If you've worked with data access in Java and especially with Spring Data for a while, then you are familiar with various Query and Update programming models. You write data access code. You refactor a property name. You run your tests. They fail. Your query strings? Still pointing to the old property name because strings don't refactor.

Sort.by("firstName", "lastName");

where("address.country").is(…);

Query construction often involves referencing domain properties by strings, whether for predicates, sorting, or path navigation. This approach is simple and intentionally lightweight. It…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m delighted to announce the first milestone of the 2026.0.0 release train.

Support for Type-Safe Property Paths

We now support type-safe property paths and property references as initiative to reduce the need for stringly-typed programming when referring to properties within an entity.

Java variants:

PropertyPath.from("name", Person.class) // existing String-based API
PropertyPath.of(Person::getName) // type-safe property reference expression

PropertyPath.from("address.country", Person.class) // existing nested path API
PropertyPath.of…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.1.3 and 2025.0.9 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

2025.1.3

• Spring Data Commons 4.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 4.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 8.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 5.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 5.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 4.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 4.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 5.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 4.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 6.0.3 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Back in September 2016, nearly a decade ago now, we introduced Spring Vault as a integration layer for HashiCorp Vault within Spring applications, complemented by Spring Cloud Vault for Spring Boot arrangements. The core idea has always been straightforward: Externalizing secrets to encrypted Vault storage to reduce application-side complexity considerably, especially by leveraging Vault's secure primitives for communication and authentication.

VaultTemplate and its reactive counterpart ReactiveVaultTemplate have served us well, providing a familiar Java-based programming interface for…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.1.1, 2025.0.7 and 2024.1.13 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades and bug fixes.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

End of Open Source support for Spring Data 2024.1.x (3.3.x generation)

Spring Data 2024.1.13 marks the end of open source support for Spring Data 2024.1.x (used by Spring Boot 3.3.x). Please upgrade to Spring Data 2025.1.x or 2025.0.x at your earliest convenience. If you are not yet ready to upgrade, commercial support for Spring Data 2024.1.x…

On behalf of the team, it is my very great pleasure to announce that Spring Vault 4.0 is now generally available from Maven Central.

This release ships with several refinements and new features. Highlights of the new release include:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0 as baseline upgrade
• Support for Spring Framework's RestClient
• Upgrade to Jackson 3 (preserving Jackson 2 compatibility)
• Support for Reactor, Jetty, and JDK ClientHttpRequestFactory implementations

Head over to the release notes page in our wiki to find out more details. Thanks to everyone who has contributed to Spring Vault over…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.0.6 and 2024.1.12 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades and bug fixes.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

2025.0.6

• Spring Data Commons 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.5.6 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

Dear Spring Data community,

On behalf of the data team, it is my pleasure to announce that Spring Data 2025.1 is generally available from Maven Central now! The 4.0 generation comes with several key themes:

• Upgrade to Spring Framework 7
• Upgrade to Jakarta EE 11 (JPA 3.2, Servlet 6.1)
• Ahead-of-Time Repositories
• Comprehensive null safety through JSpecify
• Add support for Jackson 3
• Vector Search Methods

Ahead-of-Time Repositories bring the benefits of AOT compilation to Spring Data repositories, enabling faster startup times and reduced memory consumption for applications using Spring Data JPA…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I’m pleased to announce the availability of 2025.0.4 and 2024.1.10 service releases. These releases ship with dependency upgrades, fixes for regressions and selected improvements.

The upcoming Spring Boot releases will pick up the above releases by next week.

2025.0.4

• Spring Data Commons 3.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data JPA 3.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Neo4j 7.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 4.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data KeyValue 3.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data LDAP 3.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data REST 4.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Redis 3.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - Changelog
• Spring Data Elasticsearch 5.5.4 - Javadoc - Documentation - …

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I am pleased to announce the sixth and last milestone for the next Spring Data generation. This milestone continues delivering new features, refinements, and dependency upgrades.

Removed MongoDB UUID and BigDecimal Defaults

Spring Data MongoDB now aligns with the MongoDB Java Driver and no longer defaults to a representation for UUID values. Instead, you need to explicitly configure the desired representation through driver settings.

We're also no longer providing a default configuration value for BigInteger and resort the default for BigDecimal to Decimal128 in accordance with MongoDB's default codecs. This is a much safer approach that prevents you your application from accidentally switching representations when upgrading to the new major version. Please make sure to configure formats for big numbers through MongoCustomConversions…