Spring Data 2026.1.0-M2
Spring Data 2026.1.0-M2 released. Highlights:
Initial JPA 4.0 compatibility (using Hibernate 8.0.0.Beta1) while retaining the JPA 3.2 baseline.
Performance refinements in Spring Data JPA JPQL parsers.
Redis JSON API refinements.
Web handler method parameters must be annotated with @ProjectedPayload to enable projection proxying. Unannotated parameters are no longer proxied.
Spring Data Relational fully supports Unicode database identifiers.