On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce a new milestone for the next Spring Data generation. The second milestone continues delivering new features and refinement mostly around infrastructure themes.

JSpecify

Spring Data is gradually migrating from Spring's Nullability annotations to JSpecify. The following projects are equipped with JSpecify annotations:

• Commons
• JPA
• MongoDB
• LDAP
• Cassandra
• KeyValue
• Elasticsearch

Other modules will follow suit.

JPA Refinements

Apart from JSpecify, Spring Data JPA ships with a few refinements around the QueryEnhancer and sorting using Specifications.

You can now configure a QueryEnhancerSelector through @EnableJpaRepositories to select which QueryEnhancerFactory (parser and rewrite utility for JPQL and native queries) to use instead of relying on our defaulting and auto-detection of JSqlParser.

With that change, the previously used spring.data.jpa.query.native.parser flag in spring.properties has been removed.

A selected set of expressions can now be used with JpaSort.unsafe(…) together with Specifications. The newly introduced parser for ORDER BY expressions translates ORDER BY items to JPA's Criteria API Expressions as much as possible. ORDER BY parsing can translate simple path expressions, function calls and CASE clauses. Any more complex ordering items (TREAT, CAST, nested queries) should be provided directly to CriteriaQuery.

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

2025.1.0-M2

• Spring Data Commons 4.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 4.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 4.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 5.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 8.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 5.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 4.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 5.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 4.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 6.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Couchbase 6.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Relational 4.0 M2 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog