v2.7.8

⭐ Noteworthy

• The coordinates of the MySQL JDBC driver have changed from mysql:mysql-connector-java to com.mysql:mysql-connector-j.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Devtools sets non-existent property spring.reactor.debug #33858
• Failing calls to reactive health indicators are not logged #33774
• Failure analysis of NoUniqueBeanDefinitionException reports "defined in null" when bean definition has no resource description #33765
• NPE in RabbitProperties when user is given, but password not #33752
• SDKMAN should not use repo.spring.io for releases #33708
• Homebrew and Scoop should not use repo.spring.io for releases #33702
• EndpointRequestMatcher should have a toString method #33690
• It is not possible to provide a custom TransactionProvider bean for JOOQ #32899
• SpringBootMockResolver causes AopTestUtils.getUltimateTargetObject to recurse until the stack overflows when it calls it with Spring Security's authentication manager bean #32632
• Inconsistent discovery of parameter names for selectors in custom actuator endpoints #31240
• @DeprecatedConfigurationProperty has no effect when declared on a record component's accessor method #29526
• Headless mode is forced when banner.* file is present. #28803
• Diagnostics are poor when the JMX port used by the Maven start goal is in use #24044

📔 Documentation

• Replace "via" in documentation and use "over" or "through" instead #33878
• Fix typo in kotlin getting started documentation #33867
• Update com.gorylenko.gradle-git-properties version to 2.4.1 in doc #33838
• Fix 'the the' typos #33736
• Fix typo in javadoc of org.springframework.boot.web.server.LocalServerPort #33683
• Fix a typo in the ExitCodeGenerator documentation #33658
• Fix typo in External Configuration documentation #33630
• Update getting started documentation to use @SpringBootApplication #32795
• Description of spring-boot-starter-websocket does not make it clear that it's Servlet-specific #32493

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade to Byte Buddy 1.12.22 #33887
• Upgrade to Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.15 #33779
• Upgrade to FreeMarker 2.3.32 #33888
• Upgrade to Groovy 3.0.14 #33780
• Upgrade to Infinispan 13.0.15.Final #33781
• Upgrade to Jolokia 1.7.2 #33782
• Upgrade to MariaDB 3.0.10 #33783
• Upgrade to Micrometer 1.9.7 #33784
• Upgrade to MSSQL JDBC 10.2.3.jre8 #33889
• Upgrade to MySQL 8.0.32 #33890
• Upgrade to Netty 4.1.87.Final #33891
• Upgrade to Reactor Bom 2020.0.27 #33785
• Upgrade to Spring AMQP 2.4.9 #33790
• Upgrade to Spring Data 2021.2.7 #33788
• Upgrade to Spring Framework 5.3.25 #33786
• Upgrade to Spring WS 3.1.5 #33789
• Upgrade to Tomcat 9.0.71 #33892
• Upgrade to XmlUnit2 2.9.1 #33787

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@BartR96, @devrishal, @dreis2211, @izeye, @josephlane, @kvmw, @mhalbritter, @sannanansari, @sdeleuze, @yyjstudy, and @zhangyanyue