Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that a new milestone release (1.0.0.M3) of the Spring Data Graph 1.0 project with Neo4j support is now available!

The primary goal of the Spring Data project is to make it easier to build Spring-powered applications that use new data access technologies such as non-relational databases, map-reduce frameworks, and cloud based data services.

The Graph Neo4j module provides integration with the Neo4j graph database.

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To learn more about the project, visit the Spring Neo4j Homepage.

The new features in Spring Data Graph 1.0.0.M3 include:

• update to Neo4j-1.3.M03, AspectJ 1.6.11.M2
• added explicit support for detachable entities
• added bean validation support for property changes
• added external transaction manager support (XA and one phase commit best effort)
• added xml namespace configuration
• simplified Spring Java Config configuration class
• added automatic numerical indexing and range queries
• added full featured Neo4jTemplate
• all methods introduced to entities are now generified

Looking forward to your feedback on the forum or in the issue tracker.