Spring Framework and Spring Security Tutorials (Version 4.x.x)

I am developing an dynamic web project in Eclipse with Spring Framework and Spring Security. What I want to build is a simple login websites, allowing authorized users to access certain pages and data from MySQL database.

But, choosing which version to start with is a big problem to me. Now the latest version is Spring Framework 4.1.6 and Spring Security 4.0.0. However, many Spring tutorials are based on older version (3.x.x). And, after several attempts, I couldn't follow those tutorials because:

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   When I use old tutorials' codes with the latest version Spring, problems occurred.

   
   


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   So, I changed to use the old version Spring, but problems occurred again. (I guess because the old version doesn't support the new JAVA.)

   
   

Could someone please gives me some suggestions? Or some tutorials of the latest version. (I really tried to google it, but the only one I found is the official document, which are too difficult to me.)