Spring Boot 2.2 Release Notes

Upgrading from Spring Boot 2.1

Deprecations from Spring Boot 2.1

Classes, methods and properties that were deprecated in Spring Boot 2.1 have been removed in this release. Please ensure that you aren’t calling deprecated methods before upgrading.

Spring Framework 5.2

This release upgrades to Spring Framework 5.2. Please refer to Spring Framework’s upgrade documentation for further details.

JMX now disabled by default

As of #16090, JMX is not enabled by default anymore. This feature can be enabled with the configuration property spring.jmx.enabled=true. If you’re using IDE features to administer your applications, you may want to enable that flag there as well.

Fork enabled by default in Maven Plugin

Spring Boot applications that are ran by the Maven plugin are now forked by default. If you were customizing properties using -D, these are no longer passed to the Spring Boot application. Such properties can be specified using -Dspring-boot.run.jvmArguments and dedicated options exist, such as for enabling a profile. Refer to the reference documentation for more details.

Jakarta EE dependencies

Where possible, we have moved from Java EE dependencies with a javax. group ID to the equivalent Jakarta EE dependencies with a jakarta. group ID in Spring Boot’s starters. Dependency management for the Jakarta EE API dependencies has been added alongside the existing dependency management for the Java EE API dependencies. The dependency management for the Java EE API dependencies will be removed in the future and all users are encouraged to move to the Jakarta EE API dependencies.

As part of the Java EE to Jakarta EE migration, two dependencies have changed artifact ID in their latest maintenance releases. com.sun.mail:javax.mail is now com.sun.mail:jakarta.mail and org.glassfish:javax.el is now org.glassfish:jakarta.el. In the unlikely event that you were using either of these dependencies directly, please update your pom.xml or build.gradle accordingly.

JUnit 5

spring-boot-starter-test now provides JUnit 5 by default. JUnit 5’s vintage engine is included by default to support existing JUnit 4-based test classes so that you can migrate to JUnit 5 when you are ready to do so. It is also possible to use a mixture of JUnit 4- and JUnit 5-based test classes in the same module. This allows you to migrate to JUnit 5 gradually if you wish.

Note that the Maven Surefire plugin for JUnit 4 does not support the listener property. If you have a Maven configuration similar to the following:

<configuration>
	<properties>
		<property>
			<name>listener</name>
			<value>com.example.CustomRunListener</value>
		</property>
	</properties>
</configuration>

You can’t use the junit-vintage-engine and you’ll need to explicitly roll back to JUnit 4:

<dependencies>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
		<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
		<scope>test</scope>
		<exclusions>
			<exclusion>
				<groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
				<artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
			</exclusion>
			<exclusion>
				<groupId>org.junit.vintage</groupId>
				<artifactId>junit-vintage-engine</artifactId>
			</exclusion>
			<exclusion>
				<groupId>org.mockito</groupId>
				<artifactId>mockito-junit-jupiter</artifactId>
			</exclusion>
		</exclusions>
	</dependency>
	<dependency>
		<groupId>junit</groupId>
		<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
		<version>4.12</version>
	</dependency>
</dependencies>

AssertJ 3.12

This release upgrades to AssertJ 3.12 that contains a breaking API change for assertions related to Iterator. Please see the AssertJ release notes for details.

Devtools configuration no longer considered in integration tests

Devtools configuration specified in your home directory is no longer considered in integration tests.

Spring HATEOAS 1.0

This release upgrades to Spring HATEOAS 1.0 which contains some breaking API changes. Please see the blog post that announced the M1 release for details and a script that can be used to ease the migration.

DataSize migration for logging.file size-based properties

logging.file.max-size and logging.file.total-size-cap are now using the standard DataSize type in replacement of the proprietary FileSize type. If you are using any of those properties, make sure to align to the standard format.

DataSource health

The DataSource health indicator contains an extra validationQuery attribute with the validation query that was used against the DataSource. Also, the result of the query that used to be provided by the hello attribute has been renamed to result.

Elasticsearch

This release upgrades to Elasticsearch 6.7 which contains some breaking API changes. Please see the 6.5, 6.6 and 6.7 breaking changes pages for details.

Both the Elasticsearch transport and Jest clients have been deprecated in favor of other options, such as RestHighLevelClient. The reference docs on Elasticsearch support have been updated.

