OpenSymphony and the Compass team are pleased to announce the release of version 1.1 M2. This is the second milestone release of version 1.1, major features include:

• Support Unmarshall: Allowing to disable Compass support for unmarshalling objects from the search engine. This feature enable Compass not to store extra information in the index, and use much less memory.
• Dynamic Meta Data: Allows to define syntactic indexable content using scripting/expression languages like ognl, groovy, velocity, commons-el and commons-jexl.
• Simplified API usage when working within a transaction, including @CompassContext support in Spring. This feature is explained here, here, and here.
• Support for the latest Hibernate and Spring versions.