⭐ New Features

• Allow ContainerConnectionDetailsFactory to match on one of multiple different connection names #41543
• Add support for Postgres trust host auth method with Docker Compose #41511
• Add utility class to help write JSON #41489
• Deprecate LOGGED_APPLICATION_NAME log property in favor of APPLICATION_NAME with the verbatim value #41444
• Remove APIs that were deprecated for removal in 3.4 #41435
• Register Base64ProtocolResolver as protocol resolver by default #41433
• Deprecate spring.gson.lenient in favor of a new spring.gson.strictness property #41430
• Support untrusted CNB builders when building images #41352
• Group Kafka back-off properties #41335
• Support service connections for redis/redis-stack and redis/redis-stack-server #41327
• Publish an AuditEvent on logout #41278
• Add memory info to ProcessInfo #41262
• Add test auto-configuration for MockMvcTester #41198
• Raise the minimum supported version of Gradle to 7.6.4+ or 8.3+ #41180
• Auto-configure SpringLiquibase with Liquibase Customizer #40986
• Provide auto-configurations for OpenTelemetry Logs #40961
• Make it easier to provide a custom RequestToViewNameTranslator #40874
• Use Paketo tiny builder by default for JVM and native apps #40859
• Add support for org.testcontainers.kafka.KafkaContainer #40695
• Add a customizer for ProxyConnectionFactory.Builder from r2dbc-proxy #40555
• Add a customizer for Lettuce's ClientOptions #40484
• Align cascade behavior of @Validated @ConfigurationProperties with the bean validation spec #40345
• Add support for webjars-locator-lite #40146
• Add SslBundle support to MailSender #40037
• Add standardized property to distinguish a group of applications #39957
• Deprecate @MockBean and @SpyBean #39864
• Use native connection factory with JMS message listener containers #39816
• Provide a callback that enables customization of the properties used to create the JCache CacheManager #39350
• Allow NestedConfigurationProperty on getters #38844
• Add property to specify Docker Compose startup and shutdown flags #38763
• Disable trace exporting via properties #34620
• Support structured logging as alternative to pattern layout logging #5479

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Spring Authorization Server now defaults multipleIssuersAllowed to false and it cannot be easily re-enabled #41544
• ServiceConnection does not work with @DataLdapTest #41525
• No configuration property for defaultTimeout setting that was introduced in Spring Integration 6.2 #41522
• NPE during auto-configuration in OnClassCondition.resolveOutcomesThreaded because firstHalf is null #41505
• @NestedConfigurationProperty doesn't work on records #41317
• PropertiesMigrationListener wrongly reports property as deprecated #41253
• TestcontainersLifecycleBeanPostProcessor does not work correctly with scoped beans #41239
• Error message can be misleading if spring.config.import fails to resolve #41237
• build-image failures after docker desktop update with 'Illegal char <:> at index 5: npipe:////' #41235
• When using Jetty, filters, listeners, and servlets are not initialized with the same thread context classloader #41226
• DirtiesContext used with Webflux, a random port and multiple contexts causes multiple contexts to misbehave #41222
• NoSuchMethodException on org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory.<init> when using spring-boot-starter-activemq in a native image #41215
• Failure during test AOT processing when multiple merged context configurations result in the Logback model being written multiple times #36997

📔 Documentation

• Fix documentation links in the README #41546
• Document the types to which each spring.mvc.format and spring.webflux.format property applies #41519
• Document that logging.file.name and logging.file.path cannot be used together #41517
• Refine CDS how-to guide #41467
• Fix typos in javadoc of BootstrapContext #41449
• CDS link in "Efficient Deployments" documentation is broken #41322
• Update Kotlin DSL examples that configure the environment of bootBuildImage to be additive #41271
• Document tracing support for RestClient #41193
• Documentation wrongly states that zipkin-sender-urlconnection is needed #41190

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Artemis 2.35.0 #41400
• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.22.1 #41475
• Upgrade to AssertJ 3.26.3 #41437
• Upgrade to Build Helper Maven Plugin 3.6.0 #41402
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.18 #41385
• Upgrade to Commons Codec 1.17.1 #41528
• Upgrade to Crac 1.5.0 #41404
• Upgrade to Dependency Management Plugin 1.1.6 #41386
• Upgrade to Flyway 10.15.2 #41387
• Upgrade to Git Commit ID Maven Plugin 9.0.1 #41406
• Upgrade to GraphQL Java 22.1 #41341
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.22 #41388
• Upgrade to Gson 2.11.0 #41407
• Upgrade to H2 2.3.230 #41538
• Upgrade to HtmlUnit 4.3.0 #41408
• Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.2.5 #41389
• Upgrade to Jackson Bom 2.17.2 #41390
• Upgrade to JBoss Logging 3.6.0.Final #41409
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.11 #41391
• Upgrade to JsonAssert 1.5.3 #41392
• Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 5.10.3 #41393
• Upgrade to Kafka 3.7.1 #41394
• Upgrade to Liquibase 4.28.0 #41194
• Upgrad...

