Compatibility Issue with Spring Data Couchbase and Couchbase Client 3.6.2 about spring-data-couchbase HOT 3 OPEN

@maksutspahi

I'm not understanding why/how spring-boot-depdendencies version 3.3.1 specifies Couchbase Client version 3.6.2. Why doesn't it just rely on spring-data-couchbase for that? Which has the depdendency of Couchbase Client version 3.6.0.
That is the only version that we build and test with.

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Spring Boot's dependency management includes 3.6.2 as it's the latest patch release of the client. Our goal is to keep third-party dependencies up-to-date so that users can benefit from the latest bug fixes.

Spring Boot includes auto-configuration for both Couchbase (CouchbaseAutoConfiguration) and Spring Data Couchbase (CouchbaseDataAutoConfiguration and CouchbaseReactiveDataAutoConfiguration). This leaves us in a tricky situation as we can either hold bug fixes back from those only using the former or have an incompatibility that affects some users of the latter. Neither's ideal.

I think there are a few options here. In order of preference, they are:

1. Updates are made to the Couchbase Client and 3.6.3 is released that's backwards compatible with 3.6.1 and 3.6.0
2. Updates are made to Spring Data Couchbase so that it's compatible with the breaking changes in 3.6.2
3. Spring Boot downgrades back to 3.6.0

I'd really like to avoid 3 as it just hides the problem rather than solving it. Anyone who is using Spring Data Couchbase and needs to pick up a bug fix that was made in 3.6.2 will potentially be unable to do so due to the incompatibility. Furthermore, any Spring Boot users who's not using Spring Data Couchbase or is not affected by the current incompatibility will then be exposed to bugs that have already been fixed and will have to manually upgrade.

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Tracking on the Couchbase SDK side as https://issues.couchbase.com/browse/JVMCBC-1540

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