⚠️ Noteworthy Changes
- The dependency on
org.eclipse.jetty.ee11:jetty-ee11-servletshas been removed fromspring-boot-jettyas it was unnecessary and unused. If your application code depends on a class fromjetty-ee11-servlets, declare a dependency on it in your build configuration. #48677
🐞 Bug Fixes
- No TransactionAutoConfiguration with spring-boot-starter-kafka for Spring Boot 4 #48880
- Evaluation of bean conditions unnecessarily queries the bean factory for types that are not present #48840
- When a bean condition references a type that is not present, it appears as ? in the condition evaluation report #48838
- SessionAutoConfiguration creates a DefaultCookieSerializer with a default SameSite of null instead of Lax #48830
- Setting graphql schema location to "classpath*:graphql/**/" causes failure due to incorrectly packaged test resource #48829
- Message interpolation by MVC and WebFlux's Validators does not work correctly in a native image #48828
- CloudFoundry integration fails in Servlet-based web app without a dependency on spring-boot-starter-restclient #48826
- RestTestClientAutoConfiguration and TestRestTemplateAutoConfiguration should be package-private #48820
- SSL metrics are no longer auto-configured #48819
- Actuator /info endpoint fails in Java 25 Native Image (VirtualThreadSchedulerMXBean support) #48812
- DataSourceBuilder cannot create oracle.ucp.jdbc.PoolDataSourceImpl in a native image #48703
- The spring-boot-cloudfoundry module should only have an optional dependency on spring-boot-security #48685
- Application JAR created by extract command is not reproductible #48678
- AOT processing of tests should not be disabled when 'skipTests' is set #48662
@SpringBootTest(webEnvironment = WebEnvironment.RANDOM_PORT) is no longer applied to the management server #48653- Fix zero-length byte buffer in InspectedContent #48650
- Can no longer override JacksonJsonHttpMessageConverter with ServerHttpMessageConvertersCustomizer #48635
- HttpServiceClientProperties incorrectly uses the
@ConfigurationPropertiesannotation on a LinkedHashMap class #48616 - spring-boot-micrometer-tracing-opentelemetry fails if spring-boot-opentelemetry isn't there #48585
- App fails to start with starter-webmvc and starter-zipkin #48581
- Micrometer test modules should have an api dependency on micrometer-observation-test #48386
📔 Documentation
- Fix typo in REST client documentation #48907
- Remove duplicate word #48874
- Document support for configuring arguments passed to Docker Compose #48806
- The documentation related to EnvironmentPostProcessor links to deprecated interface #48803
- Update documentation for Buildpack's AOT Cache support #48769
- Correct docs to use new location for error handling configuration properties #48767
- Document spring-boot-starter-cloudfoundry on Cloud Foundry Support Page #48675
- Clarify javadoc to make it clear that HazelcastConfigCustomizer beans are only applied if Hazelcast is configured via a config file #48659
- Example using excludeDevtools property should document that optional dependencies should be enabled #48641
- Fix grammar and typos in the reference guide #48601
- Update Tracing section for Spring Boot 4's modularity #48576
🔨 Dependency Upgrades
- Upgrade to Classmate 1.7.3 #48783
- Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 9.2.3 #48721
- Upgrade to Hibernate 7.2.1.Final #48857
- Upgrade to HttpClient5 5.5.2 #48784
- Upgrade to Jackson 2 Bom 2.20.2 #48910
- Upgrade to Jackson Bom 3.0.4 #48931
- Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 6.0.2 #48785
- Upgrade to Lettuce 6.8.2.RELEASE #48859
- Upgrade to Logback 1.5.24 #48786
- Upgrade to Logback 1.5.25 #48885
- Upgrade to Micrometer 1.16.2 #48712
- Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.6.2 #48713
- Upgrade to Native Build Tools Plugin 0.11.4 #48911
- Upgrade to Pooled JMS 3.1.9 #48787
- Upgrade to Postgresql 42.7.9 #48886
- Upgrade to R2DBC MSSQL 1.0.4.RELEASE #48858
- Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2025.0.2 #48714
- Upgrade to Spring AMQP 4.0.2 #48832
- Upgrade to Spring Batch 6.0.2 #48715
- Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2025.1.2 #48716
- Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.0.3 #48717
- Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 2.0.2 #48718
- Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 3.0.2 #48834
- Upgrade to Spring Integration 7.0.2 #48833
- Upgrade to Spring Kafka 4.0.2 #48719
- Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 2.0.2 #48720
- Upgrade to WebJars Locator Lite 1.1.3 #48788
- Upgrade to XML Maven Plugin 1.2.1 #48887
❤️ Contributors
Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:
@GaoSSR, @ShaunHaldane, @Zuohuang-Cai, @izeye, @mspiess, @ngocnhan-tran1996, and @philipbolting