🐞 Bug Fixes

• No configuration property for defaultTimeout setting that was introduced in Spring Integration 6.2 #41521
• NPE during auto-configuration in OnClassCondition.resolveOutcomesThreaded because firstHalf is null #41504
• Spring Authorization Server now defaults multipleIssuersAllowed to false and it cannot be easily re-enabled #41355
• ServiceConnection does not work with @DataLdapTest #41325
• PropertiesMigrationListener wrongly reports property as deprecated #41252
• @NestedConfigurationProperty doesn't work on records #41251
• TestcontainersLifecycleBeanPostProcessor does not work correctly with scoped beans #41238
• Error message can be misleading if spring.config.import fails to resolve #41236
• build-image failures after docker desktop update with 'Illegal char <:> at index 5: npipe:////' #41234
• When using Jetty, filters, listeners, and servlets are not initialized with the same thread context classloader #41225
• DirtiesContext used with Webflux, a random port and multiple contexts causes multiple contexts to misbehave #41221
• NoSuchMethodException on org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory.<init> when using spring-boot-starter-activemq in a native image #41214

📔 Documentation

• Fix documentation links in the README #41531
• Document the types to which each spring.mvc.format and spring.webflux.format property applies #41518
• Document that logging.file.name and logging.file.path cannot be used together #41516
• Refine CDS how-to guide #41464
• Fix typos in javadoc of BootstrapContext #41448
• CDS link in "Efficient Deployments" documentation is broken #41321
• Update Kotlin DSL examples that configure the environment of bootBuildImage to be additive #41270
• Document tracing support for RestClient #41192
• Documentation wrongly states that zipkin-sender-urlconnection is needed #41181

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.22.1 #41474
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.18 #41371
• Upgrade to Dependency Management Plugin 1.1.6 #41372
• Upgrade to GraphQL Java 22.1 #41219
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.22 #41373
• Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.2.5 #41374
• Upgrade to Jackson Bom 2.17.2 #41375
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.11 #41376
• Upgrade to JsonAssert 1.5.3 #41377
• Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 5.10.3 #41378
• Upgrade to Kafka 3.7.1 #41379
• Upgrade to Lombok 1.18.34 #41380
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.2 #41298
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.3.2 #41299
• Upgrade to MSSQL JDBC 12.6.3.jre11 #41381
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.22.0 #41382
• Upgrade to R2DBC MariaDB 1.2.1 #41383
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.8 #41384
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2024.0.2 #41300
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.11 #41301
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.3.2 #41527
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.3.1 #41497
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.3.2 #41302
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.2.2 #41303
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.1.2 #41536
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.7 #41485
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.26 #41498

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@acouvreur, @anbusampath, @eddumelendez, @izeye, @jxblum, @mateusscheper, @opcooc, and @sdeleuze

🐞 Bug Fixes

• NPE during auto-configuration in OnClassCondition.resolveOutcomesThreaded because firstHalf is null #41492
• No configuration property for defaultTimeout setting that was introduced in Spring Integration 6.2 #41477
• NoSuchMethodException on org.apache.activemq.ActiveMQConnectionFactory.<init> when using spring-boot-starter-activemq in a native image #41212
• build-image failures after docker desktop update with 'Illegal char <:> at index 5: npipe:////' #41199
• DirtiesContext used with Webflux, a random port and multiple contexts causes multiple contexts to misbehave #38199
• When using Jetty, filters, listeners, and servlets are not initialized with the same thread context classloader #37649
• Error message can be misleading if spring.config.import fails to resolve #36243
• TestcontainersLifecycleBeanPostProcessor does not work correctly with scoped beans #35786
• PropertiesMigrationListener wrongly reports property as deprecated #35774

📔 Documentation

• Fix documentation links in the README #41547
• Document the types to which each spring.mvc.format and spring.webflux.format property applies #41482
• Fix typos in javadoc of BootstrapContext #41443
• Document that logging.file.name and logging.file.path cannot be used together #41351
• Document tracing support for RestClient #41182
• Update Kotlin DSL examples that configure the environment of bootBuildImage to be additive #41173

