:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Fix typo in LocalDevToolsAutoConfiguration logging #33615
• No warning is given when <springProfile> is used in a Logback <root> block #33610
• Auto-configure PropagationWebGraphQlInterceptor for tracing propagation #33542
• WebClient instrumentation fails with IllegalArgumentException when adapting to WebClientExchangeTagsProvider #33483
• Reactive observation auto-configuration does not declare order for WebFilter #33444
• Web server fails to start due to "Resource location must not be null" when attempting to use a PKCS 11 KeyStore #33433
• Actuator health endpoint for neo4j throws NoSuchElementException and always returns Status.DOWN #33428
• Anchors in YAML configuration files throw UnsupportedOperationException #33404
• ZipkinRestTemplateSender is not customizable #33399
• AOT doesn't work with Logstash Logback Encoder #33387
• Maven process-aot goal fails when release version is set in Maven compiler plugin #33382
• DependsOnDatabaseInitializationPostProcessor re-declares bean dependencies at native image runtime #33374
• @SpringBootTest now throws a NullPointerException rather than a helpful IllegalStateException when @SpringBootConfiguration is not found #33371
• bootBuildImage always trys to create a native image due to bootJar always adding a META-INF/native-image/argfile to the jar #33363

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Improve gradle plugin tags documentation #33617
• Improve maven plugin tags documentation #33616
• Fix typo in tomcat accesslog checkExists doc #33512
• Documented Java compiler level is wrong #33505
• Fix typo in documentation #33453
• Update instead of replace environment in bootBuildImage documentation #33424
• Update the reference docs to document the need to declare the native-maven-plugin when using buildpacks to create a native image #33422
• Document that the shutdown endpoint is not intended for use when deploying a war to a servlet container #33410
• Reinstate GraphQL testing documentaion #33407
• Description of NEVER in Sanitize Sensitive Values isn't formatted correctly #33398

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.19 #33586
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.12.20 #33587
• Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.4.1 #33588
• Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.14 #33589
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 8.5.3 #33590
• Upgrade to Hibernate 6.1.6.Final #33591
• Upgrade to HttpClient 4.5.14 #33592
• Upgrade to HttpCore 4.4.16 #33593
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.4.Final #33594
• Upgrade to Jaybird 4.0.8.java11 #33595
• Upgrade to Jetty 11.0.13 #33596
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.17.6 #33597
• Upgrade to Kotlin 1.7.22 #33598
• Upgrade to Lettuce 6.2.2.RELEASE #33599
• Upgrade to MongoDB 4.8.1 #33600
• Upgrade to MSSQL JDBC 11.2.2.jre17 #33601
• Upgrade to Native Build Tools Plugin 0.9.19 #33602
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.86.Final #33603
• Upgrade to Reactor 2022.0.1 #33475
• Upgrade to SLF4J 2.0.6 #33604
• Upgrade to Spring for GraphQL 1.1.1 #33477
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.3 #33476
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.0.1 #33605
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.0.1 #33480
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.0.1 #33479
• Upgrade to Thymeleaf 3.1.1.RELEASE #33486
• Upgrade to Thymeleaf Extras SpringSecurity 3.1.1.RELEASE #33606
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.4 #33167
• Upgrade to UnboundID LDAPSDK 6.0.7 #33607
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.3.2.Final #33608

:heart: Contributors

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

@Artur-, @aksh1618, @candrews, @cdanger, @currenjin, @izeye, @jprinet, @lishangbu, @ohdaeho, @peter-janssen, and @shekharAggarwal