design change - no longer surfacing typeDescriptor through property accessor.  conversion done internally in property write() code

request handler methods with @ModelAttribute annotation always return a model attribute (for Portlet MVC as well)

@Value values may use ${...} placeholders (driven by PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer); @Autowired uses field/parameter name as fallback qualifier value (SPR-5152)

FacesRequestAttributes (as used by RequestContextHolder) can access global Portlet session (SPR-5637)

Add ability to publish to S3 maven milestone repository for maven central style artifacts by adding slightly modified spring-build targets to publish-maven.xml

Use maven ant task to install parent pom instead of using maven from the command line as a workaround for http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MANTTASKS-87