:star: New Features

• Use ObservationRequestEventListener in order to support traces when using Jersey #39633
• Configure suitable TaskExecutor for WebSocket when virtual threads are enabled #39611
• Implement HttpClient based Zipkin sender #39545
• Switch to Jersey's jersey-micrometer module for Jersey metrics #39502
• Introduce @BatchTransactionManager to make it easier to configure Spring Batch to use a custom transaction manager #39473
• Add customizer callback for WebHttpHandlerBuilder #39467
• Makes it easier to customize a Servlet-based web server's mime mappings #39430
• Add nameIdFormat to Properties #39395
• Add service connection for Docker Compose and Testcontainers ActiveMQ #39363
• Add Artemis Service Connection for Docker Compose and Testcontainers #39311
• Unify 'observation-enabled' property defaults #39276
• Add ConnectionDetails and Service Connection and Docker-Compose support for LDAP #39258
• Include the environment's default profiles in the env endpoint's response #39257
• Use meta-annotations on @AutoConfigureWebMvc to compose it with @AutoConfigureJson #39253
• Add liquibase ui-service property #39227
• Add conditional bean for jOOQ exception translator #38762
• Add support for Bitnami container images with Docker Compose #35759
• Provide a reactive actuator endpoint for (username indexed) session repositories #32046

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Nested jar URLs can not be resolved if the path contains spaces #39690
• Image building runs for a long time when a long image name is used and the tag contains an illegal character #39639
• Banner printing doesn't respect set charset #39622
• "micrometer.observations.*" configuration properties should be "management.observations.*" #39603
• Metadata reading during configuration class parsing uses the default resource loader rather than the application's resource loader #39599
• WebFlux auto-configuration should only configure the blocking executor when virtual threads are enabled #39542
• Creating a RestClient from a RestTemplateBuilder-created RestTemplate requires double configuration of the baseUrl/rootUri #39536
• Several gson properties, including spring.gson.disable-html-escaping, do not behave correctly when set to false #39525
• Property placeholders aren't resolved when configuration property binding creates a Map from a property value using a converter #39516
• Gradle plugin allows the use of Gradle 7.4 but the documented and tested minimum is 7.5 #39514
• TestcontainersPropertySource assertion has typo #39450
• Webflux actuator endpoints respond with 500 when a parameter is missing #39445
• NoSuchMethod error when using the non-shaded Pulsar client and configuring authentications parameters #39424
• Jetty GracefulShutdown writes to System.out #39365
• Auto-configured ConcurrentPulsarListenerContainerFactory and PulsarConsumerFactory cannot be injected into injection points with specific generic type information #39356
• Building images fails with Docker 25.0 when custom buildpacks are configured #39348
• Startup failure when you have multiple @DynamicPropertySources in Spring Boot 3.2.2 #39346
• Mockito's MockedStatic isn't closed in all cases #39273
• TracingProperties exposes package-private PropagationType from public methods #39269

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Add note regarding mixing of bundle-based and direct SSL configuration #39642
• Document that task executor pool size properties are ignored when using virtual threads #39632
• Add link to Pulsar workaround when using environment variables for authentication #39631
• Document default value for show-value configuration properties #39597
• Clarify that configuration properties only apply to the auto-configured OpenTelemetry Resource bean #39517
• Add Javadoc for ServerProperties.mimeMappings #39503
• Update the Debugging Documentation of the Spring Boot Maven Plugin #39423
• Awaitility link in Test Scoped Dependencies is incorrect #39417
• Fixed NestedJarFile constructor javadoc #39338
• Endpoint documentation contains the typo 'Unuthorized' #39281
• Update Revved up by Develocity badge #39264

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade Pulsar to 3.2.0 and use Pulsar BOM #39408
• Upgrade to Artemis 2.32.0 #39695
• Upgrade to AssertJ 3.25.3 #39696
• Upgrade to Brave 6 and Zipkin Reporter 3 #39049
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.12 #39697
• Upgrade to Commons Codec 1.16.1 #39698
• Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.5.3 #39699
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 8.11.4 #39700
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.18 #39701
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.4.4.Final #39702
• Upgrade to HttpClient5 5.3.1 #39703
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.24.Final #39704
• Upgrade to Janino 3.1.12 #39705
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.6 #39707
• Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 4.0.3 #39706
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.4 #39708
• Upgrade to JsonPath 2.9.0 #39394
• Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 5.10.2 #39709
• Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.8.0 #39710
• Upgrade to Kotlin Serialization 1.6.3 #39711
• Upgrade to Liquibase 4.26.0 #39712
• Upgrade to Log4j2 2.23.0 #39713
• Upgrade to MariaDB 3.3.3 #39714
• Upgrade to Maven Shade Plugin 3.5.2 #39715
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.0-M1 #38984
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.3.0-M1 #38985
• Upgrade to Mockito 5.10.0 #39716
• Upgrade to MSSQL JDBC 12.6.1.jre11 #39717
• Upgrade to Native Build Tools Plugin 0.10.1 #39718
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.17.0 #39535
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.107.Final #39719
• Upgrade to Postgresql 42.7.2 #39720
• Upgrade to Pulsar Reactive 0.5.3 #39721
• Upgrade to QueryDSL 5.1.0 #39722
• Upgrade to R2DBC MySQL 1.1.1 #39723
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.3 #39489
• Upgrade to Selenium 4.18.1 #39724
• Upgrade to SendGrid 4.10.2 #39725
• Upgrade to SLF4J 2.0.12 #39726
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.1.2 #39490
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.3.0-M2 #39491
• Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.1.1 #39492
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.1.3 #39493
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.4 #39494
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.3.0-M1 #39495
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.3.0-M1 #39496
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.2.0-M1 #39497
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.2.2 #39498
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.1.0-M1 #39499
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.3.0-M2 #39500
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.3.0-M2 #39727
• Upgrade to SQLite JDBC 3.45.1.0 #39728
• Upgrade to Testcontainers 1.19.6 #39729
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.19 #39730
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.3.12.Final #39731

:heart: Contributors

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

@BenchmarkingBuffalo, @EvaristeGalois11, @MelleD, @PhilKes, @PiyalAhmed, @Tish17, @Wzy19930507, @amritagg, @codefromthecrypt, @dependabot[bot], @eddumelendez, @erichaagdev, @gdmrw, @izeye, @jonas-grgt, @kilink, @lukasdo, @okohub, @onobc, @qlido, @ramilS, @slovi, @smurf667, @snicoll, @tobias-lippert, @totti-dev, @vj-atlassian, @vjh0107, @vpavic, @wanger26, and @xpmxf4