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PM 77-1
PM 77-1

Reputation: 13334

Downloading Spring Framework release 3.2

Currently, I'm looking at the springsource community download site.

It shows that 3.2.4 is the latest general release. Its zip file has dist suffix and the content is different than the latest in 3.1 branch 3.1.4 (which does not have dist ending).

3.1.4 has the following directories:

dist folder contains org.springframework...* jars.

3.2.4 has the following directories:

lib folder contains spring-... jars

Was there a major change between 3.1 and 3.2 releases?

According to this accepted answer there was but I was not able to find anything about it.

Does anybody have any particulars?

Should I get 3.1.4 for now?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 14185

Answers (1)

Ralph
Ralph

Reputation: 120771

It was a spring source decision to change it. (I think there was an blog article somewhere, but I can`t found it)

The distribution archive for release 3.2 RC1 is called spring-3.2.0.RC1-dist.zip; whereas, all releases prior to 3.2 generated distribution archives called spring-framework-*-dist.zip.

It is not a bug, it is not a major change in the code, and I highly doubt that they will switch back to the old layout (so there is no reason to stay with 3.1.4).

For the changes: have a look at the feature list and change log:

Upvotes: 4

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