframework.org/milestone Maven repository or for direct download from our community download page. This release includes new features such as:

• Bean definition profiles
• Enhancements to Java-based container configuration
• Caching abstraction
• new c: XML namespace
• Improvements to Spring MVC

Stay tuned to the SpringSource Blog over the coming week for a series of posts covering what's new in 3.1.0.M1.

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Don't forget that Spring users can ask questions in the community forum and identify issues in JIRA as well.