Spring Boot 3.5.0 M2 Release Notes

Spring Boot 3.5.0-M2 Release Notes

Upgrading from Spring Boot 3.4

TBD

Minimum Requirements Changes

None.

New and Noteworthy

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

Ignore properties when using `spring-boot-configuration-processor`

When using the spring-boot-configuration-processor, the META-INF/additional-spring-configuration-metadata.json file can now be used to ignore properties:

{
  "ignored": {
    "properties": [
      {
        "name": "my.age"
      }
    ]
  }
}

This removes my.age from the generated spring-configuration-metadata.json file. Additionally, the information that my.age has been ignored is also recorded in the generated spring-configuration-metadata.json file.

Load properties from environment variables

While it was already possible to load a single property from an environment variable, it’s now possible to load multiple properties from a single environment variable.

For example, the multi-line environment variable MY_CONFIGURATION with this content:

my.var1=value1
my.var2=value2

can now be imported using the env: prefix:

spring.config.import=env:MY_CONFIGURATION

After this, my.var1 and my.var2 are available in the Environment.

This feature supports properties and yaml format. For more details, please see the documentation.

Dependency Upgrades

Spring Boot 3.5.0-M2 moves to new versions of several Spring projects:

TBD

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

TBD

Miscellaneous

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

If io.micrometer:micrometer-java21 is on the classpath, a VirtualThreadsMetrics bean is now auto-configured.
The java.home system property is no longer used when running in native image.
The new property spring.jooq.config can be used to specify an external jOOQ settings.xml file or resource.
New factory methods have been added to SslManagerBundle to create a SslManagerBundle from a TrustManagerFactory or from a TrustManager.
The logging.structured.json.customizer properties now accepts more than one customizer.
A new spring.r2dbc.pool.acquire-retry` property has been added.
@ConditionalOnBean now supports generic @Bean return types
@ConditionalOnProperty and @ConditionalOnBooleanProperty are now @Repeatable
Some unbindable properties with the prefixes spring.datasource.dbcp2, spring.datasource.hikari, spring.datasource.oracleucp and spring.datasource.tomcat have been removed from spring-configuration-metadata.json.