On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.0-M3 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

Highlights of this release include:

• The PathPattern based path matching strategy is now used by default for Spring MVC applications.
• Elasticsearch properties for the different client implementations have have been consolidation and rationalized.
• Sanitization rules are now pluggable and can be based on the backing PropertySource.
• Spring Integration PollerMetadata properties are now provided.

For more details please take a look at the release notes wiki page and the changelog. Spring Boot 2.6.0-RC1 will be released October 21st with the GA due on November 18th.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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