:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• ScheduledBeanLazyInitializationExcludeFilter is auto-configured even when annotation-based scheduled has not been enabled #33276
• Configuration property binding does not deal with bridge methods #33105
• SpringBootContextLoader prints banner twice when using a @ContextHierarchy #33079
• Dependency management for XMLUnit is incomplete #32998
• Spring Boot's Lettuce metrics enable histrograms by default and it's hard to switch them off #32985
• Configuring management.server.port via a config tree results in a ConverterNotFoundException when the management context is refreshed #32941
• NumberFormatException when configuring spring.redis.sentinel.nodes with an IPv6 address #32762
• Properties migrator causes an application to fail to start if it tries to map a property whose metadata data entry contains an invalid configuration property name #32729
• Dependency management for Selenium is incomplete #32721

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Link to Micrometer's @Timed documentation #33264
• Clarify use of the spring.cache.type property with Hazelcast #33245
• Example git.commit.time in the Actuator API documentation is thousands of years in the future #33237
• Links to Features describes sections that have moved elsewhere #33207
• Fix kafka streams auto start description typo in reference docs #33098
• OAuth 2 configuration example uses unrecognized value for authorization grant type #32931
• Fix typos in logging.adoc #32812
• Harmonize code sample in the "Type-safe Configuration Properties" section #32644
• Align Tomcat multiple connectors example with recommendation to configure SSL declaratively #28707
• Actuator document is misleading about k8s startup probe #28432
• ConditionalOnClass not working for Bean methods on Java 8 #27846

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.13 #33319
• Upgrade to Hibernate 5.6.14.Final #33157
• Upgrade to HttpClient5 5.1.4 #33320
• Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.1.5 #33158
• Upgrade to Janino 3.1.9 #33271
• Upgrade to Jaybird 4.0.7.java8 #33159
• Upgrade to MariaDB 2.7.7 #33160
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.8.12 #33122
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.85.Final #33161
• Upgrade to Postgresql 42.3.8 #33337
• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.25 #33123
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 2.4.8 #33222
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2021.1.10 #33125
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3.24 #33124
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 2.8.11 #33126
• Upgrade to Spring REST Docs 2.0.7.RELEASE #33127
• Upgrade to Spring Security 5.6.9 #33162
• Upgrade to Spring WS 3.1.4 #33163
• Upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.69 #33164

:heart: Contributors

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

@EricGao888, @dreis2211, @eurythmia, @hpoettker, @iamgd67, @jamessoun93, and @sdeleuze