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.22.1 #41470
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.18 #41361
• Upgrade to Dependency Management Plugin 1.1.6 #41362
• Upgrade to GraphQL Java 21.5 #41340
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.22 #41363
• Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.2.5 #41364
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.11 #41365
• Upgrade to JsonAssert 1.5.3 #41366
• Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 5.10.3 #41367
• Upgrade to Lombok 1.18.34 #41368
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.8 #41292
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.2.8 #41293
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.22.0 #41370
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.8 #41436
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.1.8 #41294
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.11 #41295
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.2.8 #41523
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.2.3 #41493
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.2.7 #41296
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.1.7 #41297
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.0.8 #41532
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.7 #41484
• Upgrade to SQLite JDBC 3.43.2.2 #41495
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.26 #41496

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@jxblum, @mateusscheper, and @sdeleuze

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SQL Server JDBC URL is malformed after adding org.springframework.boot.jdbc.parameters label #41169
• Git instant properties cannot be coerced following git-commit-id Maven plugin upgrade #41152
• Excluding status code from DefaultErrorAttributes throws NPE #41141
• Spring Boot remote restart with devtools causes 'factory already defined' Tomcat error when running with 'java -jar' #41107
• MongoHealthIndicator not compliant with Mongo stable API with strict setting #41104
• Service connection for bitnami mongodb fails to connect #41097
• Image building requires builder to specify a stack #41091
• DataSourceProperties fail to bind if java.sql module isn't included #41084
• AOT causes Logback configuration error when using include #41081
• Image building hangs when builder and buildpack are configured #41049
• IllegalArgumentException when trying to use Tomcat's HttpNio2Protocol with Spring Boot-configured SSL #41010
• Uber jar fails to start when it contains a dependency with Multi-Release: true in its manifest and unexpected file entries in META-INF/versions #41006
• JSP-related resources may not be found in an executable war file when using Jetty #40996
• The value of the tomcat.threads.config.max metric is always -1, irrespective of the configured maximum number of threads #40957
• The auto-configured reactiveNeo4jTransactionManager may cause a failure due to multiple TransactionManager beans #40953
• Application fails to start when server.tomcat.threads.max < 10 #40945
• SBOM actuator endpoint doesn't work in a native image #40939
• Starter parent applies its configuration of the CycloneDX Maven plugin too broadly #40927
• buildInfo does not work with Gradle 8.7 or later when the configuration cache is enabled #40924
• Prometheus Exemplars are missing from _count #40904
• Extract fails due to a duplicate entry when BOOT-INF/classes contains a directory that's also present in the root of the jar #40903
• sbom is not available to the actuator endpoint when using bootRun or bootWar #40890
• A newline character is missing from the start of the default banner #40889

📔 Documentation

• Fix links to Spring AMQP's javadoc #41144
• Document more precisely how a Container's Docker image name is used to find the matching service connection #41123
• Cross-link to the CDS how-to guide #41118
• Fix typos in javadoc of MockServerRestClientCustomizer and MockServerRestTemplateCustomizer #41065
• Improve readability when listing three pillars of observability #41064
• Add CDS training run configuration documentation #41045
• Document the need to switch to io.micrometer:micrometer-registry-prometheus-simpleclient to use the Prometheus push gateway #40993
• Improve consistency of documentation guidelines for packaging and running applications #40977
• Fix typos in method names and javadoc #40976
• Replace hard-coded links to Micrometer in documentation #40967
• Add Kotlin example for @Testcontainers #40943
• Fix various minor inconsistencies of the documentation #40942
• Warn in the documentation that spring.profiles.group can only be used in non-profile-specific documents #40941
• Broken Micrometer links in documentation #40916
• Document Buildpacks CDS and Spring AOT support #40762

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.17 #41066
• Upgrade to FreeMarker 2.3.33 #41067
• Upgrade to HSQLDB 2.7.3 #41068
• Upgrade to Infinispan 15.0.5.Final #41159
• Upgrade to Jaybird 5.0.5.java11 #41132
• Upgrade to Jersey 3.1.7 #41069
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.10 #41071
• Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 4.0.5 #41070
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.10 #41133
• Upgrade to Maven Help Plugin 3.4.1 #41073
• Upgrade to Maven Jar Plugin 3.4.2 #41160
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.1 #41030
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.3.1 #41042
• Upgrade to MSSQL JDBC 12.6.2.jre11 #41074
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.21.0 #41043
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.111.Final #41075
• Upgrade to Pulsar Reactive 0.5.6 #41134
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.7 #41031
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.1.6 #41145
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.3.1 #41032
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2024.0.1 #41033
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.10 #41150
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.3.1 #41035
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.3.1 #41036
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.2.1 #41037
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.2.4 #41038
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.1.1 #41039
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.3.1 #41040
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.3.1 #41041
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.25 #41161

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Eng-Fouad, @PiyalAhmed, @Seungpang, @asashour, @cmabdullah, @dependabot[bot], @donghoony, @erie0210, @izeye, @mateusscheper, @onobc, @quaff, @sdeleuze, and @vsanna

