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@@ -161,6 +161,17 @@ Naturally -- this being a Spring Framework sub-project -- we will use Spring to
 In order to use the custom XML namespace for configuring the Spring LDAP components you need to include references to this namespace in your XML declaration as in the example above.
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+=== What's new in 2.1?
+
+For complete details of 2.1 refer to the https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/issues?q=milestone%3A2.1.0.RC1[changelog]
+The highlights of Spring LDAP 2.1 can be found below.
+
+* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/issues/351[#351] - Support for commons-pool2
+* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/issues/370[#370] - Support property placeholders in XML Namespace
+* https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/pull/392[#392] - Document Testing Support
+* Migrated from JIRA to https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-ldap/issues[GitHub Issues]
+* Added https://gitter.im/spring-projects/spring-ldap[Gitter Chat]
+
 === What's new in 2.0?
 While quite significant modernizations have been made to the Spring LDAP API in version 2.0, great care has been taken to ensure backward compatibility as far as possible.
 Code that works with Spring LDAP 1.3.x should with very few exceptions still compile and run using the 2.0 libraries without any modifications whatsoever.