Some folks on the list asked (understandably) for a "what's new" list for ColdSpring 1.2, so I put this together. We should get it up on the site shortly as well: Bean Aliases: Allows you to define additional bean IDs for existing beans. i.e.: Abstract / Parent Beans: Allows you to reduce XML duplication by defining common properties and settings in a parent bean that can be used by multiple child beans. See Quickstart Guide for full details and examples.

After a long wait, version 1.2 of the ColdSpring dependency injection framework has been released. This includes a large number of bug fixes and enhancements since the last official release. Along with 1.2 is a new ColdSpring web site. Rachel Lehman did a great job with the new design. And of course, hats off to the others on the team (Chris Scott, Dave Ross, Adam Lehman, Kurt Wiersma, and others) for all the work on ColdSpring over the months and years!