The latest version of Spring Boot 2.6 available now !!

Overview

In this article, we begin exploring what change in Spring Boot latest version

What's new in Spring Boot 2.6.0

1. For servlet applications, SameSite attributes on session cookies are supported.
2. On the main or management port, there is ability for configuring health groups.
3. Added Java Runtime information to the /info endpoint.
4. WebTestClient support for testing Spring MVC and for WebFlux apps.
5. Redis Connection Pooling : Once commons-pool2 is on the classpath, Redis for Jedis and Lettuce would then automatically enable pooling.
6. Spring-rabbit-stream module added for auto-configuration of Spring AMQP's.
7. Pluggable rules for sanitising properties in /env and configprops are now supported.

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Dependency Upgrades

• Spring Data 2021.1
• Spring HATEOAS 1.4
• Spring AMQP 2.4
• Spring Kafka 2.8
• Spring Security 5.6
• Spring Session 2021.1

Third Part Dependencies upgraded

• Apache Kafka 3.0

• Artemis 2.19

• Cassandra Driver 4.13

• Commons DBCP 2.9

• Commons Pool 2.11

• Couchbase Client 3.2.2

• Elasticsearch 7.15

• Flyway 8.0.5

• Hibernate 5.6

• JUnit Jupiter 5.8

• Jedis 3.7

• Kafka 3.0

• Kotlin 1.6

• Liquibase 4.5

• Micrometer 1.8

• Mockito 4.0

• MongoDB 4.4

• Postgresql 42.3

• QueryDSL 5.0

• SnakeYAML 1.29

• Thymeleaf Layout Dialect 3.0

Spring Boot 2.6.0 Deprecations

1. AbstractDataSourceInitializer has been decommissioned in favour of DataSourceScriptDatabaseInitializer. Subclasses of AbstractDataSourceInitializer have also been phased out in favour of new DataSourceScriptDatabaseInitializer based alternatives.
2. CamelCaseToUnderscoresNamingStrategy in Hibernate 5.5 has taken the place of SpringPhysicalNamingStrategy.
3. In favour of new RunnerConfiguration based alternatives, three methods on AbstractApplicationContextRunner have been deprecated.
4. SpringApplicationRunListener's begun and running methods have been replaced with versions that accept a Duration.
5. ApplicationStartedEvent and ApplicationReadyEvent constructors have been replaced with versions that accept a Duration parameter.
6. The EnvironmentEndpoint.sanitize method has been deprecated and is being phased out.