SpringSource just announced the first milestone release toward Spring 3.2. The new release is now available from the SpringSource repository at http://repo.springsource.org/.

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This release includes:

• Initial support for asynchronous @Controller methods
• Early support for JCache-based cache providers
• Significant performance improvements in autowiring of non-singleton beans
• Initial delay support for @Scheduled and
• Ability to choose between multiple executors with @Async
• Enhanced bean profile selection using the not (!) operator
• 48 bugs fixed, 8 new features and 36 improvements implemented

• Set up a Spring 3 development environment
• Gradle archetype for Spring applications
• Transaction configuration with JPA and Spring 3.1
• Spring 3.1 Cache Abstraction Tutorial