What’s New in Spring Boot 2.3.3? Features, Fixes, and Dependency Upgrades
Spring Boot 2.3.3 has been released with 67 bug fixes, new features like Jetty HTTP/2 support without Conscrypt, and a long list of library upgrades, all available via Maven Central and repo.spring.io for Java backend developers.
Spring Boot 2.3.3 has been officially released and is available from repo.spring.io and Maven Central.
<code><parent>
<groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
<artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
<version>2.3.3.RELEASE</version>
<relativePath/> <!-- lookup parent from repository -->
</parent></code>This release includes 67 bug fixes, enhancements, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades.
New Features
Jetty for HTTP/2 no longer forces the use of Conscrypt #22188
Bug Fixes
External configuration now ignores empty values in SPRING_APPLICATION_JSON #22895
Old version upgrades warn when endpoint IDs contain “-” #21615
Reactor debug agent failure reasons are now retained when initialization fails #22847
OCI image build fails when environment context contains empty properties #22703
Liquibase endpoint no longer hides parent change information #22686
Multiple ServletRegistration entries could cause 404 errors #22682
WAR deployments cannot handle async request exceptions #22672
Task builder configuration wait timeout precision limited to seconds #22611
SpyBean tests may create multiple contexts #22583
WebMvcTest and WebFluxTest now include Jackson modules #22576
CacheManagerCustomizer cannot customize CouchbaseCacheManager #22573
Kubernetes readiness probe endpoint returns 404 #22562
Dependency Upgrades
Micrometer 1.5.4
Spring Security 5.3.4.RELEASE
Spring HATEOAS 1.1.1.RELEASE
RSocket 1.0.2
Pooled JMS 1.1.2
Lettuce 5.3.3.RELEASE
Kafka 2.5.1
jOOQ 3.13.4
Jetty 9.4.31.v20200723
Jackson Bom 2.11.2
Hibernate 5.4.20.Final
Dropwizard Metrics 4.1.12.1
Dependency Management Plugin 1.0.10.RELEASE
Couchbase Client 3.0.7
Commons Pool2 2.8.1
Byte Buddy 1.10.14
Spring Data Neumann SR3
Spring Kafka 2.5.5
Spring AMQP 2.2.10
Reactor Dysprosium-SR11
For more details, see the GitHub repository.
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