On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m delighted to announce the first milestone of the 2025.0.0 release train. If you are confused how on earth a milestone of 2025.0.0 can ship after an earlier 2025.1.0 milestone, rest assured, we are too, at times. Calver versioning is based off the actual release date. 2025.0 will go GA in May while 2025.1 is planned for November. Since we started working on the major release 2025.1 last year already, we were able to ship a first milestone in January. Hopefully, this explanation helps to clear up any confusion.

This milestone ships with enhancements, bugfixes, and dependency upgrades. This is a curated list of new and noteworthy changes in this release:

• Vector domain type to represent AI embeddings using floating points and store-native Vector types.
• MongoDB Vector Search support through MongoDB Atlas.
• Cassandra 5 support and Cassandra Vector Search support.
• Not, NotIn, and NotLike keyword support for Map-based KeyValue repositories.

You can find more details in our Release Notes.

The upcoming Spring Boot milestone will pick up the release for your convenience by next week.

2025.0.0-M1

• Spring Data Commons 3.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 5.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Relational 3.5 M1 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog