SGF-306 - Updated changelog.
SGF-306 - Prepare 1.5.0.RC1 (Evans RC1).
SGF-306 - Release version 1.5.0.RC1 (Evans RC1).
SGF-306 - Prepare next development iteration.
SGF-306 - After release cleanups.
Re-organized SDG dependency version properties in gradle.properties.
Additional changes to the CacheClusterConfigurationIntegrationTest to ascertain the test case (testClusterConfiguration) failure in the Bamboo CI environment.  Modified ProcessExecutor to add to the Java launcher command-line of the forked Java process any System Properties that start with 'spring.gemfire.'  Added a write(:File, contents:String) method to the FileUtils utility class.
Fixed failing Spring GemFire integration tests (whem mocking is disabled) during the Nightly build: CacheNamespaceTest.testCacheWithAutoReconnectEnabled as well as all test cases in the DiskStoreAndEvictionRegionParsingTest test suite class.  The test failures were caused by the introduction of the GemFire 8 dependency and new constraint enforcements. Also made additional modifications and cleanup to the CacheClusterConfigurationIntegrationTests and related classes/components and files in an attempt to get the test passing reliably in the Bamboo CI env.  Seems a race condition is occuring between the time the Locator starts along with when the shared, cluster-based configuration service is actually running and when the GemFire Server date node (test class) requests the shared, persistent, cluster configuration from the Locator.
Implements JIRA task SGF-270 removing the validation logic and restriction on creating concurrent, parallel AsyncEventQueues in GemFire, which is supported in GemFire 8 and above.
Implements JIRA task SGF-269 removing the validation logic and restriction on creating concurrent, parallel GatewaySenders in GemFire, which is supported in GemFire 8 and above.
Adding additional integration tests to test the configuration of concurrent, parallel AsyncEventQueues and GatewaySenders in GemFire 8 using Spring Data GemFire.
Implements JIRA improvement SGF-223 enabling Spring Data GemFire to create GemFire Disk Store directory locations automatically (based on nested <gfe:disk-dir> elements inside the <gfe:disk-store> element specified in Spring config) without the user having to create the disk directories for the location  manually, unlike GemFire's native configuration options (such as cache.xml).
Cleanup to the SDG dependency repository references, preferring Spring IO Repos over external repos (such as dist.gemstone.com). Added conditional logic around the GemFire 8 Distribution Configuration Properties in the CacheFactoryBean in an effort to enable SDG 1.5 to work with GemFire 7.x versions and earlier.  Refactored the GemfireUtils class's logic for detecting GemFire Versions at runtime.
Fixes JIRA bug SGF-312 allowing developers to declare/define and register multiple PartitionListeners on a Partitioned Region using nested inner bean and bean reference elements inside the <gfe:partition-listener> sub-element of the <gfe:partitioned-region> element in the SDG XML namespace (XSD).
Implements JIRA feature request SGF-309 adding support for compression of GemFire Cache Region data using the new Compressor attribute and property in the RegionAttributes API.
Additional code refactoring and cleanup to the strongly-typed, Region Namespace tests.
Initial implementation and tests for JIRA feature requests SGF-207 and SGF-254 supporting inheritable Region templates when defining GemFire Regions using Spring Data GemFire XML configuration meta-data.  This feature allows common Region configuration and attribute values to be defined once and then shared across multiple Region bean definitions in the Spring context for added convenience.
Additional work and changes for JIRA feature requests SGF-207 and SGF-254 to enable developers with the ability to create Region templates to model attributes and configuration meta-data common to multiple, strongly-typed GemFire Region types (e.g. REPLICATE, PARTITION, etc).
Code refactoring and cleanup related to SGF-207 and SGF-254, Region Templates.
Completed Peer Cache Region Template testing for JIRA feature requests SGF-207 and SGF-254 adding support for template-defined Regions.