On behalf of the Spring Data team I am pleased to announce the availability of the first service release of the Evans release train. The team around the participating modules completed 41 issues including serveral bug fixes. We want to thank everyone for taking the time to report, volunteer fixing and testing those issues - this is invaluable feedback we could not do without!

The release includes the following 11 modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.9.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.7.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.6.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.3.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.1.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.5.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 1.4.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.2.1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

Evans SR 1 is a recommended upgrade as it contains important bug fixes. Dijkstra users still on a service release are encouraged to upgrade as well. The next release coming will be the first milestone of release train Fowler.

In case you happen to be in London this week, don't miss the oportunity to meet us at Spring eXchange 2014.