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 Spring Data REST Changelog
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+Changes in version 2.5.9.RELEASE (2017-04-19)
+---------------------------------------------
+* DATAREST-1050 - Deserialization of request body for creating PUT requests has to consider identifier derived from the URI.
+* DATAREST-1046 - Instructions in "Assigning Validators manually" are not correct in reference documentation.
+* DATAREST-1030 - PATCH requests do not handle links to associations properly.
+* DATAREST-1018 - Potential NullPointerException in UriToEntityConverter.
+* DATAREST-1017 - Release 2.5.9 (Hopper SR9).
+* DATAREST-1014 - Java 7 compatibility broken due to usage of Java 8 API in AnnotatedEventHandlerInvoker.
+
+
 Changes in version 2.6.2.RELEASE (2017-04-19)
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 * DATAREST-1050 - Deserialization of request body for creating PUT requests has to consider identifier derived from the URI.