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.

This release candidate is a good opportunity to give feedback before the actual GA release in mid-April. We look forward to hearing from you.

To round things off, here are the links to the artifacts, changelogs, and documentation:

2021.0.0-RC1

• Spring Data Commons 2.5 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.2 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.5 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.1 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.5 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.5 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.2 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.2 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data R2DBC 1.3 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 2.5 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Envers 2.5 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 3.5 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 2.5 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.2 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 4.2 RC1 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog

2020.0.7

• Spring Data Commons 2.4.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JDBC 2.1.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 2.4.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 6.0.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Geode 2.4.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 2.4.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 3.1.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 3.1.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data R2DBC 1.2.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 2.4.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Envers 2.4.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 3.4.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 2.4.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 4.1.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 4.1.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Solr 4.3.7 - Artifacts - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog