:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• ScheduledBeanLazyInitializationExcludeFilter is auto-configured even when annotation-based scheduled has not been enabled #33283
• SpringBootContextLoader prints banner twice when using a @ContextHierarchy #33262
• 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 #33249
• Configuration property binding does not deal with bridge methods #33211
• Configuring management.server.port via a config tree results in a ConverterNotFoundException when the management context is refreshed #33168
• Dependency management for XMLUnit is incomplete #32999
• Spring Boot's Lettuce metrics enable histrograms by default and it's hard to switch them off #32989
• Dependency management for Selenium is incomplete #32861
• NumberFormatException when configuring spring.redis.sentinel.nodes with an IPv6 address #32836

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Align Tomcat multiple connectors example with recommendation to configure SSL declaratively #33331
• ConditionalOnClass not working for Bean methods on Java 8 #33328
• Actuator document is misleading about k8s startup probe #33326
• Link to Micrometer's @Timed documentation #33265
• Clarify use of the spring.cache.type property with Hazelcast #33257
• Example git.commit.time in the Actuator API documentation is thousands of years in the future #33255
• Links to Features describes sections that have moved elsewhere #33213
• Fix kafka streams auto start description typo in reference docs #33101
• OAuth 2 configuration example uses unrecognized value for authorization grant type #33068
• Fix typos in logging.adoc #32820
• Harmonize code sample in the "Type-safe Configuration Properties" section #32818

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.12.19 #33272
• Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.13 #33321
• Upgrade to Ehcache3 3.10.8 #33322
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7.17.7 #33171
• Upgrade to Hazelcast 5.1.5 #33172
• Upgrade to Hibernate 5.6.14.Final #33173
• Upgrade to HttpClient5 5.1.4 #33323
• Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.1.5 #33174
• Upgrade to Janino 3.1.9 #33274
• Upgrade to Jaybird 4.0.7.java8 #33175
• Upgrade to MariaDB 3.0.9 #33176
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.9.6 #33129
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.85.Final #33177
• Upgrade to Postgresql 42.3.8 #33338
• Upgrade to Reactor 2020.0.25 #33130
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 2.4.8 #33223
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2021.2.6 #33132
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3.24 #33131
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.0.3 #33150
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 2.8.11 #33133
• Upgrade to Spring REST Docs 2.0.7.RELEASE #33134
• Upgrade to Spring Security 5.7.5 #33178
• Upgrade to Spring WS 3.1.4 #33179
• Upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.69 #33180

:heart: Contributors

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

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