On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.3.2 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release includes 88 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the first milestone of Spring Boot 2.4 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 120 issues and pull requests. Please note the slight change in the format of the version. 2.4.0-M1 is the first Spring Boot release to use the new versioning scheme. With Spring Boot 2.4, we have switched to a 6-month release cadence. All being well, you can expect to see 2.4.0 reach general availability in October or November. Highlights of this first milestone include: Preliminary…

We made a fairly significant change to Spring Boot in 2.3.0.M1. It was the first release of the project to be built with Gradle rather than Maven. A thread on Twitter about the migration had a number of people asking why we switched and the benefits, if any, that we’d seen. This blog post aims to answer those questions. Each project in the Spring portfolio is run in a fairly autonomous manner. We strive for consistency where our users will see it most – API design, for example – but choose the tools that best meet the needs of the project for things that are less visible. One example of this…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the fourth milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes 99 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed. Highlights of this milestone include: Support for liveness and readiness probes. Improved support for building OCI images. Improved support for building layered jars, including customization when using Gradle. For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.3 Release Notes on the…

Recently, when talking about testing Spring Boot applications at Spring IO and SpringOne Platform, I've mentioned Testcontainers and discussed the boilerplate involved in configuring your tests to use the service running inside the container. I'm delighted to say that, with the recent Spring Framework 5.2.5 release, that boilerplate is no more. Prior to the changes that we've just released, your integration test would look similar to the following: Here we are using @ContextConfiguration to specify an ApplicationContextInitializer. The initializer is configuring the spring.data.neo4j.uri…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes 89 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed. Highlights of this milestone include: Support for gracefully shutting down the embedded web server Support for customizing the layers when building a layered jar with Maven Support for R2DBC Auto-configuration for Spring Integration's RSocket support Numerous dependency upgrades For a complete list of changes and…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.13 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release includes 34 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Important Security Advisory This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Reactor Netty 0.8.16. It contains a fix for CVE-2020-5404. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.5 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release includes 62 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Important Security Advisory This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Reactor Netty 0.9.5. It contains fixes for CVE-2020-5403 and CVE-2020-5404. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.12 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Important Security Advisory: This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Spring Framework 5.1.13 which contains a fix for CVE-2020-5398. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.3 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release includes 75 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Important Security Advisory: This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Spring Framework 5.2.3 which contains fixes for CVE-2020-5398 and CVE-2020-5397. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the…