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{
  "source": "spring-boot.releases",
  "vendor": "Spring",
  "id": "tag:github.com,2008:Repository/6296790/v4.2.0-M1",
  "published_at": "2026-08-21T06:58:29.000Z",
  "title": "v4.2.0-M1",
  "url": "https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/releases/tag/v4.2.0-M1",
  "summary": "⭐ New Features Refine Forwarded headers configuration for Jetty servers #51148 Disable Micrometer global registry in tests by default #51142 Use GracefulHandler rather than StatisticsHandler to coordinate graceful shutdown of Jetty #51128 Deprecate RestTemplate support #51118 Update properties for forwarded headers to adapt to Reactor Netty changes #51031 Update properties for forwarded headers to adapt to Spring Framework changes #51030 Remove APIs that were deprecated for removal in 4.2 #50955 Add support for image-based build caches #50899 Provide plugin management for hibernate-maven-plugin #50892 Support timeout option in RetryPolicySettings #50891 Add self-reference to ApplicationContextAssertProvider #50500 Add configuration property for leaveGroupOnClose in Kafka Streams #50432 Expose Path getters on ApplicationHome and ApplicationTemp #50194 Introduce RabbitMQ AMQP 1.0 client support #49857 Introduce Generic AMQP 1.0 client support #49678 Rename spring-boot-amqp to spring-boot-rabbitmq #49677 Add support for AMQP 1.0 #49619 Deprecate TestRestTemplate in favor of RestTestClient #46632 spring-boot.run.useTestClasspath does not take target/test-classes in account #36115 🐞 Bug Fixes Structured logging: a failed JSON encode corrupts the next log event written on the same thread #51371 Kafka consumer-specific security protocol is not taken into account #51370 Exposing gRPC test server port should backoff if gRPC is not present #51291 Micrometer registries pin the application context #51136 Temporary file is not deleted when ExportedImageTar construction fails #51133 spring.grpc.server.health.include-overall-health is not taken into account #51106 Metadata annotation processor ignores getter-level @NestedConfigurationProperty for records #51099 spring-boot-h2-console pulls servlet-api as transitive dependency #51096 PropertiesLauncher does not log nested archive paths #51090 Methods that return the result of Map#remove are not declared with a @Nullable return type #51088 NativeImageResourceProvider flattens Flyway migration paths in subdirectories #50965 Fix ordering of Kotlinx Serialization CodecCustomizer #50962 JarFile is not closed when finding main class from archive #50960 📔 Documentation Description of spring.graphql.websocket.connection-init-timeout does not render correctly in the reference guide #51364 spring.profiles.group should have a 'spring-profile-name' hint provider #51285 Remove reference to removed InfluxDB auto-configuration #51177 Use JacksonJsonSerde in Kafka Streams documentation #51162 Document alternatives to HttpMessageConverters #51130 Fix stale type reference for OTLP logging transport metadata #51126 Metadata for spring.test.mockmvc.htmlunit.url declares the wrong type #51116 Caching documentation refers to AutoConfigureCache by its pre-4.0 package #51114 Fix examples in Metadata Format documentation chapter #51103 Improve discoverability of the AOT Cache How-to guides #51001 🔨 Dependency Upgrades Upgrade to ActiveMQ 6.3.1 #51334 Upgrade to Artemis 2.55.0 #51034 Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.18.11 #51035 Upgrade to Commons Codec 1.22.1 #51198 Upgrade to Commons Logging 1.4.0 #51037 Upgrade