Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 3.0.0 is now available.

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Breaking Changes

• .NET 4.6.1 is the lowest full framework supported
• Transaction definitions no longer have EnterpriseServicesInteropOption, it was replaced by TransactionScopeAsyncFlowOption
• Some packages which require commercial libraries are not published, like Spring EMS

New Feature Highlights

• .NET Core / >= NET5 support via .NET Standard 2.0 library targets for all core projects and integration projects which offer .NET standard compatible libraries

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Dear Spring Community,

We are pleased to announce that Spring .NET 1.3.0 is now available.

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This release contains the following new major features:

• Micosoft Test Framework integration - Integration test classes to support MSTest in addition to NUnit.
• TIBCO EMS integration - Helper classes to increase your productivity developing messaging based applications with TIBCO EMS.
• NVelocity integration - Helper classes to configure a NVelocity template engine in a Spring based application
• VS.NET Solution Templates - VS.NET 2008 based solution templates to get you up and running quickly creating Spring based applications.
• DI support for Enterprise Service Components

Other notable new features:

• NHibernate 2.1 and ActiveMQ NMS 1.1 support.
• Updated and documented NHibernate 2.1 QuickStart application.
• Spring based NHibernate ByteCode provider to support DI for NH entities.

Please refer to the changelog for additional details.

Check out Erich Eichingers's blog for a preview of code based configuration (no XML).

Happy Holidays!

ARTICLE: Milan Negovan has written an article entitled "Real-World Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection with WebForms" using Spring.NET. Check it out!

PROJECT NEWS: The Spring.NET 1.3 GA release is scheduled for December 15th 2009. Thanks for your patience.