Whats new in version 4.0.6:
- Improved Getting Started Experience:
- The new spring.io website provides a whole series of "Getting Started" guides to help you learn Spring. You can read more about the guides in the Chapter 1, Getting Started With Spring section in this document. The new website also provides a comprehensive overview of the many additional projects that are released under the Spring umbrella.
- If you are a Maven user you may also be interested in the helpful bill of materials POM file that is now published with each Spring Framework release.
- Removed Deprecated Packages and Methods:
- All deprecated packages, and many deprecated classes and methods have been removed with version 4.0. If you are upgrading from a previous release of Spring, you should ensure that you have fixed any deprecated calls that you were making to outdated APIs.
- Java 8 (as well as 6 and 7):
- Spring Framework 4.0 provides support for several Java 8 features. You can make use of lambda expressions and method references with Spring’...
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Spring Framework 4.0.6 details 
