spring-projects/spring-boot v2.5.0 on GitHub

For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes.

🪲 Bug Fixes

Auto-configured resource handlers don't get applied to child contexts #26623
Actuator doesn't use the CORS Configuration with default security configuration and Spring Webflux #26614
Actuator doesn't use the CORS Configuration with default security configuration and Spring MVC #26612
SpringApplication additional profiles and active profiles ordering changed with Spring Boot 2.4 #26610
An active request delays Jetty's shutdown by 30 seconds #26608
SmartInitializingSingleton beans are not working with lazy initialization #26606
MVC and WebFlux metrics filters adversely affect the response when metrics recording fails #26596
ConfigDataResolvers cannot signal that they should be skipped #26585
Remote devtools endpoint cannot be accessed if actuator and spring security are on the classpath #26584
The error message when a wildcard directory location does not match any files is misleading #26583
Mandatory locations with pattern fail with exception #26582
Non-optional locations with wildcards fail if no files are contributed #26581
Profiles programmatically set on the Envionment are no longer merged with active profile properties #26580
Use of spring.profiles.include in a profile-specific document is not detected when it's configured as a YAML list #26575
ConfigurationProperties is retrieved via classpath scanning but does not indicate it should be indexed #26463
BufferingApplicationStartup fails with NoSuchElementException #26458
Building an image fails when using a custom buildpack image with long file names #26445
Additional profiles are processed too late when legacy processing is used #26434
Config data location does not exist error can be thrown if a profile-specific properties file is directly imported #26402
StandardConfigDataLoader can import profile specific files in incorrect order #26401
Resolvability and consumability of productionRuntimeClasspath are not aligned with runtimeClasspath #26365
ObjectMapper provided by JacksonAutoConfiguration via JacksonClusterEnvironmentBuilderCustomizer breaks Couchbase driver #26363
Empty value in spring.config.import causes NullPointerException #26346
@DataRedisTest does not consider RedisReactiveAutoConfiguration #26328
When a single bean causes a dependency cycle the failure analysis does not clearly illustrate the cycle #26323
SpringBootConfiguration is retrieved via classpath scanning but does not indicate it should be indexed #26318
Maven spring-boot:build-image ignores ZIP layout #26313
bootBuildImage does not pick up targetCompatibility when it's configured after task is customised #26301
Configuration item metadata ordering is not consistent #26277
@EnableAutoConfiguration and @ImportAutoConfiguration use different class loaders to find candidate configurations #26237
'spring.web.resources.cache.use-last-modified=false' doesn't work with Spring MVC #26233
Restore support for binding configuration properties from RandomValuePropertySource #26201
@Scheduled method not triggered when spring.main.lazy-initialization=true #26156
When classes in spring-core and spring-boot are loaded by different ClassLoaders, spring-boot cannot find its own config data location resolvers #26155
ConfigFileApplicationListener#loadPostProcessors can not load EnvironmentPostProcessor in child classLoader #26126

📔 Documentation

Info endpoint in reference doc has outdated defaults #26591
Update documentation following the release of Spock Framework 2.0 #26586
Update Gradle docs to use module replacement rather than dependency substitution #26526
Improve documentation of TestRestTemplate's fault tolerance #26522
Document that the heap dump endpoint requires a HotSpot JVM #26474
Suggest enabling the default servlet when using Jersey as a filter #26452
Document support for Gradle 6.9 #26409
Fix wrong reference to Cassandra in DockerImageNames#couchbase #26406
PDF documentation include hidden code elements #26373
Move Working with the Code from CONTRIBUTING.adoc to the wiki #26334
Fix typo in NamedContributors Javadoc #26325
Polish README #26320
Fix link to Webservices reference docs #26316
Document property names to enable reactive health indicators #26299
Documentation has wrong key for DataSourceHealthIndicator #26283
Reorder a few howtos #26262
Align documentation with main default branch name #26257
Align Maven version in system requirements with what is actually tested #26211
Document that MeterFilters are only applied to the Spring-managed MeterRegistry #26186
Use new update site for Spring Java Format's Eclipse plugin #26172
spring.profiles.include has outdated sourceType in configuration metadata #26165
Include spring.profiles.group in additional-spring-configuration-metadata.json #26164
Enhance multiple entity manager factories online documentation #26160
SQL init schema-locations and data-locations are missing metadata to cause them to be handled as Resources #26154
Replacements for spring.datasource.schema and spring.datasource.data are documented incorrectly #26150

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

Upgrade to ActiveMQ 5.16.2 #26528
Upgrade to Caffeine 2.9.1 #26529
Upgrade to Cassandra Driver 4.11.1 #26530
Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.1.5 #26531
Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.1.21 #26532
Upgrade to Ehcache 2.10.9.2 #26533
Upgrade to Ehcache3 3.9.3 #26534
Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7.12.1 #26535
Upgrade to Glassfish JAXB 2.3.4 #26536
Upgrade to Groovy 3.0.8 #26537
Upgrade to Hazelcast 4.1.3 #26538
Upgrade to Hibernate 5.4.31.Final #26539
Upgrade to HttpClient5 5.0.4 #26540
Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.1.1 #26541
Upgrade to Infinispan 12.1.3.Final #26542
Upgrade to Janino 3.1.4 #26543
Upgrade to JBoss Transaction SPI 7.6.1.Final #26544
Upgrade to Jedis 3.6.0 #26545
Upgrade to Jetty 9.4.41.v20210516 #26603
Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 1.1.8 #26546
Upgrade to Johnzon 1.2.11 #26548
Upgrade to jOOQ 3.14.9 #26549
Upgrade to Json-smart 2.4.7 #26550
Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 5.7.2 #26551
Upgrade to Kafka 2.7.1 #26552
Upgrade to Kotlin 1.5.0 #26553
Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.5.0 #26568
Upgrade to Lettuce 6.1.2.RELEASE #26554
Upgrade to Liquibase 4.3.5 #26555
Upgrade to MariaDB 2.7.3 #26556
Upgrade to Micrometer 1.7.0 #26379
Upgrade to MySQL 8.0.25 #26557
Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 4.2.5 #26558
Upgrade to Netty 4.1.65.Final #26604
Upgrade to Netty tcNative 2.0.39.Final #26560
Upgrade to Pooled JMS 1.2.2 #26561
Upgrade to Postgresql 42.2.20 #26562
Upgrade to R2DBC Bom Arabba-SR10 #26563
Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.7 #26359
Upgrade to SAAJ Impl 1.5.3 #26564
Upgrade to Solr 8.8.2 #26565
Upgrade to Spring AMQP 2.3.7 #26384
Upgrade to Spring Batch 4.3.3 #26392
Upgrade to Spring Data 2021.0.1 #26382
Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3.7 #26361
Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 1.3.1 #26380
Upgrade to Spring Integration 5.5.0 #26388
Upgrade to Spring Kafka 2.7.1 #26386
Upgrade to Spring LDAP 2.3.4 #26394
Upgrade to Spring Security 5.5.0 #26387
Upgrade to Spring Session 2021.0.0 #26389
Upgrade to Spring WS 3.1.1 #26390
Upgrade to Thymeleaf Layout Dialect 2.5.3 #26566
Upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.46 #26567

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!