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Request: 8.0.x patch release with updated dependencies (Spring Boot 4.0.6, Tomcat, Jackson, Netty) #4304

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Flowable 8.0.0 (27 Feb 2026) is the latest release. A Trivy scan of wars/flowable-rest.war from the 8.0.0 distribution reports 69 high and critical findings in bundled libraries. Every one has a fixed version on the same major line:

Library In 8.0.0 Fixed in
Spring Boot 4.0.2 4.0.6
Spring Framework 7.0.3 7.0.9
Spring Security 7.0.2 7.0.5
Tomcat embed 11.0.15 11.0.22
Jackson 2 2.20.2 2.21.7
Jackson 3 (tools.jackson) 3.0.4 3.1.7 (see #4300)
Netty 4.2.9.Final 4.2.17.Final
Kafka clients 4.1.1 4.1.2
RabbitMQ amqp-client 5.27.1 5.34.0
Micrometer 1.16.2 1.16.6
HttpCore 5 5.3.6 5.4.3
lz4-java 1.8.0 1.8.1

We can see dependency updates on main (for example "Bump dependency versions" in May), but they aren't in a release yet. Could you publish an 8.0.1 with the updated dependencies, or say when the next release is planned? Users who ship the REST application unmodified currently have to choose between patching jars themselves and accepting the findings.

Related: #4300, and the open deserialization reports #4289 to #4293.

We can help test a release candidate against our integration's contract tests.

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  1. tijsrademakers commented on Oct 9, 2026

    @tijsrademakers
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    The next version will be 8.1.0 and this will be using Spring Boot 4.1.x with updated dependency versions

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