Spring Data 4.0 (2025.1.x) Development Branches

[Mark Paluch]

Dear Spring Data Community,

we've created branches for the next major Spring Data development line 2025.1.x (Spring Data 4.0) that will ship GA in November 2025. Please find version branches with a naming `4.0.x` (or the according major version number) in your repository. All branches were adopted to API removals of previously deprecated API in Spring Data Commons.

You can consume Spring Data Commons 4.0.0 snapshots from our snapshot repository if you're running a Spring Data project not hosted under the spring-projects GitHub org.

We intend to switch to Spring Framework 7.0 snapshots in the upcoming days to follow Framework development closely.

We recommend frequent rebasing so you can keep branches up to date to not miss commits from your `main` branch. So that you know, keeping your branch up to date is your responsibility if you're a module project lead.

Feel free to let us know if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

We plan to ship the first milestone by Jan 17, 2025.

Cheers,
Mark