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 Spring Data Commons Changelog
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+Changes in version 1.12.0.RC1 (2016-03-18)
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+* DATACMNS-829 - Projecting a Map with a null value causes an exception.
+* DATACMNS-828 - Potential NullPointerException in ResultProcessor.
+* DATACMNS-827 - Fix Travis build setup after Spring 4.2 upgrade.
+* DATACMNS-826 - JavaDoc of GeoModule class broken.
+* DATACMNS-825 - Allow usage of composed annotations on PersistentEntity and PersistentProperty using @AliasFor.
+* DATACMNS-823 - Release 1.12 RC1 (Hopper).
+* DATACMNS-821 - Enable type prediction for JndiObjectFactoryBean.
+* DATACMNS-820 - Allow setter invocations in projections backed by beans.
+* DATACMNS-818 - Rename Tuple value type to Pair.
+* DATACMNS-812 - Confusing message generated by  PageImpl.toString().
+* DATACMNS-810 - Add core types for Query By Example support.
+
+
 Changes in version 1.11.4.RELEASE (2016-02-23)
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 * DATACMNS-820 - Allow setter invocations in projections backed by beans.