3.4.0-RC1

📗 Links

• Spring Data Relational 3.4 Reference documentation
• Spring Data Relational 3.4 Javadoc

⭐ New Features

• Add support for value expressions in repository query methods #1904
• Refactor StringBasedJdbcQuery to no longer require BeanFactory #1872
• Add Template method to R2dbcEntityTemplate to post-process GenericExecuteSpec for e.g. a filter function #1652
• Change Iterable<T> to List<T> return types for Repository and Template API methods #1623

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Query method with bind parameter List<byte[]> does no longer work #1900
• ConversionFailedException on generic Entity Id and custom converter #1842

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to R2DBC Postgres 1.0.7.RELEASE #1913
• Upgrade to R2DBC MySQL 1.3.0 #1911
• Upgrade to R2DBC Postgresql 1.0.6 #1910
• Upgrade Oracle JDBC driver to 23.5.0.24.07 #1890
• Upgrade MySql JDBC driver to 8.0.33 #1889
• Upgrade MS SqlServer JDBC driver to 12.8.1.jre11 #1888
• Upgrade Maria DB JDBC driver to 3.4.1 #1887
• Upgrade HSQLDB to 2.7.3 #1886
• Upgrade DB2 JDBC driver to 11.5.9.0 #1885
• Upgrade H2 to 2.3.232 #1884

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

• @mipo256
• @marcingrzejszczak
• @ngocnhan-tran1996