Hibernate Dialect

Spring Boot now lets Hibernate chose the dialect to use rather than applying a default dialect based on the detected database. If you are interested by this feature, please make sure you don’t specify the database platform explicitly (i.e. via spring.jpa.database or spring.jpa.database-platform).

If you had a dialect configured previously, you may want to remove your customization.

Actuator HTTP Trace and Auditing are disabled by default

The Actuator HTTP Trace and Auditing features are not enabled by default anymore, since the default repositories implementations are in-memory and may consume too many resources and are not cluster friendly For robust, production-grade HTTP tracing we recommend the use of Spring Cloud Sleuth or similar.

To enable HTTP tracing, contribute a bean implementing HttpTraceRepository or AuditEventRepository to turn those features back on. Configuration properties are available to turn those features off even in the presence of those beans (see management.auditevents.enabled and management.trace.http.enabled)

Gradle requirements

The minimum requirements for Gradle have changed - Spring Boot now requires Gradle 4.10+. Please upgrade accordingly.

Jetty logging configuration

server.jetty.accesslog.* configuration properties related to log formatting are no longer available (the ones related to log files are still there).

If your application is making use of those properties, two new keys have been introduced, format and custom-format; format allows you to choose amongst existing formats, custom-format allows you to use your own format:

server.jetty.accesslog.format=NCSA # enum with predefined formats: NCSA, EXTENDED_NCSA
server.jetty.accesslog.custom-format= # String, custom format overriding the former if defined

Unsupported options now translate to defining a custom log format and using options as defined in Jetty’s CustomRequestLog.

Hamcrest 2.1

This release upgrades to Hamcrest 2.1. This should be a drop-in replacement for most users. If you have a direct dependency on org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core or org.hamcrest:hamcrest-library, please use the new combined module, org.hamcrest:hamcrest, instead. If you depend on Hamcrest via spring-boot-starter-test no action is required.

Freemarker templates configuration

This release changes the default template file extension for Freemarker templates. This aligns Spring Boot with safe configuration defaults for web applications. Please rename existing templates from *.ftl to *.ftlh when upgrading.

Tomcat’s MBean Registry

Tomcat’s MBean Registry is now disabled by default, saving approximately 2MB of heap. If you want to use Tomcat’s MBeans, for example so that they can be used to expose metrics via Micrometer, set the server.tomcat.mbeanregistry.enabled to true.

Logback max history

The <rollingPolicy> in the default Logback configuration has been updated to use a <maxHistory> of 7 days. It can be tuned using the logging.file.max-history configuration property.

`HttpHiddenMethodFilter` disabled by default

The filter that handles the _method request parameter is now disabled by default as it causes early consumption of a request body if the body may contain parameters. This can be restored by setting either spring.webflux.hiddenmethod.filter.enabled or spring.mvc.hiddenmethod.filter.enabled to true.

Health Indicator

A number of classes have been deprecated to implement the new health indicator groups feature. If you are configuring a custom HealthIndicator via CompositeHealthIndicatorConfiguration, you’ll need to update it to use CompositeHealthContributorConfiguration instead.

Micrometer 'New Relic' eventType

Micrometer 1.3 has changed the eventType that gets published with each metric to be a fixed value. This aligns with New Relic best practices.

Spring Boot 2.2 will use the value of management.metrics.export.newrelic.event-type as the eventType and add "metricName" and "metricType" attributes for context. If you don’t explicitly set an event type property then SpringBootSample is used.

If you prefer to use the previous behavor where the meter name was used as the eventType, you can set the management.metrics.export.newrelic.meter-name-event-type-enabled property to true.

Health Endpoint JSON

The /actuator/health endpoint has changed the resulting JSON format by renaming details to components for the first-level elements. This helps to differentiate the actual details returned by a HealthIndicator from the component indicators that make up composite health.

As a result of the change, the actuator media type has been bumped from application/vnd.spring-boot.actuator.v2+json to application/vnd.spring-boot.actuator.v3+json. If you have tools that need to consume the older format, you can use an HTTP Accept: header with the V2 media type, application/vnd.spring-boot.actuator.v2+json.

DevTools config directory

The preferred location for global DevTools settings is now ~/.config/spring-boot. Any of the following files can be used:

spring-boot-devtools.properties
spring-boot-devtools.yaml
spring-boot-devtools.yml

Please see the relevant section of the reference documentation for further details.

