Angular

• Angular 21 (#31458) - Updated to Angular v21 and dropped Jest support (Vitest is now official)
• Signals migration (#31727, #31718) - Converted more fields to signals
• Standalone components (#31623, #31695) - Removed SharedModule/CommonModule in favor of standalone components

Internal Improvements

• Dropped Java 17 support (#31903) - Java 21 is now the minimum required version
• Dropped Node 20 support (#31845) - Node 22+ with native TypeScript support is now required
• Node.js 24 (#31648) - Updated to Node.js 24.12.0
• Gradle 9.3.0 (#31981) - Updated to latest Gradle

📊 By the Numbers

• 1036 closed issues and pull requests since 9.0.0-beta.0
• Major Spring Boot 4 migration across all database types
• Significant Angular modernization with signals and standalone components

🔧 Key Technical Changes

Frontend

Angular:

• Updated to Angular 21 with official Vitest support (#31458)
• Dropped Jest support - Vitest is now the default testing framework
• Converted isLoading/isSaving and more fields to signals (#31718, #31727)
• Removed CommonModule and SharedModule in favor of standalone components (#31623, #31695)
• Rewrote all interceptors with new functional syntax (#31704, #31706, #31717, #31734)
• Added isolatedModules to tsconfig.json for better TypeScript compatibility (#31672)

Vue:

• Added explicit Vitest imports (#32015)
• Removed unused dependencies vue-tsc and vue-demi (#31764, #31761)
• Various Sonar code quality improvements

All Frontends:

• New client common generator shared across Angular, Vue, and React (#31649, #31650)
• Added e2e tests for UserManagement (#31840)
• Improved French translations (#32016, #32020)

Backend

Spring Boot 4 Migration:

• Updated to Spring Boot 4.0.2 (#32035)
• Migrated SQL databases to Spring Boot 4 (#31829)
• Migrated Neo4j to Spring Boot 4 (#31852)
• Migrated MongoDB to Spring Boot 4 (#31905)
• Migrated Cassandra to Spring Boot 4 (#31853)
• Migrated Elasticsearch to Spring Boot 4 (#31849)
• Migrated Hazelcast to Spring Boot 4 (#31851)

Testing Improvements:

• Switched test configurations to TestConfiguration (#31936)
• Migrated testcontainers to DynamicPropertySource for SQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Couchbase, and Kafka (#32013, #31988, #31917, #32078, #32055, #32082)

Other Backend Changes:

• Migrated to EnableWebSocketSecurity (#31539)
• Added JacksonHibernateConfiguration (#31817)
• Additional field type mapping for Elasticsearch (#31593)
• Fixed MariaDB container configuration path (#31639)

Build Tools:

• Updated to Gradle 9.3.0 (#31981)
• Updated to Maven 3.9.12 (#31720)
• Now relies on Maven plugin versions from spring-boot-dependencies (#31568)

Generator Architecture (Internal)

Modularization:

• Integrated spring-data generators into spring-boot (#32050)
• Added spring-boot:liquibase generator and cleaned up GraalVM support (#32062)
• Moved spring-cache into spring-boot generator (#31862)
• Moved spring-cloud-stream into spring-cloud generator (#31774)
• Moved feign-client to spring-cloud:feign-client (#31857)
• Moved kubernetes-helm and kubernetes-knative into kubernetes generator (#31805)

Java:

• Dropped Java 17 support - Java 21 is now required (#31903)
• Updated jhipster-framework to 8.12.0 (#31913)
• Added LIST to Java reserved keywords (#31828)

🧹 Cleanup & Modernization

• Dropped Node.js 20 and 23 support - now requires Node 22+ with native TypeScript support (#31867)
• Updated Node.js to 24.12.0 (#31648)
• Fixed many Sonar code smells and recommendations
• Improved code quality across frontend and backend

🔗 Migration Notes

This is a beta release - please test thoroughly before using in production.

Key breaking changes:

• Java 21+ now required (dropped Java 17 support)
• Node.js 22+ now required (dropped Node 20 support)
• Spring Boot 4 - major upgrade with various API changes
• Angular 21 - Jest support dropped, Vitest is now official

📝 Full Changelog

See the complete list of changes on GitHub:

• All closed issues and PRs (1036 items)

🙏 Contributors

Thanks to all contributors:

• @mshima - Spring Boot 4 migration and generator modularization
• @qmonmert - Code quality improvements, Angular updates, and Sonar fixes
• @henri-tremblay - MariaDB configuration fix
• @OmarHawk - Elasticsearch field type mapping
• @timothystone - Documentation improvements
• @DanielFran - README fixes
• @pietroBragaAquinoJunior - Documentation updates

Want to try it out?

npm install -g generator-jhipster@9.0.0-beta.1

Please report any issues you find on GitHub.