I'm pleased to announce that Spring LDAP 2.0.0.RELEASE is now available from Maven Central and Bintray. A special thanks to Mattias Arthursson for all the work he put into this release!

Refer to the What's new in Spring LDAP 2.0 to find the full details of this release. A list of changes can be found within JIRA's change logs. Highlights include:

• Spring Data Repository and QueryDSL support is now included in Spring LDAP.
• Fluent LDAP query support has been added.
• A custom XML namespace is now provided to simplify configuration of Spring LDAP.
• Spring LDAP core has been updated with Java 5 features such as generics and varargs.
• The ODM (Object-Directory Mapping) functionality has been moved to core and there are new methods in LdapOperations/LdapTemplate that uses this automatic translation to/from ODM-annotated classes.

Please consider helping us spread the word on Twitter, ask questions on Stackoverflow with the spring-ldap tag and log any issues to the Spring LDAP JIRA.