⭐ New Features
- Reinstate support for Ehcache 3 #30002
- Reinstate support for H2 Console #29755
- Raise the minimum supported version of Gradle to 7.4 #29674
- Raise the minimum supported version of Kotlin to 1.6 #29660
- Remove values from JavaVersion enum for Java versions less than 17 #29503
- Allow
@DefaultValueto be used on record components #29010 - Remove image banner support #28883
- Provide dependency management for RxJava 3 in place of 1.x and 2.x #28212
- Allow
@ConstructorBindingto be optional #23216
🐞 Bug Fixes
- spring-boot-dependencies contains dependency management for spring-boot-starter-jta-atomikos which no longer exists #29653
- spring-boot-dependencies contains dependency management for spring-boot-starter-activemq which no longer exists #29645
📔 Documentation
- Update documentation about Spock to reflect Groovy 4.0 requirement #30318
- Add reference to Casdoor Spring Boot Starter #30220
- Document that the minimum supported version of Kotlin is now 1.6 #30197
🔨 Dependency Upgrades
- Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.9 #30418
- Upgrade to Caffeine 3.0.6 #30363
- Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.1 #30279
- Upgrade to Hibernate Validator 7.0.4.Final #30364
- Upgrade to Jetty 11.0.8 #30367
- Upgrade to Jetty EL 10.0.14 #30365
- Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 3.0.5 #30366
- Upgrade to jOOQ 3.16.5 #30368
- Upgrade to Kotlin 1.6.20-RC2 #30369
- Upgrade to Micrometer 2.0.0-M3 #29753
- Upgrade to MongoDB 4.5.1 #30419
- Upgrade to RxJava3 3.1.4 #30370
- Upgrade to SendGrid 4.9.1 #30420
- Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.0-M2 #30201
- Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.0.0-M2 #30232
- Upgrade to Spring Data 2022.0.0-M3 #30361
- Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.0-M3 #29957
- Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.0.0-M2 #30371
- Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.0-M2 #30204
- Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.0.0-M3 #30089
- Upgrade to Spring REST Docs 3.0.0-M2 #29544
- Upgrade to Spring Security 6.0.0-M3 #30202
- Upgrade to Spring WS 4.0.0-M2 #30203
- Upgrade to Thymeleaf Layout Dialect 3.1.0 #30312
- Upgrade to Tomcat 10.0.18 #30320
❤️ Contributors
We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!