:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• KafkaProperties fail to build SSL properties when the bundle name is an empty string #43561
• With multiple ResourceHandlerRegistrationCustomizer beans in the context, only one of them is used #43494
• Kafka dependency management does not include the kafka-server module #43450
• Failures in -Djarmode=tools do not consistently return a non-zero exit #43435
• SpringApplicationShutdownHandlers do not run in deterministic order #43430
• Failure analysis for InvalidConfigurationPropertyValueException doesn't correctly handle fuzzy matching of environment variables #43380
• Diagnostics are poor when property resolution throws a ConversionFailedException #43378
• Unable to find a @SpringBootConfiguration results in misleading error message #43357
• H2ConsoleAutoConfiguration causes early initialization of DataSource beans #43337
• Accept progress on numbers >2GB #43328
• Overriding log level with an environment variable does not work when using an environment prefix #43304
• Methods to build producer / consumer properties from KafkaProperties are inconvienenent to use without an SSL bundle #43300
• UnsupportedOperationException when starting a Maven shaded application on Java 21 with virtual threads enabled #43284
• Unable to use Docker Compose support when mixing dedicated and shared services #40139

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Fix typo in documentation #43557
• Fix typo #43512
• Links to logback javadoc are incorrect #43439
• Fix JUnit javadoc links #43383
• Document that server.ssl.cipher and server.ssl.enabled-protocols are not fallbacks used with SSL bundles #43353
• Restore System property in Logging section of the reference documentation #43341
• Use <annotationProcessorPaths> in Maven examples for configuring an annotation processor #43329
• Fix link to proxyBeanMethods in @AutoConfiguration javadoc #43323
• Fix links to Servlet and JPA javadoc #43320
• Link to @EnableMethodSecurity instead of the deprecated @EnableGlobalMethodSecurity #43308
• Fix Javadoc link for Hikari #43305

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Dependency Management Plugin 1.1.7 #43542
• Upgrade to Hibernate Validator 8.0.2.Final #43509
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.0.16 #43487
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.16 #43463
• Upgrade to Kafka 3.7.2 #43502
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.13.9 #43388
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.3.7 #43389
• Upgrade to Native Build Tools Plugin 0.10.4 #43385
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.116.Final #43549
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2023.0.13 #43390
• Upgrade to RxJava3 3.1.10 #43386
• Upgrade to Spring Authorization Server 1.3.4 #43391
• Upgrade to Spring Batch 5.1.3 #43474
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2024.0.7 #43392
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.1.16 #43393
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.3.4 #43475
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.3.7 #43476
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.2.6 #43394
• Upgrade to Spring LDAP 3.2.10 #43395
• Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 1.1.7 #43396
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.11 #43485
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.3.6 #43527
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.3.5 #43397
• Upgrade to Thymeleaf 3.1.3.RELEASE #43464
• Upgrade to Thymeleaf Extras SpringSecurity 3.1.3.RELEASE #43465
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.34 #43466
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.3.18.Final #43387
• Upgrade to Zipkin Reporter 3.4.3 #43462

:heart: Contributors

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

@BenchmarkingBuffalo, @kgb-financial-com, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @nosan, @quaff, @scordio, and @sobychacko