Recently, when talking about testing Spring Boot applications at Spring IO and SpringOne Platform, I've mentioned Testcontainers and discussed the boilerplate involved in configuring your tests to use the service running inside the container. I'm delighted to say that, with the recent Spring Framework 5.2.5 release, that boilerplate is no more. Prior to the changes that we've just released, your integration test would look similar to the following: Here we are using @ContextConfiguration to specify an ApplicationContextInitializer. The initializer is configuring the spring.data.neo4j.uri…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the third milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes 89 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed. Highlights of this milestone include: Support for gracefully shutting down the embedded web server Support for customizing the layers when building a layered jar with Maven Support for R2DBC Auto-configuration for Spring Integration's RSocket support Numerous dependency upgrades For a complete list of changes and…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.13 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release includes 34 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Important Security Advisory This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Reactor Netty 0.8.16. It contains a fix for CVE-2020-5404. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.5 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release includes 62 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Important Security Advisory This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Reactor Netty 0.9.5. It contains fixes for CVE-2020-5403 and CVE-2020-5404. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.1.12 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release includes 39 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Important Security Advisory: This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Spring Framework 5.1.13 which contains a fix for CVE-2020-5398. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag…

On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.3 has been released and is now available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central. This release includes 75 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Important Security Advisory: This version of Spring Boot includes a dependency upgrade to Spring Framework 5.2.3 which contains fixes for CVE-2020-5398 and CVE-2020-5397. How can you help? If you're interested in helping out, check out the…

On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am delighted to announce that Spring Boot 2.2.0 has been released and is available now from repo.spring.io, Maven Central and Bintray. This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes. What's new in 2.2 Dependency upgrades Spring Boot 2.2 moves to new versions of several Spring projects: Spring AMQP 2.2 Spring Batch 4.2 Spring Data Moore Spring Framework 5.2 Spring HATEOAS 1.0 Spring Integration 5.2 Spring…

On behalf of the community and everyone who has contributed, it's my pleasure to announce that Spring REST Docs 2.0.4.RELEASE is available from Maven Central, JCenter, and our release repository. Thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by reporting bugs and opening pull requests. This maintenance release includes a small number of fixes and documentation improvements. It is a recommend upgrade for all Spring REST Docs 2.x users. GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Twitter | Gitter | Stack Overflow

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the sixth milestone of Spring Boot 2.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release contains over 140 issues and pull requests. For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.2 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation. Our next 2.2 release will be RC1 later this month with GA to follow in mid-October. If you haven't already done so, now is a great time to try a 2.2 milestone and provide us with your feedback. If you…

On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the fourth milestone of Spring Boot 2.2 has been released and is available from our milestone repository. This release closes over 170 issues and pull requests. For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.2 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation. If you want to get started with 2.2 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io. Project Page | GitHub | Issues | Documentation | Stack Overflow | Gitter