Spring Boot - v2.7.9

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• Maven Plugin's PropertiesMergingResourceTransformer closes InputStream when it should not do so #34063
• Actuator Health web endpoint broken with Gson and Java 17 #34030
• Dependency management for Mongo's Java Driver is incomplete #33941
• Using devtools with Reactive application results in slower restarts #33855
• Spies are not reset after test execution when using @SpyBean #33830
• Properties Migrator does not detect properties of Map type that are marked as deprecated #27854

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Updated documentation for @ConfigurationProperties bean naming rules #34029
• Restore "Use Jedis Instead of Lettuce" how-to documentation #33994
• Add Redis application properties example #33965
• Use Maven Central for release downloads in CLI installation documentation #33962
• Actuator section is missing from documentation overview #33932
• Add Javadoc since to OperationParameter.getAnnotation() #33914
• Document additional configuration that is required for spring.mvc.throw-exception-if-no-handler-found=true to be effective #31660

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to ActiveMQ 5.16.6 #34238
• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.12.23 #34239
• Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.16 #34240
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch 7.17.9 #34241
• Upgrade to Glassfish JAXB 2.3.8 #34242
• Upgrade to Groovy 3.0.15 #34243
• Upgrade to Hibernate 5.6.15.Final #34244
• Upgrade to Jackson Bom 2.13.5 #34245
• Upgrade to Jaybird 4.0.9.java8 #34246
• Upgrade to Lombok 1.18.26 #34247
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.9.8 #34141
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.89.Final #34248
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2020.0.28 #34142
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 2.4.10 #34321
• Upgrade to Spring Batch 4.3.8 #34143
• Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2021.2.8 #34144
• Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 1.5.3 #34249
• Upgrade to Spring Security 5.7.7 #34145
• Upgrade to spring-javaformat 0.0.38 #34329
• Upgrade to Undertow 2.2.23.Final #34250

:heart: Contributors

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

@Anubhav-2000, @enimiste, @izeye, @jprinet, @marcel-wollschlaeger, @mhalbritter, @michaldo, and @sannanansari