diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/arsnova-servlet.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/arsnova-servlet.xml
index 9abd13f4d97fbd9e5d3def289c503144b1cabd3e..2375d536eed0269efab83ea0d46d11e859a13bd9 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/arsnova-servlet.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/arsnova-servlet.xml
@@ -1,14 +1,13 @@
 <?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:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
-	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
 	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
 	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-4.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd">
+	xsi:schemaLocation="
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.1.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.1.xsd">
 
 	<!-- ARSnova Servlet Context -->
 
diff --git a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-main.xml b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-main.xml
index 72c2beb317bdb698307f671547a7a5258f53b26a..98521a822aea86acbc3df072aa07e9d567997218 100644
--- a/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-main.xml
+++ b/src/main/webapp/WEB-INF/spring/spring-main.xml
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 <?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"
-	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p" xmlns:util="http://www.springframework.org/schema/util"
-	xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc" xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"
+	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 	xmlns:aop="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop"
-	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-4.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc-4.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-4.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/util http://www.springframework.org/schema/util/spring-util-4.0.xsd
-		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.0.xsd">
+	xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
+	xmlns:task="http://www.springframework.org/schema/task"
+	xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
+	xsi:schemaLocation="
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop http://www.springframework.org/schema/aop/spring-aop-4.1.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-4.1.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/context http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context-4.1.xsd
+		http://www.springframework.org/schema/task http://www.springframework.org/schema/task/spring-task-4.1.xsd">
 
 	<bean id="propertyPlaceholderConfigurer"
 		class="org.springframework.beans.factory.config.PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer"