🪲 Bug Fixes
- Configuration property binding processes JavaBean methods in a non-deterministic order which may result in variable behavior #24424
- Redis health indicator requests more information than it needs resulting in unnecessarily large responses from Redis #24250
- JPA repositories mode should not be deferred by default #24249
- ErrorAttributeOptions.excluding throws IllegalArgumentException if includes is empty #24230
- Actuator web endpoints cannot respond with custom HTTP status codes when running on MVC or WebFlux #24222
- Missing Spring Integration metrics due to the MeterRegistry bean being looked for before it has been defined #24219
- WebFluxTags performs unnecessary Pattern compilation when ignoring trailing slashes #24193
- elasticsearch-rest-client-sniffer is missing from the dependency management for Elasticsearch's REST client modules #24185
- DataSourceUnwrapper calls Wrapper.isWrapperFor with a class rather than an interface causing Oracle UCP warnings #24154
📔 Documentation
- Document how to use Devtools without an IDE #24409
- Add link to appendix from error handling documentation #24407
- Invalid ErrorAttributesOptions#getInclude Javadoc #24257
- Security properties appendix contains spring.session and spring.ldap properties that belong elsewhere #24195
- Rename "sla" to "slo" in reference documentation #24160
🔨 Dependency Upgrades
- Upgrade to ActiveMQ 5.15.14 #24436
- Upgrade to Caffeine 2.8.8 #24437
- Upgrade to DB2 JDBC 11.5.5.0 #24369
- Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.1.16 #24370
- Upgrade to Groovy 2.5.14 #24371
- Upgrade to Hibernate 5.4.25.Final #24372
- Upgrade to HttpCore 4.4.14 #24373
- Upgrade to Jetty 9.4.35.v20201120 #24374
- Upgrade to Micrometer 1.5.9 #24427
- Upgrade to Netty 4.1.55.Final #24438
- Upgrade to Netty tcNative 2.0.35.Final #24439
- Upgrade to Reactor Dysprosium-SR15 #24274
- Upgrade to Spring AMQP 2.2.13 #24287
- Upgrade to Spring Batch 4.2.5 #24290
- Upgrade to Spring Data Neumann-SR6 #24283
- Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.2.12 #24277
- Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 1.1.3 #24419
- Upgrade to Spring Kafka 2.5.10 #24293
- Upgrade to Spring Security 5.3.6 #24296
- Upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.41 #24440
- Upgrade to Undertow 2.1.5.Final #24441
❤️ Contributors
We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!