5.1.0

📗 Links

• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 5.1.0 Reference documentation
• Spring Data for Apache Cassandra 5.1.0 Javadoc

⭐ New Features

• Extract common configuration of converter, mapping context and the initial entity set into CassandraConfiguration utility class #1643
• Retrofit Query and Update API accepting TypedPropertyPath #1626
• Retrofit Query and Update API accepting TypedPropertyPath #1625
• Migrate to JSpecify annotations for nullability constraints #1549
• Add @Transient properties to PersistentEntity and use value defaulting for transient constructor properties #2985

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SELECT function calls do not translate composite or embeddable column selectors correctly #1659
• Return proxied Statement from ObservationStatement mutator calls #1652
• ObservationRequestTracker remains open for observed Cassandra statements #1651
• Using Pageable.unpaged() for paginated queries returning Slice\<T\> results in exception #1636
• OptimisticLockingUtils fails with IllegalStateException when constructing OptimisticLockingFailureException using flat composite primary keys #1635

📔 Documentation

• Consistent OptimisticLockingFailureException exception message #1627
• Misleading links in repositories reference documentation overview #3463
• Refine Antora-build #2797
• Add Readme templates #2758

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Maven Wrapper 3.9.16 #1656
• Upgrade to Cassandra Driver 4.19.3 #1653
• Upgrade to Cassandra driver 4.19.2 #1628

❤️ Contributors

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

• @BenEfrati