🐞 Bug Fixes

• SQL Server JDBC URL is malformed after adding org.springframework.boot.jdbc.parameters label #41146
• Git instant properties cannot be coerced following git-commit-id Maven plugin upgrade #41109
• MongoHealthIndicator not compliant with Mongo stable API with strict setting #41101
• DataSourceProperties fail to bind if java.sql module isn't included #41082
• Image building requires builder to specify a stack #41046
• IllegalArgumentException when trying to use Tomcat's HttpNio2Protocol with Spring Boot-configured SSL #41007
• Uber jar fails to start when it contains a dependency with Multi-Release: true in its manifest and unexpected file entries in META-INF/versions #41001
• buildInfo does not work with Gradle 8.7 or later when the configuration cache is enabled #40911
• The auto-configured reactiveNeo4jTransactionManager may cause a failure due to multiple TransactionManager beans #40895
• Flyway auto-configuration does not work with Flyway 10 when using GraalVM #40821
• Image building hangs when builder and buildpack are configured #40697
• Spring Boot remote restart with devtools causes 'factory already defined' Tomcat error when running with 'java -jar' #39733
• JSP-related resources may not be found in an executable war file when using Jetty #39472
• Excluding status code from DefaultErrorAttributes throws NPE #30011

📔 Documentation

• Document more precisely how a Container's Docker image name is used to find the matching service connection #41111
• Fix typos in javadoc of MockServerRestClientCustomizer and MockServerRestTemplateCustomizer #41052
• Improve readability when listing three pillars of observability #41051
• Fix typos in method names and javadoc #40971
• Warn in the documentation that spring.profiles.group can only be used in non-profile-specific documents #40918
• Add Kotlin example for @Testcontainers #40905
• Fix various minor inconsistencies of the documentation #40900

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.17 #41054
• Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.26 #41055
• Upgrade to FreeMarker 2.3.33 #41056
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.4.9.Final #41095
• Upgrade to HSQLDB 2.7.3 #41057
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.29.Final #41096
• Upgrade to Jaybird 5.0.5.java11 #41127
• Upgrade to Jersey 3.1.7 #41058
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.10 #41060
• Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 4.0.5 #41059
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.18.17 #41128
• Upgrade to Maven Help Plugin 3.4.1 #41062
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.7 #41015
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.2.7 #41027
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.21.0 #41028
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.111.Final #41063
• Upgrade to Pulsar Reactive 0.5.6 #41129
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.7 #41016
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.1.6 #41143
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.2.5 #41017
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.1.7 #41018
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.10 #41149
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.2.7 #41020
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.2.6 #41021
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.1.6 #41022
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.2.4 #41023
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.0.7 #41024
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.2.5 #41025
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.2.4 #41026
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.25 #41158

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@MazizEsa, @PiyalAhmed, @asashour, @cmabdullah, @donghoony, @erie0210, @mateusscheper, @quaff, and @vsanna

⭐ New Features

• Add support for descriptions of record components in configuration metadata generation #29403

🐞 Bug Fixes

• gradlew bootBuildImage fails with Podman on macOS Sonoma #40871
• Pulsar auth parameters don't properly encode JSON values #40869
• When using JPA and ImportTestcontainers, test context may fail to refresh due to "Mapped port can only be obtained after the container is started" #40863
• Default MIME mappings are not loaded unless additional mappings are configured #40860
• Starting from 3.2.x, @SpyBean is not able to initialise MongoRepository bean of the generic type #40855
• Auto-configuration ordering change breaks DocumentReference (in non-reactive MongoTemplate) when depending on mongodb-driver-reactivestreams #40851
• Neo4jReactiveDataAutoConfiguration creates incorrectly named bean #40836
• Image building fails during cleanup when bind mount has read-only content #40799
• Failure Analysis for InvalidConfigurationPropertyValueException is skipped when the property is not set #40691
• IllegalArgumentException can be thrown when running an uber jar on a shared drive #40643
• setReadTimeout can't be set via Reflective factory on JettyClientHttpRequestFactory #40638
• URISyntaxException is raised if the spring boot application is started in a location that contains invalid URI characters #40616
• resolveMainClassName fails when building with Gradle using Java 22 #40613
• AnsiOutput.detectIfAnsiCapable broken on JDK22 #40609
• Help information for spring init's build option has the wrong default #40606
• JarUrlConnection.getPermission() can throw NullPointerException if jarFileConnection is null #40599
• Whitespace is not correctly trimmed when generating configuration properties metadata from records #40593
• In some situations, the failure when the AOT-generated initializer cannot be loaded is less helpful than before #40584
• Properties binding eagerly creates superfluous maps #40561
• Configuring SSL bundle reload for non-file resource types causes errors that are difficult to diagnose #40560
• spring-boot-dependencies cannot be used with repositories that ban com.oracle.database.jdbc:ojdbc-bom #40535
• Buildpacks do not support Docker with containerd image store #40526
• SpringBootMockMvcBuilderCustomizer can crash cryptically while collecting data that it would have discarded anyway #40517
• Containers not shut down between tests when using .withReuse(true) but env. does not support reuse (e.g. CI builds) #40509
• CookieSameSiteSupplier influences session cookie #40501
• <springProperty> and <springProfile> do not work in <include> after Logback upgrade #40491
• Runtime hint registration for property binding should not fail when parameter information is unavailable #40486
• ServiceLevelObjectiveBoundary properties cannot be bound in a native image application #40483
• server.error.include-binding-errors does not recognize MethodValidationResult exceptions #40474
• spring.data.redis.cluster.nodes and spring.data.redis.sentinel.nodes do not handle IPv6 addresses correctly #40467
• Using relative paths to describe the classpath in the error message from ResolveMainClassName hinders problem diagnosis #40465
• Jartools extract command doesn't extract all files from META-INF #40456
• Native image doesn't start and doesn't log anything if an environment post processor throws an exception #40451
• Unlike DataSourceAutoConfiguration, DevToolsDataSourceAutoConfiguration assumes that javax.sql.DataSource will always be available #40441

