First milestone of next-generation Spring Data released
On behalf of the Spring Data team, I’d like to announce the first milestone of the Kay release train. This is a special release train as it's going to ship a new generation of Spring Data that will include a couple of breaking changes going forward.
Infrastructure upgrades
The first and most noticeable change is the upgrade to Java 8 as a minimum baseline (no JDK 6 compatibility anymore) and an upgrade to Spring 5 as framework foundation. In subsequent milestones we're going to ship some significant internal rewrites that will also affect user facing API to make use of the new language…