On behalf of the team and everyone that contributed, I am pleased to announce that the second milestone of Spring Boot 2.3 has been released and is available from our milestone repository.

This release closes 120 issues and pull requests. Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

Highlights of this milestone include:

• Improvement of our Docker image support
• Upgrade to MongoDB 4 (still in beta)
• Support of wildcard locations for configuration files
• Numerous dependency upgrades

For a complete list of changes and upgrade instructions, please see the Spring Boot 2.3 Release Notes on the wiki and the updated reference documentation.

If you want to get started with 2.3 and try out the new features, you can bootstrap a new project on https://start.spring.io.

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