📔 Documentation

• Improve graceful shutdown documentation to remove ambiguity #40846
• Document ways to opt out from immutable @ConfigurationProperties binding with single constructor #40844
• Document that a custom HttpMessageConverters bean can be used to reorder json message converters when needed #40839
• Address ambiguity now that Testcontainers has two classes named KafkaContainer #40756
• Publish API documentation for Spring Boot's Kotlin APIs #40692
• Fix typo in features doc #40631
• Code inclusion in Jersey documentation is broken #40629
• Add How-To for ManagedClassNameFilter #40617
• Clarify devtools restart class loader #40608
• Document default value of management.zipkin.tracing.encoding #40588
• Note that spring-boot-docker-compose is excluded by default from packaged jars #40565
• Clarify docs around spring.jpa.generate-ddl #40523
• Clarify the directory that's used by default to find Docker Compose compose.yaml #40515
• Suggest testAndDevelopmentOnly configuration when using Docker Compose support in tests #40481
• Clarify that all named properties must match for @ConditionalOnProperty to match #40471
• Links to Spring Batch javadoc for EnableBatchProcessing and DefaultBatchConfiguration are broken #40141
• Add grpc starter and httpexchange starter to the community starters document #39437

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.16 #40879
• Upgrade to Cassandra Driver 4.18.1 #40842
• Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.6.2 #40737
• Upgrade to Dependency Management Plugin 1.1.5 #40738
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 8.13.4 #40739
• Upgrade to GraphQL Java 22.0 #40618
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.5.2.Final #40867
• Upgrade to Infinispan 15.0.4.Final #40865
• Upgrade to Jackson Bom 2.17.1 #40742
• Upgrade to Jakarta XML SOAP 3.0.2 #40786
• Upgrade to Jakarta XML WS 4.0.2 #40787
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.9 #40743
• Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 4.0.4 #40811
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.8 #40744
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.24 #40745
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.8.1 #40746
• Upgrade to Maven Deploy Plugin 3.1.2 [#40747](#4...

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Image building fails during cleanup when bind mount has read-only content #40760
• Failure Analysis for InvalidConfigurationPropertyValueException is skipped when the property is not set #40690
• setReadTimeout can't be set via Reflective factory on JettyClientHttpRequestFactory #40635
• URISyntaxException is raised if the spring boot application is started in a location that contains invalid URI characters #40615
• Help information for spring init's build option has the wrong default #40605
• When using JPA and ImportTestcontainers, test context may fail to refresh due to "Mapped port can only be obtained after the container is started" #40585
• IllegalArgumentException can be thrown when running an uber jar on a shared drive #40549
• spring-boot-dependencies cannot be used with repositories that ban com.oracle.database.jdbc:ojdbc-bom #40534
• SpringBootMockMvcBuilderCustomizer can crash cryptically while collecting data that it would have discarded anyway #40516
• Containers not shut down between tests when using .withReuse(true) but env. does not support reuse (e.g. CI builds) #40508
• Pulsar auth parameters don't properly encode JSON values #40493
• Runtime hint registration for property binding should not fail when parameter information is unavailable #40485
• ServiceLevelObjectiveBoundary properties cannot be bound in a native image application #40482
• spring.data.redis.cluster.nodes and spring.data.redis.sentinel.nodes do not handle IPv6 addresses correctly #40466
• Using relative paths to describe the classpath in the error message from ResolveMainClassName hinders problem diagnosis #40464
• Native image doesn't start and doesn't log anything if an environment post processor throws an exception #40450
• Unlike DataSourceAutoConfiguration, DevToolsDataSourceAutoConfiguration assumes that javax.sql.DataSource will always be available #40440
• Starting from 3.2.x, @SpyBean is not able to initialise MongoRepository bean of the generic type #40234
• AnsiOutput.detectIfAnsiCapable broken on JDK22 #40172
• Buildpacks do not support Docker with containerd image store #40100
• resolveMainClassName fails when building with Gradle using Java 22 #40074
• server.error.include-binding-errors does not recognize MethodValidationResult exceptions #39865
• JarUrlConnection.getPermission() can throw NullPointerException if jarFileConnection is null #39856
• gradlew bootBuildImage fails with Podman on macOS Sonoma #39830
• CookieSameSiteSupplier influences session cookie #39766
• Auto-configuration ordering change breaks DocumentReference (in non-reactive MongoTemplate) when depending on mongodb-driver-reactivestreams #39405
• Properties binding eagerly creates superfluous maps #39375
• Configuring SSL bundle reload for non-file resource types causes errors that are difficult to diagnose #38903
• In some situations, the failure when the AOT-generated initializer cannot be loaded is less helpful than before #38645

