On behalf of everyone who has contributed, it is my pleasure to announce the first milestone release of Spring Data 2023.1 being available from our repo.spring.io/milestone repository now. This release introduces the main themes for the 2023.1 generation, with initial features for all of our themes:

• Embracing JDK 21 LTS
• Support for Kotlin Value Classes
• Limit support for Repository Query Methods
• Schema and SpEL support for Spring Data JDBC

Check out our release notes about the specific features across our protfolio and the individual modules. The upcoming Spring Boot 3.2 M1 milestone integrates with this milestone release. Please give 2023.1.0-M1 an early try and let us know how it goes, helping us to shape it up towards general availability in November!

Finally, here are the links to the individual store modules' artifacts:

• Spring Data Commons 3.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 5.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Relational 3.2 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog