On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce a Spring Data double release: Neumann SR9 and 2020.0.8. Both releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades. The service releases will be picked up by the upcoming Spring Boot 2.3.10 and 2.4.5 releases, respectively. Finally, here are the links to the documentation, artifacts, and changelogs:

Neumann SR9

• Spring Data Commons 2.3.9 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.0.9 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.3.9 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.0.9 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.0.9 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 5.3.9 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.3.9 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.3.9 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Dear Spring community,

On behalf of the Spring Data team and our contributors, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2021.0.0 (Codename: Pascal) is generally available from Maven Central. This release ships with features, bugfixes, and improvements that contain numerous version and driver upgrades. Note that Spring Data Solr is no longer part of the Spring Data Release Train.

This curated overview summarizes the most significant changes:

• Introduce deleteAllById for CrudRepository and ReactiveCrudRepository.
• Use Spring Core JFR (Java Flight Recorder) metrics.
• QueryByExample for R2DBC and Oracle.
• Enable type- and refactoring-safe use of KProperty and KPropertyPath for property path rendering.
• Embedded Document support & relaxed Aggregation type checks for MongoDB.
• Cassandra prepared statements.
• Repository projections & function execution for Apache Geode.
• Remove Spring Data Solr from release train.
• Support for jMolecules.
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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data releases 2021.0.0-RC1 and 2020.0.7.

If you use Spring Boot and want to upgrade to 2021.0.0-RC1 or 2020.0.7, set the spring-data-bom.version` property accordingly.

While the service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades, the release candidate contains a few noteworthy changes:

• Improved error messages and exceptions if a repository cannot be created.
• Support @Value meta-annotations on persistence constructor parameters.
• Add support for projections inside the Neo4j templates and CypherDsl executors.
• Consider @Column- and @Element-annotated constructor parameters with Cassandra.
• Add support to Redis Streams by using Jedis Client and upgrade to Jedis 3.6.0-RC1 and Lettuce 6.1.0.RELEASE.
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On behalf of the team, I’m pleased to announce the availability of the Spring Data releases 2021.0.0-M5, 2020.0.6, and Neumann SR8.

2021.0.0-M5 and 2020.0.6 will be picked up by Spring Boot 2.5.0-M3 and 2.4.4, respectively, in the next few days. If you use Spring Boot 2.3 and want to upgrade to Neumann SR8, set the spring-data-releasetrain.version property to Neumann-SR8.

While the service releases ship with mostly bug fixes and dependency upgrades, the milestone contains a few noteworthy changes:

• Support for the jMolecules' Association type.
• Reactive support for SearchTemplate using Elasticsearch.
• Redis Streams support using the Jedis client.
• Spring Data R2DBC support for Query by Example and Oracle.
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On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of the Spring Vault service release 2.3.1.

This release ships with mostly bugfixes, dependency upgrades, and selected features.

For a complete list of changes, see the 2.3.1 changelog.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Release 2.3.1 on GitHub | Documentation for 2.3.1 | Stack Overflow

Spring Data has migrated its entire history of issues from Jira to GitHub. The goal of this blog post is to give you context and details about this migration.

Migration Details

Spring Data issues have been managed for over ten years in Jira. Today, every issue and every comment has been imported into GitHub. There is a lot to consider in such a move, so let's take a tour and go over some details.

Spring Data consists of 19 individual projects, each one of which is associated with its own issue tracker namespace. Four projects (Spring Data Build, BOM, Envers, and R2DBC) have been using GitHub…

On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of Spring Vault service release 2.2.3.RELEASE.

This release ships with mostly bugfixes, dependency upgrades, and selected features.

For a complete list of changes, see the 2.2.3.RELEASE changelog.

Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Release 2.2.3.RELEASE on GitHub | Documentation for 2.2.3.RELEASE | Stack Overflow

On behalf of the community, I’d like to announce the availability of the first Spring Vault release candidate 2.3.0-RC1.

This release contains a series of changes:

• Updated SecretLeaseContainer endpoints using now /sys/leases instead of /sys/revoke and /sys/renew.

• Introduction of AuthenticationStepsOperator which allows non-blocking access to Resource. This change also introduces a reloading capability for authentication mechanisms for PCF and Kubernetes authentication to obtain the latest credentials when attempting a Vault login.

• Support for KV Patch in VaultTemplate

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3, Spring Data 2020.0, and Project Reactor 2020.0

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On behalf of the Spring Data team, I'd like to announce the availability of the 2020.0.2, Neumann-SR6, and Moore-SR12 service releases. These releases pick up Spring Framework 5.3.2 and 5.2.12 and will be included in the upcoming Spring Boot releases. 2020.0.2 ships with 58 tickets fixed, Neumann-SR6 ships with 36 tickets fixed, and, finally, Moore-SR12 ships with 26 tickets fixed.

The releases ship with selected improvements, bug fixes, and dependency upgrades.

Here are the detailed links to each individual artifact and the reference documentation:

2020.0.2

• Spring Data Commons 2.4.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.1.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.4.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.4.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.1.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.4.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.0.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.1.2 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who contributed, I'd like to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data 2021.0.0 release train. This release ships with over 100 tickets fixed. This Spring Data release is the next release to use calver.

The most notable new features are:

• Support for deleteAllById(Iterable<ID>) in CrudRepository and ReactiveCrudRepository
• Usage of Prepared Statements for CassandraTemplate and repository queries, including index-based parameter bindings
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7.10.0

You can find the entire roadmap, including a curated change selection, on the 2021.0.0 release wiki page. We're working now towards a second milestone that will be…