:star: New Features

• Allow additional interfaces to be defined on AssertableApplicationContext and ApplicationContextRunners #42369
• Add spring.jms.listener.max-messages-per-task property for configuring max messages per task #42341
• Support @DependsOn, @Description, @Fallback, @Lazy, @Primary, and @Role on @ConfigurationProperties beans #42289
• Add Pulsar container factory customizers #42182
• Use @EnableConfigurationProperties to define the MessageSourceProperties bean #42181
• Add OpenTelemetry Logging service connection support from LgtmStackContainer and Docker Compose #42174
• Add transport selection to OtlpLoggingConnectionDetails #42171
• Add Graylog Extended Log Format (GELF) for structured logging #42158
• Add consistent scope support ConfigurationProperties beans #42073
• Apply spring.pulsar.consumer.subscription.name to auto-configured Pulsar listener container #42067
• Add support for configuring Pulsar listener container concurrency #42062
• Add support for configuring Pulsar client IO and listener threads #42052
• Add support for Log4j2's MultiFormatStringBuilderFormattable in structured logging #42034
• Use early static registration of EventPublishingContextWrapper in tests #42005
• Add configuration support for ExponentialHistogram in OTLP Registry #41837
• Support testcontainers-redis #41450
• Support Otlp Tracing's GRPC port from service connections #41333
• Add service connection from Opentelemetry Collector for Logging #41324
• Add auto-configuration for OTLP gRPC format when using tracing #41213
• Add a configuration property for Spring Data Web's serialization mode #39797
• Reinstate support for auto-configuring an embedded ActiveMQ broker #38404
• Enable graceful shutdown by default #37495
• Allow the configuration of active profiles in SpringApplication.Augmented #36660
• Reduce the need for @AutoConfigureTestDatabase(replace=NONE) when using a test-provided database #35253
• Remove setting BP_NATIVE_IMAGE environment variable when building images #32884
• Provide support for deprecated auto-configuration classes #14860

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• management.health.db.ignore-routing-datasources=true has no effect when an AbstractRoutingDataSource has been wrapped #42323
• Missing details in OAuth2ClientProperties validation error message #42280
• FileNotFoundException from unused mis-configured SSL bundles #42170
• ZipkinHttpClientSender fails with "Failed to introspect Class" when spring-web is not on the classpath #42160
• @RestartScope can cause 'Recursive update' exceptions when used with container beans #42108
• JarLauncher fails to load large jar files #42080
• PropertiesMigrationListener wrongly reports property as deprecated when has group #42072
• Using an empty string MongoDB 'replica-set-name' property will result in ClusterType=REPLICA_SET #42060
• Binding spring.main.* properties doesn't work in a native image #42038
• Default Logback config uses deprecated "converterClass" attribute #42008
• Health endpoint additional paths are not available by default when Spring Security is used #40962
• Application yaml file is not processed after spring boot migration #35403

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Document that spring.jmx.enabled is not intended for third-party libraries #42286
• Update link to Log4j2 system properties #42264
• Links to GraphQL in the reference guide redirect to the root instead of specific sections #42209
• Syntax error in "Receive a message reactively section" of the reference guide #42201
• Deprecation reason for the autotime enabled, percentiles, and percentiles-historgram properties is confusing #42194
• Replace RFC 7807 by RFC 9457 in property documentation #42191
• Document that configuration property binding to a Kotlin value class with a default is not supported #42177
• Update documentation to reflect new no handler found exception behavior #42168
• Polish configuration property reference #42166
• Improve docker without buildpacks documentation #42114
• Fix StatsD link typo on Metrics documentation page #42113
• Remove link to “Converting a Spring Boot JAR Application to a WAR” as the guide is no longer available #42112
• Improve documentation in "Command-line Completion" #42104
• Kotlin code examples are missing from the Testing section #42096
• Fix incorrect command in Docker configuration for Colima #42083
• Add tip to correlation IDs documentation referencing spring.reactor.context-propagation=auto #42054
• Gradle Plugin AOT documentation has sample error #42051
• Add documentation for configuring OpenTelemetry SDK logs #41825

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Artemis 2.37.0 #42213
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.15.1 #42215
• Upgrade to Commons Lang3 3.17.0 #42216
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 8.15.1 #42217
• Upgrade to Flyway 10.18.0 #42295
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.23 #42296
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.6.1.Final #42349
• Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.3 #42297
• Upgrade to Infinispan 15.0.8.Final #42219
• Upgrade to Jakarta Servlet JSP JSTL 3.0.2 #42220
• Upgrade to JBoss Logging 3.6.1.Final #42221
• Upgrade to Jedis 5.1.5 #42222
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.13 #42224
• Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 4.0.7 #42223
• Upgrade to Lettuce 6.4.0.RELEASE #42225
• Upgrade to Liquibase 4.29.2 #42226
• Upgrade to Log4j2 2.24.0 #42227
• Upgrade to Logback 1.5.8 #42228
• Upgrade to Maven Dependency Plugin 3.8.0 #42229
• Upgrade to Maven Failsafe Plugin 3.5.0 #42230
• Upgrade to Maven Help Plugin 3.5.0 #42231
• Upgrade to Maven Invoker Plugin 3.8.0 #42232
• Upgrade to Maven Javadoc Plugin 3.10.0 #42233
• Upgrade to Maven Surefire Plugin 3.5.0 #42234
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.14.0-M3 #42137
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.4.0-M3 #42138
• Upgrade to Mockito 5.13.0 #42235
• Upgrade to MongoDB 5.1.4 #42236
• Upgrade to MSSQL JDBC 12.8.1.jre11 #42237
• Upgrade to Native Build Tools Plugin 0.10.3 #42206
• Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 5.24.0 #42271
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.113.Final #42238
• Upgrade to OpenTelemetry 1.42.1 #42298
• Upgrade to Postgresql 42.7.4 #42239
• Upgrade to R2DBC MariaDB 1.2.2 #42328
• Upgrade to R2DBC MySQL 1.3.0 #42240
• Upgrade to Rabbit AMQP Client 5.22.0 #42350
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2024.0.0-M6 #42139
• Upgrade to Selenium 4.24.0 #42241
• Upgrade to SendGrid 4.10.3 #42368
• Upgrade to SnakeYAML 2.3 #42242
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.2.0-M3 #42140
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.4.0-M2 #42141
• Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.2.0-M1 #42142
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2024.1.0-M1 #42143
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.2.0-RC1 #42144
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.4.0-RC1 #42283
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.4.0-M3 #42145
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.3.0-M3 #42146
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.2.0-M2 #42147
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.9 #42329
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.4.0-M4 #42148
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.30 #42347
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.3.17.Final #42304
• Upgrade to Zipkin Reporter 3.4.2 #42367

:heart: Contributors

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

@Alchemik, @PiyalAhmed, @abc5259, @arefbehboudi, @bazzi2548, @eddumelendez, @einarpehrson, @famaridon, @izeye, @martinfrancois, @mushroom528, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @nosan, @onobc, @quaff, @slissner, @timpeeters, and @vpavic