On behalf of the Spring Data team, I am happy to announce the first milestone of the Spring Data release train Gosling. The release ships with 164 tickets fixed as well as Spring Data KeyValue joining the Spring Data release train with an initial milestone. The highlights of the release include:

• Spring 4.1 as a new minimum baseline.
• Simplified support for adding custom methods to all repositories throughout the individual modules (see this example).
• Declarative ad-hoc JPA 2.1 fetch graph declarations via @EntityGraph on repository methods.
• Gemfire 8.1 support including multi-index definition operations.
• SpEL expressions in @Query as well as support for $geoIntersects for MongoDB.
• Enhanced ZSET support for Spring Data Redis including ZRANGEBYLEX.
• A Spring Data REST module shipping the HAL browser as well as support for conditional GETs.
• Map-backed repositories (see this example)
• Support for Neo4J 2.2.
• Support for derived deleteBy... queries and bulk updates in Spring Data Elasticsearch.

Here are the participating modules:

• Spring Data Commons 1.11 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 1.9 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 1.8 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 3.4 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Solr 1.5 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 1.4 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Cassandra 1.3 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.3 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Gemfire 1.7 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 1.6 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 2.4 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 1.0 M1 - Artifacts - JavaDocs - Documentation - Changelog

Be sure to check out the already updated examples. Get in touch via Twitter, StackOverflow or JIRA. We're looking forward to your feedback!

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