:star: New Features

• Auto-configure observations for RestClients #38500
• Add support for Oracle Free, the replacement for Oracle XE, with Testcontainers and Docker Compose #38476
• Provide dependency management for org.crac:crac #38378
• Add new properties for Liquibase 4.24.0 #38274
• Provide a way to create custom ApplicationContextFactory in SpringBootContextLoader #38205
• Report friendly error when failing to find AOT initializer #38188

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Annotation based ConditionalOnBean checks can cause early initialization of FactoryBeans #38507
• CRaC restoration fails when Actuator's running on a separate port #38502
• App that depends on Tomcat and on Jetty's websocket-server module fails to start with IllegalStateException: WebSocketComponents has not been created #38286
• App fails to start with a NoSuchMethodError when using Flyway 10.0.0 #38268
• MeterRegistry throws BeanCreationNotAllowedException on shutdown #38240
• Resolution of productionRuntimeClasspath configuration may select the wrong variant and contain a dependency's source jar #38233
• Docker JSON parsing fails on certain locales #38220
• FileNotFoundException is thrown serving resources due to JarUrlConnection.getLastModified() returning zero #38204
• Failed to extract parameter names exception thrown when binding with non-enumerable property source #38201
• Spring Boot 3.2.0-RC1 application fails on JDK with CRaC but without a dependency on org.crac:crac #38186
• Missing configuration processing for PartEvent support #37642

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Document supported SQL comment prefixes #38496
• Update access log pattern documentation to align with changes in Tomcat 10 #38425
• Update Dynatrace docs with info about the meter metadata toggle #38368
• Improve documentation regarding tracing in tests #38362
• Document the accepted inputs when configuring tags on spring-boot:build-image and bootBuildImage #38354
• Document how to use cloudfoundry specific actuators with a custom base path for webflux applications #38353
• Document Liberica JDK with CRaC #38350
• Add a Restarting a stopped or failed Job section to the batch howto #38341
• Clarify documentation on importing Testcontainer declarations and using @ServiceConnection or @DynamicPropertySource #38337
• Make distinction between Testcontainers for integration tests and development more clear in documentation #38336
• When using Testcontainers at development time with @ServiceConnection on a @Bean method, describe when to use the name attribute and why #38335
• Fix link to Elasticsearch health indicator #38334
• Update Spring Framework documentation links #38289
• Code sample in "Developing Your First Spring Boot Application" does not work #38272
• Improve --help and documentation for "encodepassword -a/--algorithm" in the Spring Boot CLI #38249
• Add how-to documentation for test-only database migrations with Flyway/Liquibase #38231
• Document that PEM content can be used directly in application.yaml #38215
• Document that TomcatConnectorCustomizers are not applied to additional connectors #38198

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.20.1 #38358
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.10 #38407
• Upgrade to DB2 JDBC 11.5.9.0 #38408
• Upgrade to Dependency Management Plugin 1.1.4 #38346
• Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.22 #38409
• Upgrade to GraphQL Java 21.3 #38478
• Upgrade to Hazelcast 5.3.6 #38410
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.21.Final #38411
• Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 5.10.1 #38412
• Upgrade to Kotlin Serialization 1.6.1 #38413
• Upgrade to Lettuce 6.3.0.RELEASE #38414
• Upgrade to Maven Javadoc Plugin 3.6.2 #38415
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.12.0 #38305
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.2.0 #38306
• Upgrade to Mockito 5.7.0 #38479
• Upgrade to MongoDB 4.11.1 #38416
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.101.Final #38417
• Upgrade to Pooled JMS 3.1.5 #38418
• Upgrade to Pulsar Reactive 0.5.0 #38406
• Upgrade to Rabbit Stream Client 0.14.0 #38480
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.0 #38307
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.1.0 #38308
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.2.0 #38309
• Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.1.0 #38310
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.1.0 #38311
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.1 #38451
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.2.4 #38313
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.2.0 #38314
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.2.0 #38315
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.1.0 #38316
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.2.0 #38317
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.0.0 #38419
• Upgrade to Spring RESTDocs 3.0.1 #38420
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.2.0 #38318
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.2.0 #38319
• Upgrade to Spring WS 4.0.8 #38320
• Upgrade to Testcontainers 1.19.3 #38471
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.16 #38421
• Upgrade to Versions Maven Plugin 2.16.2 #38422
• Upgrade to WebJars Locator Core 0.55 #38481

:heart: Contributors

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

@EvaristeGalois11, @PENEKhun, @abdullah-jaffer, @audtjddld, @cachescrubber, @dreis2211, @eddumelendez, @izeye, @jonatan-ivanov, @pirgeo, @quaff, and @sdeleuze