⭐ New Features
- Provide a configuration property for Spring Batch's validateTransactionState #44803
- Auto-configure Spring Batch to use a JobsParametersConverter bean when available #44799
- Add Property for keepalive Setting of GraphQL SSE Handlers #44743
- Rationalize Groovy Template configuration properties #44722
- Add support for omitting the SameSite attribute from the session cookie #44714
- Add garbage collector info to process info contributor #44704
- Align behavior of the "nativeTest" Maven profile with "native" to make it suitable for multi-module projects #44696
- Provide configuration properties for customising the auto-configured BatchSpanProcessor #44655
- Introduce PollerMetadataCustomizer for customizing auto-configured Spring Integration PollerMetadata #44637
- Make auto-configured BatchSpanProcessor back off when the user defines their own #44601
- Remove support for URLConnectionSender #44500
- Add support for OpenTelemetry's service.namespace #44499
- Separate transports in GraphQL auto-configuration #44495
- Remove default value for OtlpMetricsProperties.url #44493
- Add configuration properties for JdbcTemplate's ignoreWarnings, skipResultsProcess, skipUndeclaredResults, and resultsMapCaseInsensitive #44470
- Remove support for management.otlp.metrics.export.resource-attributes that has been deprecated since 3.2 #44468
- Improve logging in DockerApi #44412
- Support OTEL_SERVICE_NAME and OTEL_RESOURCE_ATTRIBUTES environment variables #44394
- Add Service Connection support for lldap/lldap using Compose and Testcontainers #44389
- Introduce spring.data.mongodb.protocol to allow the MongoDB protocol to be customized when not using spring.data.mongodb.uri #44366
- Support auto-configuration of a DataSource without spring-jdbc on the classpath #43786
- Maven properties that are flagged read-only for command-line binding lead to warnings with Maven 4 #43699
- Provide
@ConditionalOn
… annotations for all concrete conditions #41044
🐞 Bug Fixes
- Actuator throws an exception when using prototype scoped DataSource bean #44762
- Checking if APR is available logs a warning on Java 24 #44705
- Failure diagnostics are poor when trying to use an image platform that is not supported by the builder #44640
- Docker API error message is missing in some cases #44631
- When an application contains multiple DataSource beans, EntityManagerFactoryBuilder will default ddl-auto to a value that may only be appropriate for the primary DataSource #44626
- DefaultJmsListenerContainerFactoryConfigurer#setObservationRegistry should not be public #44586
- When the main class is not proxied, native testing that uses the application's main method does not work #44482
- When loading configuration from a Resource, Log4J2LoggingSystem may not close the InputStream #44474
- When loading from a resource, PemContent does not close the InputStream #44455
- ResourceBanner does not close the InputStream used to read the banner #44453
- ConfigDataLocationResolvers and PropertySourceLoaders are loaded using a potentially different class loader #44451
- Kafka in native-image fails when using SSL bundles #44440
- Kafka message sending fails with 'class SslBundleSslEngineFactory could not be found' #44438
- Nested test classes don't inherit properties from
@DataJpaTest
on enclosing class #44408 - StandardStackTracePrinter prints root first if configured otherwise #44398
- Console logging incorrectly uses Charset.defaultCharset() or UTF-8 #44353
📔 Documentation
- Multiline properties in documentation are missing backslashes #44791
- Polish javadoc of SqlR2dbcScriptDatabaseInitializer #44766
- Document support for Java 24 #44756
- Update org.cyclonedx.bom version in docs to 2.2.0 #44753
- Remove OpenShift link that 404s #44749
- Fix link to javadoc for JavaExec.setArgsString #44537
- Fix typo in documentation #44524
- Fix typo in javadoc of CommonStructuredLogFormat#ELASTIC_COMMON_SCHEMA #44485
- Update descriptions of properties that no longer require Flyway Teams #44484
- Samples for metadata annotation processers have invalid fold attribute #44421
- Clarify which Mongo properties are ignored when URI property is set #44405
- Adapt Javadoc reference of JooqExceptionTranslator to use ExceptionTranslatorExecuteListener #44403
🔨 Dependency Upgrades
- Upgrade to ActiveMQ 6.1.6 #44670
- Upgrade to Artemis 2.40.0 #44777
- Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.23 #44715
- Upgrade to Awaitility 4.3.0 #44602
- Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.17.2 #44603
- Upgrade to Flyway 11.4.0 #44778
- Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.26 #44605
- Upgrade to Hibernate 6.6.11.Final #44741
- Upgrade to HtmlUnit 4.10.0 #44607
- Upgrade to Infinispan 15.1.7.Final #44608
- Upgrade to Jackson Bom 2.18.3 #44609
- Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.18 #44779
- Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 4.0.9 #44610
- Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.21 #44672
- Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 5.12.1 #44780
- Upgrade to Lettuce 6.5.5.RELEASE #44686
- Upgrade to Logback 1.5.18 #44781
- Upgrade to Maven Compiler Plugin 3.14.0 #44615
- Upgrade to Maven Deploy Plugin 3.1.4 #44616
- Upgrade to Maven Install Plugin 3.1.4 #44617
- Upgrade to Micrometer 1.15.0-M3 #44587
- Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.5.0-M3 #44588
- Upgrade to Mockito 5.16.1 #44782
- Upgrade to MSSQL JDBC 12.10.0.jre11 #44783
- Upgrade to Native Build Tools Plugin 0.10.6 #44709
- Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.28.3 #44687
- Upgrade to Netty 4.1.119.Final #44619
- Upgrade to OpenTelemetry 1.48.0 #44784
- Upgrade to Pulsar 4.0.3 #44620
- Upgrade to R2DBC MySQL 1.4.0 #44621
- Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2024.0.4 #44589
- Upgrade to Selenium 4.29.0 #44622
- Upgrade to Selenium HtmlUnit 4.29.0 #44623
- Upgrade to SLF4J 2.0.17 #44624
- Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.2.4 #44742
- Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.5.0-M2 #44590
- Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.2.2 #44591
- Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2025.0.0-M2 #44592
- Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.5 #44732
- Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.4.0-M1 #44593
- Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.5.0-M3 #44594
- Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.3.4 #44595
- Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.3.0-M3 #44596
- Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.2.4 #44597
- Upgrade to Spring Security 6.5.0-M3 #44598
- Upgrade to Spring WS 4.1.0-M1 #44599
- Upgrade to Testcontainers 1.20.6 #44625
- Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.39 #44673
- Upgrade to WebJars Locator Lite 1.1.0 #44785
❤️ Contributors
Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:
@KmYgJn, @abelsromero, @bekoenig, @bernie-schelberg-invicara, @dmitrysulman, @eddumelendez, @filiphr, @izeye, @jonatan-ivanov, @metters, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @nosan, @quaff, @thecooldrop, and @typat