📔 Documentation

• Improve graceful shutdown documentation to remove ambiguity #40845
• Document ways to opt out from immutable @ConfigurationProperties binding with single constructor #40843
• Document that a custom HttpMessageConverters bean can be used to reorder json message converters when needed #40838
• Address ambiguity now that Testcontainers has two classes named KafkaContainer #40699
• Clarify devtools restart class loader #40607
• Note that spring-boot-docker-compose is excluded by default from packaged jars #40564
• Clarify docs around spring.jpa.generate-ddl #40522
• Clarify the directory that's used by default to find Docker Compose compose.yaml #40514
• Clarify that all named properties must match for @ConditionalOnProperty to match #40470
• Links to Spring Batch javadoc for EnableBatchProcessing and DefaultBatchConfiguration are broken #40468
• Suggest testAndDevelopmentOnly configuration when using Docker Compose support in tests #40171

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.16 #40877
• Upgrade to Dependency Management Plugin 1.1.5 #40721
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.4.8.Final #40722
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.28.Final #40723
• Upgrade to Jakarta XML SOAP 3.0.2 #40781
• Upgrade to Jakarta XML WS 4.0.2 #40782
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.9 #40724
• Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 4.0.4 #40809
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.18.15 #40725
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.9.24 #40726
• Upgrade to Maven Deploy Plugin 3.1.2 #40727
• Upgrade to Maven Install Plugin 3.1.2 #40728
• Upgrade to Maven Shade Plugin 3.5.3 #40729
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.6 #40655
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.2.6 #40730
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.20.0 #40665
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.110.Final #40878
• Upgrade to Pooled JMS 3.1.6 #40731
• Upgrade to Pulsar Reactive 0.5.5 #40810
• Upgrade to R2DBC Proxy 1.1.5.RELEASE #40732
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.6 #40656
• Upgrade to SAAJ Impl 3.0.4 #40783
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.1.5 #40827
• Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.1.2 #40657
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.1.6 #40658
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.8 #40828
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.2.5 #40660
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.1.5 #40661
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.0.6 #40662
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.6 #40784
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.2.3 #40663
• Upgrade to Spring WS 4.0.11 #40664
• Upgrade to Testcontainers 1.19.8 #40733
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🐞 Bug Fixes

• Help information for spring init's build option has the wrong default #40603
• SpringBootMockMvcBuilderCustomizer can crash cryptically while collecting data that it would have discarded anyway #40500
• ServiceLevelObjectiveBoundary properties cannot be bound in a native image application #40480
• Using relative paths to describe the classpath in the error message from ResolveMainClassName hinders problem diagnosis #40463
• Unlike DataSourceAutoConfiguration, DevToolsDataSourceAutoConfiguration assumes that javax.sql.DataSource will always be available #40434
• Native image doesn't start and doesn't log anything if an environment post processor throws an exception #40429
• Runtime hint registration for property binding should not fail when parameter information is unavailable #40051
• spring-boot-dependencies cannot be used with repositories that ban com.oracle.database.jdbc:ojdbc-bom #39945
• spring.data.redis.cluster.nodes and spring.data.redis.sentinel.nodes do not handle IPv6 addresses correctly #39819
• Containers not shut down between tests when using .withReuse(true) but env. does not support reuse (e.g. CI builds) #39609
• Failure Analysis for InvalidConfigurationPropertyValueException is skipped when the property is not set #33261

