4.5.0-M1

📗 Links

• Spring Data MongoDB 4.5 Reference documentation
• Spring Data MongoDB 4.5 Javadoc

⭐ New Features

• Add support for findBy(…) using predicate that returns a Slice #4889
• $slice does not support AggregationExpression for offset and itemCount #4857
• Improve reactive Repository save operation flow #4838
• Trim BindableMongoExpression input to better support text blocks #4821
• Add support for VectorSearch Aggregation Stage #4706

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Improper identifier property detection on reading entity with annotated identifier property #4877
• Worst Logger for #mongoTemplate.find #4860
• Creating IndexOptions using expireAfter method sets wrong options #4851
• Criteria with is and another filter for the same field creates invalid query doucment #4850
• TTL index creation/verification fails when @Indexed(expireAfter) expression result in 0 seconds #4844
• NPE when projecting to an interface using String-based Aggregation Repository Query Methods #4839

📔 Documentation

• Refine Querydsl documentation #4894
• Document Querydsl annotation processor usage #4811

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to MongoDB driver 5.3.1 #4883
• Upgrade to MongoDB driver 5.3.0-beta0 #4871

❤️ Contributors

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

• @gbaso