Upgrading to Spring Boot 2.4.4 results in "Failed to bind properties"

[vananiev]

I've update Spring Boot from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4 and got

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APPLICATION FAILED TO START
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Description:

Failed to bind properties under 'investbook.report-backup-path' to java.nio.file.Path:
    Property: investbook.report-backup-path
    Value: ${user.home}/report-backups
    Origin: class path resource [application-dev.properties] - 55:33
    Reason: No converter found capable of converting from type [java.lang.String] to type [java.nio.file.Path]

for property

investbook.report-backup-path = ${user.home}/report-backups

Without ${user.home}

investbook.report-backup-path = report-backups

2.4.4 works well.

With 2.4.3 both property values works.

A similar issue, but for 2.4.2 and Duration (relates #25878).

[scottfrederick]

@vananiev This appears to be a duplicate of spring-projects/spring-framework#26702. Can you try using Spring Boot 2.4.4 but downgrading Spring Framework to 5.3.4 as was tested previously to see if that works?

[vananiev]

Yes, downgrading Spring Framework to 5.3.4 with pom.xml setting

<dependencyManagement>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-framework-bom</artifactId>
            <version>5.3.4</version>
            <type>pom</type>
            <scope>import</scope>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
</dependencyManagement>

solves the problem.

[philwebb]

Closing as a duplicate of spring-projects/spring-framework#26702

[vananiev]

#26702 tells about linux. If it matter, my problem occures on windows 7.