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

• M1 - May 3rd, 2013
• RC1 - Aug 5th, 2013
• GA - Sep 9th, 2013
• SR1 - Oct 25th, 2013
• SR2 - Dec 11th, 2013
• SR3 - Feb 17th, 2014
• SR4 - Mar 10th, 2014

Participating modules

Spring Data Build - 1.1

M1 (1.1.0)

• #10 - Upgrade to latest Querydsl (3.x).
• #15 - Raise source compatibility to 1.6.

RC1 (1.1.1)

• #19 - Upgrade to Querydsl 3.2.2.

Spring Data Commons - 1.6

M1

• DATACMNS-117 - HandlerMethodArgumentResolver implementations for Pageable and Sort.
• DATACMNS-286 - Extended Pageable/Page API.
• DATACMNS-281 - General support for ignoring case on Order.
• DATACMNS-303 - Basic support for count…By(…) in derived queries.
• DATACMNS-319 - More lenient lookup of repository beans from Repositories.
• DATACMNS-310 - Integrate best-effort transaction manager from Neo4j module.
• DATACMNS-299, DATACMNS-322 - Improved CDI features.
• DATACMNS-295 - Ability to set modifyOnCreation flag on AuditingHandler.
• DATACMNS-330 - Simplified configuration of web integration.
• DATACMNS-331 - Introduce PagedResourcesAssembler to turn Page instances into PagedResources.
• DATACMNS-333 - Jackson 2 support for repository initializers.

RC1

• DATACMNS-344 - Repositories now also works with non-CrudRepository implementations.
• DATACMNS-350 - Improve extensibility of Parameters/Parameter in repository subsystem.

GA

• DATACMNS-355, DATACMNS-356 - Spring 4 integration improvements (ConversionService in auditing and JDK 8 variable name resolving if present.
• DATACMNS-341 - Repository proxying now uses container provided class loader.
• DATACMNS-357 - Out of the box support for is-new state detection for primitive identifiers.

Spring Data JPA - 1.4

M1

• DATAJPA-231 - Support for Querydsl 3.0.
• DATAJPA-231 - Support for count…By(…) in derived queries.
• DATAJPA-296, DATAJPA-327 - Case insensitive sorting.

RC1

• DATAJPA-170, DATAJPA-368 - Support for SpEL expressions in manually defined queries.
• DATAJPA-348, DATAJPA-269 - Improvements in handling of @IdClass
• DATAJPA-346 - EclipseLink specific fix to avoid full joins on adding sort options to a query.
• DATAJPA-107 - Support for TemporalType on query parameter binding.
• DATAJPA-353 - ClassPathScanningPersistenceUnitPostProcessor now returns mapping file paths as defined in the JPA spec.

GA

• DATAJPA-388 - Added support for @Alternative in EntityManager selection.

Spring Data MongoDB - 1.3

M1

• DATAMONGO-636 - Support for count…By(…) in derived queries.
• DATAMONGO-657 - DBRefs as Map values.
• DATAMONGO-569 - Background attributes for @Indexed and @CompoundIndex.
• DATAMONGO-628 - XML namespace elements for MongoTemplate and GridFsTemplate.
• DATAMONGO-607 - Strategy for abbreviating field names.

RC1

• DATAMONGO-586 - Support for MongoDB aggregation framework.
• DATAMONGO-721 - Improved storage of type information in update cases.
• DATAMONGO-709 - Added support for restricting queries to find only documents of a given type.

Spring Data Neo4j - 2.3

M1

• DATAGRAPH-351 - AnnotationBasedPersistentProperty (to benefit from annotation caching introduced in Spring Data Commons).

RC1

• DATAGRAPH-345 - Support for count…By(…) in derived queries.