:star: New Features

• Provide dependency management for Testcontainers #34712
• Configure support for GraphQL pagination and sorting #34677
• Reduce the boilerplate that's required in tests that use a service in a Testcontainers-managed container #34658
• Allow auto-configuration to consume service connection information from sources other than configuration properties #34657
• Add SanitizableData withSanitizedValue #34615
• Configure exception resolver for @GraphQlExceptionHandler methods #34526
• Switch from single topic for fixed delays to single topic for same intervals in Spring Kafka retry configuration. #34504
• Remove final from ProblemDetailsExceptionHandler classes to allow proxying #34503
• Rename version property for Git Commit ID Maven plugin from git-commit-id-plugin.version to git-commit-id-maven-plugin.version #34397
• Add build-info skip support #34393
• Add support for CNB platform API 0.11 #34383
• Configure maven.compiler.release in spring-boot-starter-parent to prevent impossible JDK API usage #34365
• Revert support for allowing JoranConfigurators to be passed ahead of time to Logback #34361
• Add management.wavefront.application.custom-tags property #34223
• Add RabbitTemplateCustomizer to allow customization of RabbitTemplates #34050
• Add Spring Authorization Server support #34003

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Use of @EntityScan causes AOT instance supplier code generation error #34731
• EmbeddedWebServerFactoryCustomizerAutoConfiguration should not run when embedded web server is not configured #34660
• StandardConfigDataResource can import the same file twice if the classpath includes '.' #34618
• @ConfigurationProperties no longer works on a mutable Kotlin data classes #34611
• Loading application.yml fails with NoSuchMethodError when using SnakeYAML 2.0 #34516
• Image builds with podman fail when image buildpacks are configured #34496
• Maven plugin uses timezone-local timestamps when outputTimestamp is used #34431
• Spring Boot 3 does not provide a configuration property for configuring red metrics custom tag keys #34425
• org.springframework.boot.web.embedded.jetty.GracefulShutdown uses the wrong class to create its logger #34420
• @ConfigurationProperties with initialized nested record properties values no longer bind #34411
• Custom ConfigDataLocationResolver/ConfigDataLoader fails in 3.0.x when combined with spring-boot-devtools #34375
• defaultTracingObservationHandler is not ordered as documented #34370

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Document support for Java 20 #34727
• Typo in Batch documentation: content instead of context #34707
• Clarify conventions for custom error pages in WebFlux #34706
• Fix Javadoc in JobLauncherApplicationRunner #34604
• Update two references to old APIs #34603
• Document how to get socket location for image building configuration with podman #34476
• Document support for Gradle 8 #34463
• Update Batch documentation #34456
• Add link to Failover starter #34423
• Fix typo in OpenTelemetry section #34416
• Fix typo in Encrypting Properties #34415
• Use plugins DSL consistently in Spring Boot Gradle Plugin docs #34392

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.14.2 #34679
• Upgrade to Caffeine 3.1.5 #34571
• Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.4.4 #34680
• Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.18 #34681
• Upgrade to Flyway 9.15.2 #34573
• Upgrade to GraphQL Java 20.1 #34715
• Upgrade to Groovy 4.0.10 #34683
• Upgrade to Infinispan 14.0.7.Final #34684
• Upgrade to Jedis 4.3.2 #34700
• Upgrade to Jetty 11.0.14 #34575
• Upgrade to Jetty Reactive HTTPClient 3.0.8 #34574
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.18.1 #34701
• Upgrade to Json-smart 2.4.10 #34685
• Upgrade to Liquibase 4.20.0 #34578
• Upgrade to Logback 1.4.6 #34686
• Upgrade to MariaDB 3.1.3 #34716
• Upgrade to Maven Compiler Plugin 3.11.0 #34579
• Upgrade to Maven Help Plugin 3.4.0 #34687
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.11.0-M2 #34546
• Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.1.0-M2 #34547
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.90.Final #34688
• Upgrade to OpenTelemetry 1.24.0 #34581
• Upgrade to Oracle R2DBC 1.1.1 #34723
• Upgrade to Postgresql 42.6.0 #34689
• Upgrade to Rabbit AMQP Client 5.17.0 #34702
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2022.0.5 #34553
• Upgrade to Selenium HtmlUnit 4.8.1.1 #34690
• Upgrade to SLF4J 2.0.7 #34691
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 3.0.3 #34610
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2023.0.0-M3 #34548
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 6.0.7 #34554
• Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 1.2.0-M1 #34550
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 2.1.0-M1 #34703
• Upgrade to Spring Integration 6.1.0-M2 #34552
• Upgrade to Spring Kafka 3.0.5 #34555
• Upgrade to Spring Retry 2.0.1 #34556
• Upgrade to Spring Security 6.1.0-M2 #34549
• Upgrade to Spring Session 3.1.0-M1 #34551
• Upgrade to SQLite JDBC 3.41.2.0 #34725
• Upgrade to Tomcat 10.1.7 #34582
• Upgrade to UnboundID LDAPSDK 6.0.8 #34583

:heart: Contributors

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

@1993heqiang, @Abhijeetmishr, @RohanGoyal17, @anandmnair, @bclozel, @beatfreaker, @benelog, @dalbani, @dangzhicairang, @didiez, @dsyer, @fmbenhassine, @izeye, @jongwooo, @mtheiss, @sjohnr, @swapy, @terminux, @ttddyy, and @vy