InMemoryUserDetailsManager

In order to prevent generation and logging of a default password for a Resource Server application, a bean of type InMemoryUserDetailsManager is no longer created in the presence of a JwtDecoder bean or a OpaqueTokenIntrospector bean. If you wish to customize your security configuration such that it requires an InMemoryUserDetailsManager, you would need to create the bean yourself.

Sample projects renamed and relocated

The sample projects have been renamed to smoke tests to better reflect their intended purpose. They have also been relocated in the source repository and can now be found here.

jOOQ RecordListenerProvider

If your application has multiple RecordListenerProvider`s, each should now be defined as an individual bean rather than defining a single `RecordListenerProvider[] bean.

New and Noteworthy

Tip	Check the configuration changelog for a complete overview of the changes in configuration.

Java 13 support

Spring Boot 2.2 adds support for Java 13. Java 8 and 11 are also supported.

Performance improvements

Startup time and memory usage have been reduced by making use of proxyBeanMethods=false in Spring Boot’s @Configuration classes. proxyBeanMethods is a new attribute on @Configuration introduced in Spring Framework 5.2 M1. proxyBeanMethods is also available as an attribute on @SpringBootApplication and @SpringBootConfiguration.

When launching an application at development time with bootRun in Gradle or spring-boot:run in Maven, the JVM will be configured with flags (-Xverify:none and -XX:TieredStopAtLevel=1) to optimise it for reduced launch time. When running on JDK 13 -Xverify:none is not specified as it has been deprecated.

Several other performance improvements have also been made in this release:

Time taken to bind large numbers of configuration properties has been significantly reduced
As Spring Boot fully prepares a PersistenceUnit by scanning JPA entities, Hibernate’s own entity scanning has been disabled as it is redundant
Injection points in auto-configurations have been refined to only apply when a bean has to be created
Beans related to Actuator endpoints are now only created if the endpoint is both enabled and exposed (via JMX or HTTP)
Conditions on codec auto-configuration have been improved so that the codecs are no longer configured when they won’t be used
Tomcat’s MBean Registry has been disabled by default, reducing Tomcat’s memory footprint by approximately 2MB

Lazy initialization

It is now possible to enable global lazy initialization to reduce startup time via the spring.main.lazy-initialization property. Please note that using that feature comes at a cost:

Handling of HTTP requests may take longer while any deferred initialisation occurs
Failures that would normally occur at startup will now not occur until later

Individual beans can opt out of lazy initialization by annotating their definition with @Lazy(false). Where it is not possible to use @Lazy(false) to opt out of lazy initialization, a LazyInitializationExcludeFilter bean can be used instead. For example, to never set IntegrationFlow beans to lazy, you can use the following code:

@Bean
static LazyInitializationExcludeFilter integrationLazyInitExcludeFilter() {
    return LazyInitializationExcludeFilter.forBeanTypes(IntegrationFlow.class);
}

Spring Data Moore

Spring Boot 2.2 ships with Spring Data Moore. Please see the What’s new in Spring Data Moore blog post to learn more.

Shutdown configuration of task execution and scheduling

The behaviour on shutdown for both the auto-configured TaskExecutor and TaskScheduler is now configurable, see the spring.task.execution.shutdown and spring.task.scheduling.shutdown namespaces for more details.

Kubernetes detection

ConditionalOnCloudPlatform now detects if the application is running on Kubernetes.

Test Application Arguments in integration tests

SpringBootTest allows to specify application arguments that will trigger the creation of an ApplicationArguments bean.

`@ConfigurationProperties` scanning

Classes annotated with @ConfigurationProperties can now be found via classpath scanning as an alternative to using @EnableConfigurationProperties or @Component. Add @ConfigurationPropertiesScan to your application to enable scanning.

Note	Configuration properties scanning was enabled by default in Spring Boot 2.2.0 but as of Spring Boot 2.2.1 you must opt-in using `@ConfigurationPropertiesScan`.

Immutable `@ConfigurationProperties` binding

Configuration properties now support constructor-based binding, which allows a @ConfigurationProperties-annotated class to be immutable. Constructor-based binding can be enabled by annotating a @ConfigurationProperties class or one of its constructors with @ConstructorBinding. Annotations such as @DefaultValue and @DateTimeFormat can now be used on constructor parameters that are provided by configuration property binding. Please see the relevant section of the reference documentation for further details.

