Dear Spring Community, I'd like to announce the availability of the GA release of Spring Data 1.1.0. The overall release comes with 72 bugs fixed, improvements and new features. Here are the most important ones:

• New keywords for query generation: LessThanEqual, GreaterThanEqual, Before, After, StartsWith, EndsWith, Contains
• PersistenceUnitPostProcessor to scan for JPA entities (to be used with Spring versions before 3.1)
• CDI integration for repositories (see here for details)
• Support for native queries in @Query
• Support for declarative locking

The release binaries are available via our Artifactory instance at http://repo.springsource.org and will be available in Maven Central in a bit as well.

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Looking forward to your feedback in the forums or the issuetracker.