to Couchbase Client 3.12.2 #51295 Upgrade to CycloneDX Maven Plugin 2.9.3 #51199 Upgrade to DB2 JDBC 12.1.5.0 #51039 Upgrade to Elasticsearch Client 9.5.0 #51335 Upgrade to Flyway 12.11.0 #51040 Upgrade to Groovy 5.0.8 #51200 Upgrade to Grpc Java 1.81.1 #51229 Upgrade to Grpc Java 1.83.1 #51362 Upgrade to Gson 2.14.0 #51042 Upgrade to Hazelcast 5.7.0 #51309 Upgrade to Hibernate 7.4.5.Final #51043 Upgrade to Hibernate Validator 9.1.3.Final #51201 Upgrade to HikariCP 7.1.0 #51045 Upgrade to HtmlUnit 5.4.0 #51313 Upgrade to HttpClient5 5.6.4 #51336 Upgrade to HttpCore5 5.4.3 #51047 Upgrade to Infinispan 16.2.2 #51203 Upgrade to Jackson 2 Bom 2.21.5 #51078 Upgrade to Jackson Bom 3.1.5 #51050 Upgrade to Jedis 8.0.0 #51337 Upgrade to Jetty 12.1.12 #51297 Upgrade to jOOQ 3.21.7 #51314 Upgrade to Json Path 3.0.0 #50786 Upgrade to JSpecify 1.0.1 #51204 Upgrade to JUnit Jupiter 6.1.3 #51315 Upgrade to Kafka 4.3.1 #51054 Upgrade to Kotlin 2.4.10 #51205 Upgrade to Kotlin Coroutines 1.11.0 #51206 Upgrade to Lettuce 7.6.0.RELEASE #51338 Upgrade to Log4j2 2.26.1 #51055 Upgrade to Logback 1.6.1 #51207 Upgrade to MariaDB 3.5.10 #51208 Upgrade to Maven Dependency Plugin 3.11.0 #51058 Upgrade to Maven Help Plugin 3.5.2 #51059 Upgrade to Maven Invoker Plugin 3.10.1 #51060 Upgrade to Maven Jar Plugin 3.5.1 #51209 Upgrade to Micrometer 1.18.0-M1 #51219 Upgrade to Micrometer Tracing 1.8.0-M1 #51220 Upgrade to MongoDB 5.9.2 #51380 Upgrade to Native Build Tools Plugin 1.1.8 #51316 Upgrade to Neo4j Java Driver 6.2.1 #51340 Upgrade to Netty 4.2.17.Final #51296 Upgrade to OpenTelemetry 1.64.0 #51231 Upgrade to Oracle Database 23.26.3.0.0 #51211 Upgrade to Pooled JMS 3.2.3 #51212 Upgrade to Postgresql 42.7.13 #51064 Upgrade to Prometheus Client 1.8.0 #51232 Upgrade to Protobuf Java 4.35.1 #51233 Upgrade to Protobuf Maven Plugin 5.1.8 #51341 Upgrade to Pulsar 4.2.4 #51213 Upgrade to Qpid ProtonJ2 1.2.0 #51317 Upgrade to R2DBC MariaDB 1.4.1 #51066 Upgrade to R2DBC MSSQL 1.0.5.RELEASE #51067 Upgrade to R2DBC MySQL 1.4.3 #51214 Upgrade to R2DBC Postgresql 1.1.2.RELEASE #51068 Upgrade to RabbitMQ AMQP Client 1.4.0 #51318 Upgrade to RabbitMQ Client 5.34.0 #51069 Upgrade to RabbitMQ Stream Client 1.9.0 #51319 Upgrade to Reactor 2026.0.0-M1 #51167 Upgrade to Selenium 4.46.0 #51071 Upgrade to Selenium HtmlUnit 4.46.0 #51072 Upgrade to Spring AMQP 4.2.0-M1 #51221 Upgrade to Spring Batch 6.1.0-M1 #51269 Upgrade to Spring Data Bom 2026.1.0-M1 #51222 Upgrade to Spring Framework 7.1.0-M1 #51123 Upgrade to Spring GraphQL 2.0.5 #51225 Upgrade to Spring gRPC 1.1.1 #51226 Upgrade to Spring HATEOAS 3.2.0-M1 #51332 Upgrade to Spring Integration 7.2.0-M1 #51223 Upgrade to Spring Kafka 4.2.0-M1 #51224 Upgrade to Spring LDAP 4.1.1 #51270 Upgrade to Spring Pulsar 2.0.7 #51333 Upgrade to Spring Security 7.2.0-M1 #51271 Upgrade to Spring Session 4.1.1 #51272 Upgrade to SQLite JDBC 3.53.2.1 #51216 Upgrade to Tomcat 11.0.24 #51073 Upgrade to UnboundID LDAPSDK 7.0.5 #51074 Upgrade to WebJars Locator Lite 1.1.4 #51075 Upgrade to XmlUnit2 2.13.0 #51217 Upgrade to Yasson 3.0.5 #51320 ❤️ Contributors Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release: @Chrisg2000 , @DragonFSKY , @LordKay-sudo , @MacAlsandair , @SebTardif , @TYsewyn , @dmitrysulman , @eddumelendez , @filiphr , @ghost , @msridhar , @ngocnhan-tran1996 , @scordio , @skdas20 , @sourabh-bhattacharjee , @taasjord , @vvzvvv , @wantaekchoi , @xfocus3 , and @zxuhan",
  "tags": [
    "Spring",
    "spring-boot.releases",
    "java",
    "backend",
    "framework",
    "open-source"
  ]
}