🎀 Spring Boot 2.7.0 Released

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Spring Boot 2.7.0 has just been released :

Spring Boot 2.7.0 Released with Support for GraphQL, Podman and Cache2k - InfoQ

VMware has released Spring Boot 2.7.0, the latest and final branch of the 2.x series. This latest version of Spring Boot includes support for Spring for GraphQL 1.0; support for the Podman container engine; dependency management and auto-configuration for Cache2k; and new test annotations for ElasticSearch and CouchBase.

infoq.com

👉 Let's summarize what it brings and what's the next step.

🛍️ What it brings

• Support for GraphQL 1.0
• Support for the Podman container engine as an alternative to Docker Engine
• Dependency management and auto-configuration for Cache2k

🧰 Testing related features

Hot news around testing as new test annotations are coming for :

• ElasticSearch
• Couchbase

📖 /actuator/info related features

JavaInfoContributor and OsInfoContributor classes have been improved and can now expose more information about :

• Java version & vendor
• Underlying OS

⬆️ Dependencies updates

• Spring Data 2021.2
• Spring Security 5.7
• Infinispan 13
• Micrometer 1.9
• Elasticsearch 7.17
• H2 2.1
• Flyway 8.5

🛤️ Head to Spring Boot 3.0

Based on Spring Framework 6.0, Spring Boot 3.0 will be the next major revision and will require Java 17 or above.

☝️ Spring Boot 3.0, planned for November 2022, will be the next version.

Spring Boot 3.0 will also support AOT (ahead-of-time) compilation and native executables thanks to Spring Native.

Comments

[adriens]

One more step nearer to 3.x :

Andy Wilkinson

@ankinson

Spring Boot 2.7.2 has been released: spring.io/blog/2022/07/2…

10:14 AM - 21 Jul 2022

[adriens]

Stéphane Nicoll

@snicoll

It's release day on the @springframework team. Spring Framework 6.0.0-M5 and 5.3.22 have been released. Thanks to everyone who has contributed.

spring.io/blog/2022/07/1…

09:40 AM - 14 Jul 2022

[adriens]

Sébastien Deleuze

@sdeleuze

Spring Native 0.12.1 has been released, it leverages @SpringBoot 2.7.1 and Native Build Tools 0.9.13. In the meantime, we are doing great progresses on Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3 native support. See you hopefully at @SpringOne for more details! spring.io/blog/2022/07/1…

19:11 PM - 13 Jul 2022

[adriens]

Andy Wilkinson

@ankinson

It's a day of maintenance releases today on the @springboot team. First up is 2.6.9 which is now available. Thanks to everyone who has contributed.

spring.io/blog/2022/06/2…

11:10 AM - 23 Jun 2022

[adriens]

Andy Wilkinson

@ankinson

We've released @springboot 2.7.1 now as well

spring.io/blog/2022/06/2…

Next month we'll release 3.0.0-M4 as well as… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

12:59 PM - 23 Jun 2022

Andy Wilkinson @ankinson

[adriens]

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[adriens]

Stéphane Nicoll

@snicoll

Releases follow-up: a bit quieter this time on the releases front. @SpringBoot 2.7.3 and 2.6.11 scheduled for August 18.

The team is busy on the next milestones for Spring Framework 6 and Spring Boot 3 in September.

07:56 AM - 25 Jul 2022

[adriens]

Adrien SALES

@rastadidi

📢 @springboot 2.7.0 has just been released 🚀
👀 what it brings 👇
🦾 Let @dependabot PRs rain on your @github repos 😎
dev.to/optnc/spring-b…
@Podman_io @elastic @couchbase @graalvm #java #spring #OpenSource #Javaprogramming

20:57 PM - 21 Jun 2022