The Spring Data team has just released the first service release for the Babbage release train. It includes the following modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.6.2 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data JPA 1.4.2 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.3.2 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts
• Spring Data Neo4j 2.3.2 - Changelog - JavaDoc - Artifacts

The release bundles a bunch of important enhancements and bug fixes and is a recommended upgrade. You can find all issues fixed in this release in our JIRA.

The next step will be a first milestone of the Codd release train with a few great new features, especially for the MongoDB module. More details about that here.