📔 Documentation

• Document that a custom HttpMessageConverters bean can be used to reorder json message converters when needed #40767
• Clarify devtools restart class loader #40604
• Note that spring-boot-docker-compose is excluded by default from packaged jars #40556
• Clarify the directory that's used by default to find Docker Compose compose.yaml #40512
• Clarify docs around spring.jpa.generate-ddl #40503
• Clarify that all named properties must match for @ConditionalOnProperty to match #40110
• Improve graceful shutdown documentation to remove ambiguity #40108
• Document ways to opt out from immutable @ConfigurationProperties binding with single constructor #34820

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.16 #40875
• Upgrade to Dependency Management Plugin 1.1.5 #40709
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.2.25.Final #40710
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.28.Final #40711
• Upgrade to Jakarta XML SOAP 3.0.2 #40776
• Upgrade to Jakarta XML WS 4.0.2 #40777
• Upgrade to Jetty 11.0.21 #40778
• Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 3.0.13 #40807
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.18.15 #40712
• Upgrade to Maven Deploy Plugin 3.1.2 #40713
• Upgrade to Maven Install Plugin 3.1.2 #40714
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.11.12 #40646
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.1.13 #40715
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.20.0 #40654
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.110.Final #40876
• Upgrade to Pooled JMS 3.1.6 #40716
• Upgrade to R2DBC Proxy 1.1.5.RELEASE #40717
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2022.0.19 #40647
• Upgrade to SAAJ Impl 3.0.4 #40779
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.14 #40824
• Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.0.6 #40648
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.0.12 #40649
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.21 #40825
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.1.9 #40826
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.0.17 #40651
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.6 #40808
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.1.6 #40652
• Upgrade to Spring WS 4.0.11 #40653
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.24 #40780
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.3.13.Final #40719

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@PiyalAhmed, @chaewss, @coursar, @dependabot[bot], @dsyer, @dukbong, @izeye, @quaff, @snicoll, and @tobi-laa

⭐ New Features

• Add configuration key spring.rabbitmq.template.allowed-list-patterns #40421
• Add spring.graphql.websocket.keep-alive property #40320
• Add Spring Pulsar transaction support #40189
• Make it harder to misconfigure logging.threshold.console in yaml #40124
• Make configuration properties for Pulsar failover more concise #40077
• Add support for Prometheus Client 1.x and simpleclient #40023
• Delay interaction with Lazy CqlSession bean until first required usage #39948
• Add property spring.data.jdbc.dialect #39941
• Make spring-test available to compile classpath of consumers of spring-boot-test #39901
• Exclude infrastructure beans from lazy initialization when lazy-initialization=true #39831
• Configure JpaBaseConfiguration with custom ManagedClassNameFilter #39813
• Add property to ignore running Docker Compose services #39749
• Add configuration property to disable long timers in Micrometer Observations #39618
• Upgrade Cassandra driver to 4.18.0 and change coordinates from com.datastax.oss to org.apache.cassandra #39090
• Add more gap between the orders of CloudFoundryVcapEnvironmentPostProcessor and ConfigDataEnvironmentPostProcessor #38684
• Deprecate @ServletEndpoint, @ControllerEndpoint and @RestControllerEndpoint #31768
• Add SNI support to embedded web server SSL auto-configuration #26022

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Executable JAR application startup is slower after 3.2.0 when Hibernate scanner is not disabled #40381
• NoClassDefFoundError can be thrown from LaunchedClassLoader when threads are interrupted #40379
• BindValidationFailureAnalyzer uses wrong target #40365
• Log4j2LoggingSystem pollutes Log4j2's environment with a SpringEnvironmentPropertySource that is never removed #40327
• When using Maven, configuring the spring-boot.excludes or spring-boot-includes user properties causes the build to fail with "Cannot find default setter" #40324
• @ServletComponentScan does not register servlet components in a mock web environment #40322
• Loading of custom deny-all filter can cause a StackOverflowError when deploying to Tomcat with Log4j2 configured to use a single JVM-wide logger context #40313
• Jetty support doesn't set virtual thread name #40169
• Maven uses 'start-class' when the parent POM is being used and ignores 'spring-boot.run.main-class' #40145
• PropertiesLdapConnectionDetails should not be public #40081
• spring.datasource.dbcp2.username and spring.datasource.dbcp2.password are incorrectly marked as deprecated #40076
• spring-boot-dependencies should not manage org.flywaydb:flyway-community-db-support as it is not released as part of Flyway #40073
• Spring Config does not use environment conversion service on resolved properties #39944

