Spring can recognize the correct version of the schemas from the dependencies. Hence, it is no longer necessary to use version numbers in the schema references. The following class snippet shows an example of this:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
    http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/
      http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-
      context.xsd">
      <!-- Other bean definitions-->
    </beans>

The preceding snippet does not specify a Spring version. It is generic. This will not need to change even when you upgrade your Spring version.