New & Noteworthy

What’s New in Spring Data R2DBC 1.3.0

Deprecate Spring Data R2DBC DatabaseClient and move off deprecated API in favor of Spring R2DBC. Consult the Migration Guide for further details.
Support for [entity-callbacks].
Auditing through @EnableR2dbcAuditing.
Support for @Value in persistence constructors.
Support for Oracle’s R2DBC driver.

Introduction of R2dbcEntityTemplate for entity-oriented operations.
Query derivation.
Support interface projections with DatabaseClient.as(…).
Support for ExecuteFunction and StatementFilterFunction via DatabaseClient.filter(…).

Upgrade to R2DBC 0.8.0.RELEASE.
@Modifying annotation for query methods to consume affected row count.
Repository save(…) with an associated ID completes with TransientDataAccessException if the row does not exist in the database.
Added SingleConnectionConnectionFactory for testing using connection singletons.
Support for {spring-framework-ref}/core.html#expressions[SpEL expressions] in @Query.
ConnectionFactory routing through AbstractRoutingConnectionFactory.
Utilities for schema initialization through ResourceDatabasePopulator and ScriptUtils.
Propagation and reset of Auto-Commit and Isolation Level control through TransactionDefinition.
Support for Entity-level converters.
Kotlin extensions for reified generics and Coroutines.
Add pluggable mechanism to register dialects.
Support for named parameters.
Initial R2DBC support through DatabaseClient.
Initial Transaction support through TransactionalDatabaseClient.
Initial R2DBC Repository Support through R2dbcRepository.
Initial Dialect support for Postgres and Microsoft SQL Server.