Release Train Fowler

This page contains a list of the most significant features and bugfixes implemented in the Spring Data Evans release train that will not be back-ported into Evans service releases.

• M1 - Dec 1st 2014
• RC1 - TBA, 2015
• GA - TBA, 2015

Core themes

• Spring Data GemFire support of GemFire 8.

Participating modules

1. Spring Data Build 1.6
2. Spring Data Commons 1.10
3. Spring Data JPA 1.8
4. Spring Data MongoDB 1.7
5. Spring Data Neo4j 3.3
6. Spring Data Solr 1.4
7. Spring Data Elasticsearch 1.2
8. Spring Data Couchbase 1.3
9. Spring Data Cassandra 1.2
10. Spring Data Gemfire 1.6
11. Spring Data Redis 1.5
12. Spring Data REST 2.3

Spring Data Build - 1.6

• #115 - Upgrade to Spring 4.0.8.
• #119 - Upgrade dependencies (most notably: JodaTime 2.5).
• #128 - Upgrade to Querydsl 3.6.0.

Spring Data Commons - 1.10

M1

• DATACMNS-606 - Converters for JSR-310 date/time types to Date.
• DATACMNS-578 - Improve entity instantiation performance using byte-code generation.
• DATACMNS-587 - New method findAll(OrderSpecifier<?>... orders) on QueryDslPredicateExcecutor.
• DATACMNS-596 - Introduced PersistentPropertyAccessor API.
• DATACMNS-599 - Introduced IdentifierAccessor API.
• DATACMNS-589 - Improved RepositoryInvoker API (ported from Spring Data REST).
• DATACMNS-581 - Support for NOT_CONTAINING keyword.

Spring Data JPA - 1.8

• DATAJPA-635 - Support for QueryDslPredicateExcecutor.findAll(OrderSpecifier<?>... orders).
• DATAJPA-523 - Specifications is now Serializable.
• DATAJPA-629 - Improvements in SpEL support.
• DATAJPA-619 - Persistence metadata now considers JPA access type annotations.
• DATAJPA-617 - Improved named query lookups.
• DATAJPA-612 - Support for @EntityGraph on CRUD methods.

Spring Data MongoDB - 1.7

M1

• DATAMONGO-1102 - Support for JSR-310 date/time types in domain types.
• DATAMONGO-1075 - Improve support for CONTAINS keyword on collection like properties.
• DATAMONGO-1105 - Support for QueryDslPredicateExcecutor.findAll(OrderSpecifier<?>... orders).
• DATAMONGO-1101, DATAMONGO-1097, DATAMONGO-943 - Support for $bit, $mul and $position operator in Update.
• DATAMONGO-1092 - Compatibility with MongoDB 2.8.0 RC0 and Java driver 2.13.0 RC0.

Spring Data Neo4j - 3.3

• DATAGRAPH-483 - REST transaction support.
• DATAGRAPH-253 - Faster HTTP remoting / Remove java-rest-binding dependency.
• DATAGRAPH-482 - Allow to override property-name with @GraphProperty.
• DATAGRAPH-525 - Update to Neo4j 2.1.5
• DATAGRAPH-523 - Added option to disable REST schema upload.
• DATAGRAPH-515 - Remove graph-collections dependency.

Spring Data Solr - 1.4

• DATASOLR-95 - Add support for realtime get (kudos @franciscospaeth)
• DATASOLR-147 - Upgrade to Solr 4.10.1 (requires Java 7)
• DATASOLR-160 - Add Support to Stats for Fields (kudos @franciscospaeth)
• DATASOLR-163 - Ensure mapping context gets exposed for Spring Data REST.

Spring Data Elasticsearch - 1.2

M1

• DATAES-94 - Upgrade to Elasticsearch 1.2 and driver.
• DATAES-76 - Add support for mapping generation of inherited fields.

Spring Data Couchbase - 1.3

M1

• DATACOUCH-113 - Improved support with Spring 4.1.

Spring Data Cassandra - 1.2

• DATACASS-164 - Support for strongly-typed, user-defined promary key interfaces.
• DATACASS-149 - Support for CDI repositories.

Spring Data Gemfire - 1.6

M1

• SGF-309 - Enables GemFire 8 Region Data Compression
• SGF-291, SGF-342 - Full support for GemFire 8.
• SGF-269, SGF-270 - Allowing concurrent, parallel AsyncEventQueues and GatewaySenders.
• SGF-227 - Support for 'Auto-reconnect' functionality.
• SGF-226 - Cluster-based Configuration.

Spring Data Redis - 1.5

M1

• DATAREDIS-308 - Support for HyperLogLog (only when using jedis).

Spring Data REST - 2.3

M1

• DATAREST-160 - Direct support for JPA @Version or similar alternative.
• DATAREST-385 - Projection definitions propagate into type hierarchy.