Release v1.0.0-RC4

Changelog

🚀 Features

• 9c63e8e add projection and map support for aggregations (#539), closes #539
• 2cbc90d add support for indexing nested fields in arrays (#519), closes #519
• 678f955 add lexicographic string comparison support for Redis OM Spring (#526), closes #526
• a9a9a4f add @RedisKey annotation to populate entity fields with Redis keys during search operations (#538), closes #538
• 2288d97 add official null support with indexMissing and indexEmpty options (#527), closes #527
• b78f33f add numeric array membership methods to NumericField (#400), closes #400
• 6db190d docs: integrate Javadoc into Antora documentation site

🐛 Fixes

• 53c2212 add limit support for findTop/findFirst repository methods (#631), closes #630 #631
• f8ded2f handle @NumericIndexed in nested classes within metamodel generator (#613), closes #613
• 3570ccf set source and target compatibility to Java 17 (#616), closes #616
• a1b9a78 handle missing @reference entities gracefully (#607), closes #607
• 1577b26 EqualPredicate changes in 0.9.10 breaking search syntax (#609), closes #609
• 727c3f9 ci: resolve HuggingFace tokenizer failures in CI environments
• 4d94c52 ci: correct gradle command path in docs workflow

🧪 Tests

• 3b31693 add more tests for Nested Array Indexing feature
• a8b6af6 add metamodel generation tests for @NumericIndexed annotation (#613), closes #613

🧰 Tasks

• 7f22d3e pre-release 1.0.0-RC4
• 0e3018d port demos builds to Gradle

📝 Documentation

• 812487e add Spring Boot version requirements and compatibility policy (#632), closes #520 #632
• aa1ff7c add documentation for numeric array containment search methods, closes #400
• 82f6661 Update release process documentation
• cade687 Javadoc for redis-om-spring and redis-om-spring-ai modules

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• c44158d Releasing version 1.0.0-RC4
• bf849e1 Creating demo for Multi-ACL Account (#611), closes #611