4.0.0-M6

📗 Links

• Spring Data JPA 4.0 Reference documentation
• Spring Data JPA 4.0 Javadoc

⭐ New Features

• Reintroduce Specification.where(Specification) #3998
• Add possbility to return Entity from delete<...>ById(id: MyId) method #3995
• Reintroduce Specification.where(Specification) #3992

🐞 Bug Fixes

• JPQL /* ... */ comments in @Query fail to parse when migrating from Spring Boot 3.3.5 to Spring Boot 3.5.5 / Spring Data JPA (HQL parser mismatch on /) #3997
• Qualify identifier used in SimpleJpaRepository.deleteAllByIdInBatch(…) JPQL #3993
• EclipseLink fails resolving unqualified identifier property using IN on batch delete by Id #3990
• Type Constraint Mismatch in QueryByExampleExecutor.findBy() #3986
• Optimized QueryUtils.applyAndBind(…) using IN(entities)does not work with EclipseLink #3983
• ExpressionBasedStringQuery does not expand #{#entityName} for native queries #3979

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Eclipselink 5.0.0-B10 #4006

❤️ Contributors

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

• @nam0oo
• @pmh5574