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 released early next year.

We'd also like to announce that all Spring Data projects are migrating their ticket management from Jira to GitHub issues. Beginning next year, you will find all Jira tickets being migrated into the associated GitHub repository, and we will track issues in GitHub only. Jira will remain as read-only copy.

To round things off, here are the links to each artifact, documentation, and changelog:

• Spring Data Commons 2.5 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data R2DBC 1.3 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 2.5 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Envers 2.5 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 3.5 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 2.5 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.2 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 4.2 M1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog