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 Spring Data JPA Changelog
 =========================
 
+Changes in version 1.9.6.RELEASE (2016-09-29)
+---------------------------------------------
+* DATAJPA-975 - Release 1.9.6 (Gosling SR6).
+* DATAJPA-970 - Ensure JDK 6 compatibility of regular expression used in QueryUtils.
+
+
 Changes in version 1.9.5.RELEASE (2016-09-20)
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 * DATAJPA-965 - Mapping Sort instances to ORDER BY expressions should be restricted to fields for manually defined queries.