:warning: Noteworthy Changes

• Hibernate has been upgraded to 7.2.0.Final in response to Hibernate 7.1 moving to limited support
• spring-boot-starter-kotlin-serialization has been renamed to to spring-boot-starter-kotlinx-serialization-json and spring-boot-starter-kotlin-serialization-test has been renamed to spring-boot-starter-kotlinx-serialization-json-test. This change aligns the starters' names with those of their respective modules
• Using TestRestTemplate now requires a dependency on spring-boot-restclient

:lady_beetle: Bug Fixes

• JsonMixinModuleEntriesBeanRegistrationAotProcessor does not handle deprecated code #48564
• JdbcSessionAutoConfiguration may not match when using the auto-configured DataSource #48552
• @ServiceConnection for LgtmStackContainer fails when logging endpoint is configured due to multiple OtlpLoggingConnectionDetails beans #48536
• WebApplicationType does not consider modules when deduced from classpath #48517
• Spring Session auto-configuration fails in a war deployment as ServerProperties is not available #48493
• Opentelemetry logging export requires actuator module #48488
• RabbitHealthIndicator reports an error when version is missing from the connection's server properties #48487
• Actuator Info class has inconsistent nullability annotations and cannot be built with null value #48480
• Profiles retained during AOT processing are not configured in a native image #48476
• Security matchers and WebServerNamespace resolution can fail with NoClassDefFoundError when used in a traditional WAR deployment #48388
• HealthEndpointGroupMembershipValidator does not consider reactive health indicators causing NoSuchHealthContributorException to be thrown #48387
• spring.jackson.default-property-inclusion is not applied to content inclusion #48343
• TestRestTemplate.getRootUri() returns empty string #48330
• Redis health check reports an error when redis_version is missing from the INFO response #48328
• Parent's MeterRegistry beans are closed when child context closes #48325
• HttpMessageConverters picks up converter beans for both client and server #48310
• Conditions to auto-configure a RestClient are outdated with the modularization #48308
• A custom JwtTypeValidator that replaces the default can no longer be configured #48301
• PropertiesRestClientHttpServiceGroupConfigurer has highest precedence, preventing other configurers from being ordered ahead of it #48296
• SpringBootTest.UseMainMethod.WHEN_AVAILABLE and ALWAYS are incompatible with package-private or parameter-less main method #48275
• Conditions to auto-configure RestClient-based HTTP service clients are outdated with the modularization #48274
• Starter for Kotlinx Serialization Json is misnamed #48262
• ApplicationServletEnvironment is no longer configured in war deployments #48254
• RestClient.Builder bean present in @SpringBootTest due to spring-boot-starter-webmvc-test, but missing at runtime without restclient starter #48253
• ProblemDetail is rendered to XML incorrectly #48222

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Documentation

• Harmonize Kotlin example for HTTP Service client support #48577
• Document HttpMessageConverters detection changes in 4.0.1 #48574
• Improve javadoc for when to use class names rather than class references #48569
• Documentation has an outdated reference to the Jackson Kotlin Module #48534
• Caching documentation should clarify how to use a no-op implementation to run a test suite #48532
• Document that the default rolling policy for Log4j2 requires logging.file.path to be set #48527
• Review documentation and migration guide about changes in @AutoConfigureCache #48522
• License header in build samples is displayed in the reference documentation #48478

:hammer: Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to AspectJ 1.9.25.1 #48561
• Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 9.2.2 #48447
• Upgrade to Groovy 5.0.3 #48460
• Upgrade to Hibernate 7.2.0.Final #48518
• Upgrade to Jackson Bom 3.0.3 #48462
• Upgrade to Jetty 12.1.5 #48463
• Upgrade to jOOQ 3.19.29 #48464
• Upgrade to Json Path 2.10.0 #48553
• Upgrade to Log4j2 2.25.3 #48551

:heart: Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Nhahan, @arey, @banseok1216, @berry120, @candrews, @dmitrysulman, @geopark021, @hktechn0, @igslznev, @jwalter, @kzander91, @michaldo, @mzeijen, @ngocnhan-tran1996, @noojung, @scottfrederick, @vpavic, and @youngledo