This is a maintenance release upgrading dependency versions. General Switched to explicitly defining Spring Boot version as 2.5.x train (#804). Upgraded Spring Boot dependencies to 2.5.8, which includes log4j-api upgrade to 2.17.0 (#812). Updated gcp-libraries-bom.version to 24.1.1 (#816). Updated cloud-sql-socket-factory.version to 1.4.1 (#773)