Spring News Roundup: Second Milestone Releases of Boot, Framework, Data, Security, Integration

The Spring ecosystem has released second milestone updates for Boot, Framework, Data, and Security, alongside a first milestone for Spring Cloud. These updates include bug fixes, dependency upgrades, and new features like improved SSL bundle configuration and initial Hibernate ORM 8.0 compatibility.
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These updates are critical for enterprise software developers relying on the Spring framework to maintain secure and modern Java-based applications.
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The second milestone release of Spring Boot 4.2.0 delivers bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: the ability to auto-configure a named SSL Bundle with an instance of the Spring LDAP LdapContextSource class; and a new configuration property, management.observations.conventions=[micrometer|opentelemetry] , to switch semantic conventions to/from Micrometer and OpenTelemetry. More details on this release may be found in the release notes and this wiki page .
The second milestone release of Spring Framework 7.1.0 ships with bug fixes, documentation improvements, dependency upgrades and new features such as: improved null safety in the ScheduledAnnotationBeanPostProcessor class; and improved validation with the parse() method, defined in the MockCookie class, if the Set-Cookie HTTP response header is empty. Further details on this release may be found in the release notes .
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