RSocket Support

A new Spring Boot starter has been added in this release, spring-boot-starter-rsocket. This starter brings the required dependencies for building an application that uses RSocket support. RSocket strategies are auto-configured to provide the required infrastructure for encoding and decoding RSocket payloads using CBOR and JSON. An RSocketRequester.Builder is auto-configured to allow you to create an RSocketRequester to send requests to remote RSocket services. For more on that, check out the relevant section if the reference documentation.

Auto-configuration for Spring Security’s RSocket integration is now available when its spring-security-rsocket module is on the classpath. The auto-configuration will enable RSocket security and configure the server RSocket factory with Spring Security’s interceptor.

When testing an RSocket server application, the local.rsocket.server.port property is set to the port that the RSocket server is listening on. It can be injected into test classes using @LocalRSocketServerPort.

ApplicationContextRunner simple bean registration

The ApplicationContextRunner test utility now allows to register bean inline, see withBean for more details.

`RestTemplateBuilder` request customisation

Methods have been added to RestTemplateBuilder to add default headers to all requests and to enable general request customization.

Reactive Elasticsearch Auto-configuration

Auto-configuration has been added for the reactive Elasticsearch components introduced in Spring Data Moore. A ReactiveElasticSearchTemplate is auto-configured with the spring.data.elasticsearch.client.reactive.* properties. Auto-configured support for reactive Elasticsearch repositories is also provided.

Plain text support for Thread dump endpoint

The threaddump actuator endpoint can now return a thread dump in plain text that is compatible with both Thread Dump Analyzer and https://fastthread.io.

Configurable converters for Actuator endpoint input parameters

Input parameters of an Actuator @Endpoint can be managed using custom @EndpointConverter-annotated converters.

Callback for Redis cache configuration

The RedisCacheManager configuration has been improved recently and a RedisCacheManagerBuilderCustomizer bean allows you to get a handle to the builder before it is used to configure an immutable RedisCacheManager.

Qualifier for Spring Batch datasource

In an environment with multiple data sources, a DataSource bean can be qualified with @BatchDataSource to indicate it is the one to be used by Spring Batch.

Build info repeatable output

The build info goal has an extra time property that allows to configure how build.time is handled. It can be disabled completely or set to a fixed time to make the output of build.properties repeatable.

Health indicator for Hazelcast

A HealthIndicator is now provided for Hazelcast.

Idle JDBC connections metrics

It is now possible to track the total size of a connection pool by tracking the size and idle metrics. If you have a custom DataSourcePoolMetadata implementation, consider implementing the getIdle method.

Health indicator groups

It is now possible to organize health indicators into groups. A typical example if you deploy your application to Kubernetes, you may want one different sets of health indicators for your “liveness” and “readiness” probes.

Groups can be configured via configuration properties. The following creates a custom group with only the DataSource indicator:

management.endpoint.health.group.custom.include=db

The custom group can be invoked by hitting localhost:8080/actuator/health/custom. Check the updated reference documentation for more details.

Health Endpoint component details

Component details returned from /actuator/health can now be configured to be shown independently of the details. The management.endpoint.health.show-components property works in a similar way to show-details and can be set to never, when-authorized or always.

For example, if you want to always show the individal health indicators composed to create the system health, but you don’t want to show their details you can use:

management.endpoint.health.show-components=always
management.endpoint.health.show-details=never

The same property can also be set on a health indicator group.

Auto-configuration for Flyway JavaMigrations

Flyway will be auto-configured to use any JavaMigration beans that are found in the application context.

Sanitization of URI Properties in Actuator Endpoints

The sanitization performed by the configprops and env endpoints has been improved to include URI properties. Any password found in the URI’s user information will now be sanitized.

Banners

ASCII banner files can now make use of ANSI 256 color escape codes by using {AnsiColor.NNN} (where NNN is the color code). You can also use them with image banners by setting the spring.banner.image.bitdepth property to 8. We’ve also added a spring.banner.image.pixelmode property that you can set to block to use ASCII block chars.

The result looks like this:

SAML Auto-configuration

Auto-configuration for Spring Security’s SAML 2.0 Relying Party is now available when its spring-security-saml2-service-provider module is on the classpath. Relying parties can be registered using the spring.security.saml2.relyingparty.registration.* properties.

