diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index d5a9a0035..569ed2ee2 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 		<dist.key>DATAJPA</dist.key>
 		
-		<eclipselink>2.4.0</eclipselink>
+		<eclipselink>2.5.1</eclipselink>
 		<hibernate>3.6.10.Final</hibernate>
 		<hsqldb1>1.8.0.10</hsqldb1>
 		<jpa>2.0.0</jpa>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtils.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtils.java
index e7f311e42..fd2e3baf2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtils.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/query/QueryUtils.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2008-2013 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2008-2014 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -440,9 +440,9 @@ public abstract class QueryUtils {
 
 		Bindable<?> propertyPathModel = null;
 		if (from.getModel() instanceof ManagedType) {
+
 			/*
-			 *  Avoid calling from.get(...) because this triggers the generation of an inner-join instead 
-			 *  of and outer-join in eclipse-link.
+			 *  Required to keep support for EclipseLink 2.4.x. TODO: Remove once we drop that (probably Dijkstra M1)
 			 *  See: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=413892
 			 */
 			propertyPathModel = (Bindable<?>) ((ManagedType<?>) from.getModel()).getAttribute(property.getSegment());
diff --git a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/EclipseLinkNamespaceUserRepositoryTests.java b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/EclipseLinkNamespaceUserRepositoryTests.java
index 72892d256..9234f430e 100644
--- a/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/EclipseLinkNamespaceUserRepositoryTests.java
+++ b/src/test/java/org/springframework/data/jpa/repository/EclipseLinkNamespaceUserRepositoryTests.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2008-2012 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2008-2014 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -50,20 +50,6 @@ public class EclipseLinkNamespaceUserRepositoryTests extends NamespaceUserReposi
 
 	}
 
-	@Override
-	public void doesNotDropNullValuesOnPagedSpecificationExecution() {}
-
-	/**
-	 * Works with a workaround in QueryUtils.toExpressionRecursively(…). TODO: remove once EclipseLink bug is fixed.
-	 * 
-	 * @see DATAJPA-346
-	 * @see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=413892
-	 */
-	@Override
-	public void shouldGenerateLeftOuterJoinInfindAllWithPaginationAndSortOnNestedPropertyPath() {
-		super.shouldGenerateLeftOuterJoinInfindAllWithPaginationAndSortOnNestedPropertyPath();
-	}
-
 	/**
 	 * Ignored until https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=349477 is resolved.
 	 */