Release Date: May 05, 2026

Improvements

• Update AEL documentation. [CLIENT-4563]
• Update client to use shared-workflows setup-aerospike-server action for testing. [CLIENT-4715]
• AEL Support unknown and error keywords. [CLIENT-4654]
• AEL Implement exists() function. [CLIENT-4655]
• AEL Correct name identifiers. [CLIENT-4493]
• Upgrade bcprov-jdk18on to 1.84. Upgrade snakeyaml to 2.6. Upgrde commons-cli to 1.11.0.

Full Changelog: v0.9.0-alpha.1...v0.9.0-alpha.2

Release Date: April 29, 2026

Highlights

Initial preview release of the Developer SDK for Java.

New features

• Fluent API: Chainable, language-native methods for all operations.

• Aerospike Expression Language (AEL) Queries: Natural language-style filter expressions.

• Behavior Configuration: Pre-built operational profiles (DEFAULT, READ_FAST, STRICTLY_CONSISTENT) with support for custom derived behaviors.

• Intelligent Error Handling: Actionable errors with recovery suggestions.

• Decoupled Configuration: Separate connection from operational behavior.

Supported operations

• Single-record: insert, get, update, delete, exists.

• Batch: batch read, batch write, batch delete.

• Query: Aerospike Expression Language (AEL)-based filtering, secondary index queries.

• Async: Full async support via CompletableFuture.

Unsupported operations

• HyperLogLog

• Geospatial queries

• Bitwise operation

• String library calls

• Standardized logging

• Enhanced metrics

Full Changelog: https://github.com/aerospike/aerospike-client-java-sdk/commits/v0.9.0-alpha.1