Dependency Upgrades

Spring Boot 2.2 moves to new versions of several Spring projects:

Reactor Dysprosium
Spring AMQP 2.2
Spring Batch 4.2
Spring Data Moore
Spring Framework 5.2
Spring HATEOAS 1.0
Spring Integration 5.2
Spring Kafka 2.3
Spring Security 5.2
Spring Session Corn

Numerous third-party dependencies have also been updated, some of the more noteworthy of which are the following:

Artemis 2.9
Elasticsearch 6.7
Flyway 6.0
Git Commit ID Plugin 3.0
Hazelcast 3.12
HSQLDB 2.5
Jackson 2.10
Jedis 3.1
Jersey 2.29
Kafka 2.3
Lettuce 5.2
Micrometer 1.3
Mockito 3.1
Solr 8.0

Miscellaneous

Apart from the changes listed above, there have also been lots of minor tweaks and improvements including:

loadOnStartup can be configured if you’re wrapping a Servlet as an actuator endpoint.
Flyway bootstrap failures are covered by a dedicated FailureAnalyzer
The MessageConverter for Kafka batch listeners is properly auto-configured.
Add support for Jaybird 4 (jdbc:firebird prefix).
Add opt-in support for Neo4j-OGM native types.
Client-side HTTP-metrics have an outcome tag.
Numerous upgrades of third-party dependencies
Prometheus push gateway can now be configured using https
Printer and Parser beans are automatically registered with the application conversion service.
When using the H2 console auto-configuration, JDBC connection URL is now logged at startup for ease of connection.
Couchbase role-based access is now supported via spring.couchbase.username and spring.couchbase.password.
Support for OAuth2 resource server opaque token authentication has been added and can be configured using the spring.security.oauth2.resourceserver.opaquetoken configuration properties.
The application will fail fast if spring.config.location specifies a file with an extension that no PropertySourceLoader can read.
The layout to use to repackage the application can be set on the command line with Maven using the spring-boot.repackage.layout property.
RestTemplateBuilder#defaultHeader accepts more than one value.
Custom resource handlers can serve a favicon.
Kafka’s RecordInterceptor is detected and associated to the auto-configured listener container.
YAML configuration can now use on or off for boolean types.
Actuator discovery page is now available on / when using a separate management port.
@WebMvcTest now scans HandlerInterceptor beans.
@WebFluxTest scans WebFilter beans.
Configurable timeout for JMS listener container’s receive.
Support for Spring Session’s flush mode.
Support for Spring AMQP’s confirm-type.
Application properties for configuring Jetty’s thread pool.
Support for parallel test execution when using @AutoConfigureMockMvc with JUnit 5.
Zip64 files are now supported inside "Fat Jars".
The ROLLING_FILE_LOG_PATTERN is now exposed for use in logback configurations.
You can now inject and use a customized WebTestClient in any @SpringBootTest.
Dependency management for Oracle’s JDBC driver has been added.
Dependency management for Awaitility has been added.

Deprecations in Spring Boot 2.2

The logging.file property has been renamed to logging.file.name.
The logging.path property has been renamed to logging.file.path.
The server.connection-timeout property has been deprecated in favor of server-specific properties since their behaviors are not strictly the same.
The server.use-forward-headers property has been deprecated in favor of server.forward-headers-strategy; previously server.use-forward-headers=true would use the web server native support. You can now achieve the same with server.forward-headers-strategy=native. Because each server has a specific behavior, we now offer an alternative which relies on Spring’s ForwardedHeaderFilter: server.forward-headers-strategy=framework. Developers should use the option that fits best their use case.
ReactiveWebServerApplicationContext#getWebServerFactory.
The agent property of the Maven plugin has been renamed to agents.
Joda time support is deprecated in favour of java.time.
ApplicationHealthIndicator in favour of PingHealthIndicator that is always contributed.
ConfigurationBeanFactoryMetadata in favour of ConfigurationPropertiesBean.
ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor constructors in favor of @EnableConfigurationProperties or the register method.
ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessor.VALIDATOR_BEAN_NAME has moved to EnableConfigurationProperties.VALIDATOR_BEAN_NAME.
ConfigurationPropertiesBindingPostProcessorRegistrar in favor of @EnableConfigurationProperties.
WebTestClientBuilderCustomizer has been relocated to org.springframework.boot.test.web.reactive.server.