📔 Documentation

• Producible's javadoc has the wrong link text for @WriteOperation and @DeleteOperation #40387
• Add reference to OpenTelemetry Spring Boot starter #40339
• Refine Efficient Deployments section in the reference guide #40175
• Clarify requirements for -parameters and constructor binding #40164
• Ensure Reference Guides breadcrumb in page headers is hyperlinked #40135
• Document new tools mode #40094
• Add reference to Nostr Spring Boot Starter #40080
• Replace links to code with links to javadoc #40065
• Document CDS support #40061
• Document SBOM Support #40059
• Fix forward-headers-strategy documentation regarding cloud defaults #40054
• Pull the whole "Testing" documentation section up to the top level #38361

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to ActiveMQ 6.1.2 #40399
• Upgrade to Artemis 2.33.0 #40082
• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.22 #40239
• Upgrade to Awaitility 4.2.1 #40331
• Upgrade to Brave 6.0.3 #40332
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.13 #40240
• Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.6.1 #40241
• Upgrade to CycloneDX Maven Plugin 2.8.0 #40242
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 8.13.2 #40333
• Upgrade to GraphQL Java 21.5 #40244
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.21 #40245
• Upgrade to Hazelcast 5.4.0 #40400
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.5.0.CR2 #40378
• Upgrade to Infinispan 15.0.1.Final #40334
• Upgrade to Jakarta Json Bind 3.0.1 #40248
• Upgrade to Jersey 3.1.6 #40249
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.8 #40250
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.7 #40251
• Upgrade to Json-smart 2.5.1 #40252
• Upgrade to Liquibase 4.27.0 #40253
• Upgrade to Logback 1.5.6 #40401
• Upgrade to Lombok 1.18.32 #40254
• Upgrade to Maven Invoker Plugin 3.6.1 #40255
• Upgrade to Maven Jar Plugin 3.4.0 #40402
• Upgrade to Maven Source Plugin 3.3.1 #40256
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.0-RC1 #40257
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.3.0-RC1 #40258
• Upgrade to MongoDB 5.0.1 #40259
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.19.0 #40232
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.109.Final #40403
• Upgrade to OpenTelemetry 1.37.0 #40261
• Upgrade to Pulsar 3.2.2 #40262
• Upgrade to Pulsar Reactive 0.5.4 #40404
• Upgrade to R2DBC MySQL 1.1.3 #40263
• Upgrade to R2DBC Postgresql 1.0.5.RELEASE #40335
• Upgrade to Rabbit AMQP Client 5.21.0 #40264
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.5...

🐞 Bug Fixes

• BindValidationFailureAnalyzer uses wrong target #40364
• Log4j2LoggingSystem pollutes Log4j2's environment with a SpringEnvironmentPropertySource that is never removed #40326
• When using Maven, configuring the spring-boot.excludes or spring-boot-includes user properties causes the build to fail with "Cannot find default setter" #40323
• @ServletComponentScan does not register servlet components in a mock web environment #40321
• Loading of custom deny-all filter can cause a StackOverflowError when deploying to Tomcat with Log4j2 configured to use a single JVM-wide logger context #40312
• Jetty support doesn't set virtual thread name #40152
• Executable JAR application startup is slower after 3.2.0 when Hibernate scanner is not disabled #40125
• NoClassDefFoundError can be thrown from LaunchedClassLoader when threads are interrupted #40096

📔 Documentation

• Producible's javadoc has the wrong link text for @WriteOperation and @DeleteOperation #40386
• Clarify requirements for -parameters and constructor binding #40157

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to ActiveMQ 5.18.4 #40394
• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.22 #40293
• Upgrade to Awaitility 4.2.1 #40294
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.13 #40295
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.21 #40296
• Upgrade to Hazelcast 5.3.7 #40297
• Upgrade to Jakarta Json Bind 3.0.1 #40298
• Upgrade to Jersey 3.1.6 #40299
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.8 #40300
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.18.14 #40301
• Upgrade to Json-smart 2.5.1 #40302
• Upgrade to Kafka 3.6.2 #40303
• Upgrade to Lombok 1.18.32 #40304
• Upgrade to Maven Invoker Plugin 3.6.1 #40305
• Upgrade to Maven Source Plugin 3.3.1 #40306
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.5 #40207
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.2.5 #40208
• Upgrade to MongoDB 4.11.2 #40307
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.19.0 #40218
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.109.Final #40395
• Upgrade to Pulsar Reactive 0.5.4 #40396
• Upgrade to R2DBC Postgresql 1.0.5.RELEASE #40309
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.5 #40209
• Upgrade to SLF4J 2.0.13 #40397
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.1.4 #40210
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.2.4 #40211
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.1.5 #40212
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.6 #40213
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.2.6 #40310
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.2.2 #40376
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.2.4 #40214
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.1.4 #40377
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.2.3 #40215
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.0.5 #40216
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.2.4 #40217
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.20 #40311

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@FelixDes, @dependabot[bot], @izeye, @mstahv, @ppkarwasz, @snicoll, and @spencergibb