:star: New Features

• Reintroduce support for ActiveMQ #35048
• Add SSL bundle support to MongoDB auto-configuration #35042
• Allow maven to filter spring-boot-docker-compose module #35027
• Allow LogLevel to be used easily with commons logging #35024
• Provide auto-configuration for testcontainer service connections #35022
• Support testcontainers lifecycle methods when used as Spring beans #35021
• Add SpringApplication.from(...) support #35019
• Refactor @ServiceConnection so that technology specific annotations are not required #35017
• Add aggregation temporality to OtlpProperties #34958
• Add properties to support device grant with Spring Authorization Server #34957
• Allow to customize opentelemetry SdkTracerProvider #34945
• Reinstate dependency management for R2DBC MySQL driver #34927
• Add Testcontainers integration for OracleContainer with R2DBC #34852
• Allow MockServerRestTemplateCustomizer to configure MockRestServiceServer's content buffering #34833
• Provide centralized configuration of SSL properties #34814
• Add SSL bundle support to Couchbase auto-configuration #34811
• Add SSL bundle support to RestTemplateBuilder auto-configuration #34810
• Fail more gracefully when a service connection is configured on a non-static field #34795
• Allow the application directory in an image built with buildpacks to be configurable #34786
• Add service connection from Testcontainers Redpanda #34780
• Auto-configure property-based ?ConnectionDetails beans when there is no existing ?ConnectionDetails bean #34776
• Offer a way to customize the converters used by Spring Batch without extending DefaultBatchConfiguration #34769
• Create dedicated spring-boot-testcontainers module #34757
• Add support for additional colors in Log4j2 and Logback #34749
• Provide support for auto-configuring service connections from Docker Compose #34747
• Rename OAuth2ClientPropertiesRegistrationAdapter to align with PropertyMapper name #34714
• Allow components that are called before context refresh to use SpringApplication's shutdown handlers #34627
• Reinstate dependency management for org.mariadb:r2dbc-mariadb as it now supports R2DBC 1.0 #34625
• Add auto-configuration for OTLP span exporter #34508
• Prevent startup if a health indicator referenced in a health group does not exist #34360
• Allow docker image creation timestamp to be configurable #28798
• Add SSL bundle support to Cassandra auto-configuration #25602
• Provide a mechanism for customising the auto-configured NimbusJwtDecoders #20750
• Add SSL bundle support to WebClient auto-configuration #18556

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• CloudFoundry integration does not use endpoint path mappings #35087
• ApplicationAvailability bean is auto-configured even if a custom one is already present #35069
• Gradle Spring Boot plugin with Kotlin DSL does not support includeProjectDependencies in bootJar > layered > dependencies configuration #35036
• Hints for including Liquibase changelogs in a native image are unnecessarily narrow #34936
• Unlike @EnableBatchProcessing, auto-configuration for Spring Batch does not enable observability of steps and jobs #34867
• Cassandra default configuration substitutions don't resolve against configuration derived from spring.data.cassandra properties #34800
• Banner placeholders use default values too soon #34793
• Service connections from a test class's enclosing class are not found #34790
• spring-boot-starter-oauth2-authorization-server is missing from spring-boot-dependencies #34785
• Nested test classes don't inherit properties from slice test annotations on enclosing class #34782
• DataSource auto-configuration does not use the driver class name from JdbcConnectionDetails #34777
• Maven compiler plugin configuration should not include source and target as maven.compiler.release is already set #34761

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Improve documentation of tracing dependencies and configuration properties #35040
• Add missing containers configuration reference to code snippet #35031
• Document docker compose support #35026
• Move testcontainers documentation from howto to features #35018
• Use current Neo4j version in Testcontainers-based examples #34941
• BatchProperties has an outdated reference to JPA #34937
• Document that optional dependencies are included by default in fat jars built with Maven #34789
• Document requirement for Maven 3.6.3 or later #34759

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Brave 5.15.1 #34999
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.4 #34873
• Upgrade to Caffeine 3.1.6 #34931
• Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.4.5 #35060
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 8.7.0 #34979
• Upgrade to Flyway 9.16.3 #34990
• Upgrade to GraphQL Java 20.2 #34987
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.11 #34874
• Upgrade to Hazelcast 5.2.3 #34875
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.2.1.Final #35000
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.8.Final #34932
• Upgrade to Jackson Bom 2.15.0-rc3 #35061
• Upgrade to Jaxen 2.0.0 #35001
• Upgrade to Jaybird 5.0.1.java11 #35002
• Upgrade to Jetty 11.0.15 #34981
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.18.3 #34982
• Upgrade to Json Path 2.8.0 #34878
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.8.20 #34879
• Upgrade to Lettuce 6.2.4.RELEASE #35062
• Upgrade to Logback 1.4.7 #35093
• Upgrade to Maven Deploy Plugin 3.1.1 #34880
• Upgrade to Maven Enforcer Plugin 3.3.0 #34881
• Upgrade to Maven Failsafe Plugin 3.0.0 #35003
• Upgrade to Maven Install Plugin 3.1.1 #34882
• Upgrade to Maven Invoker Plugin 3.5.1 #34883
• Upgrade to Maven Resources Plugin 3.3.1 #34884
• Upgrade to Maven Surefire Plugin 3.0.0 #35004
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.11.0-RC1 #34862
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.1.0-RC1 #34863
• Upgrade to Mockito 5.3.0 #34998
• Upgrade to MongoDB 4.9.1 #34933
• Upgrade to MySQL 8.0.33 #35063
• Upgrade to Native Build Tools Plugin 0.9.21 #34984
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.7.0 #34934
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.91.Final #34885
• Upgrade to OpenTelemetry 1.25.0 #35005
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2022.0.6 #34864
• Upgrade to SAAJ Impl 3.0.1 #35007
• Upgrade to Selenium 4.8.3 #34886
• Upgrade to Selenium HtmlUnit 4.8.3 #35094
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.4 #34967
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.1.0-RC1 #35013
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.0.0-RC1 #34893
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.8 #34865
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.2.0-RC1 #34972
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.1.0-RC1 #34985
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.1.0-RC1 #34973
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.0.6 #34968
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.1.0-RC1 #34986
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.1.0-RC1 #34969
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.1.0-RC1 #34970
• Upgrade to Spring WS 4.0.3 #34971
• Upgrade to SQLite JDBC 3.41.2.1 #34887
• Upgrade to Testcontainers 1.18.0 #34888
• Upgrade to Thymeleaf Layout Dialect 3.2.1 #34889
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.8 #35095
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.3.5.Final #34890
• Upgrade to Yasson 3.0.3 #34891

:heart: Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Abhijeetmishr, @EvaristeGalois11, @Ferioney, @RobertRad, @SeasonPanPan, @acktsap, @arend-von-reinersdorff, @bendiscz, @benelog, @chinmoy12c, @dreis2211, @eddumelendez, @isabek, @izeye, @jonatan-ivanov, @kdomo, @krzyk, @marbon87, @meistermeier, @quaff, and @sjohnr