Spring Boot 2.7.4 Released: New JDK 19 Support, Bug Fixes & Dependency Updates

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Bug Fixes

H2 console auto‑configuration logging caused a class‑loader error in Hikari thread‑context injection.

Hazelcast auto‑configuration could not read YML‑formatted files.

Hazelcast auto‑configuration’s shutdown log switch was ineffective.

Default value of ‘spring.netty.leak.detection’ changed to disable leak detection.

SELinux with podman: Spring Boot Docker plugin image build reports insufficient permissions.

SnakeYAML 1.31 failed to handle timestamps in YAML.

Built‑in Period and Duration converters no longer accept lower‑case ISO‑8601 inputs.

Dependency Upgrades

Byte Buddy 1.12.17

Couchbase Client 3.3.4

Dependency Management Plugin 1.0.14.RELEASE

Dropwizard Metrics 4.2.12

Ehcache3 3.10.1

Elasticsearch 7.17.6

Embedded Mongo 3.4.9

Groovy 3.0.13

Hibernate 5.6.11.Final

Hibernate Validator 6.2.5.Final

Infinispan 13.0.11.Final

Jackson Bom 2.13.4

Janino 3.1.8

Jetty 9.4.49.v20220914

Johnzon 1.2.19

Kafka 3.1.2

MariaDB 3.0.8

Micrometer 1.9.4

Netty 4.1.82.Final

Postgresql 42.3.7

R2DBC Bom Borca‑SR2

Reactor 2020.0.23

RSocket 1.1.3

Spring AMQP 2.4.7

Spring Batch 4.3.7

Spring Data 2021.2.3

Spring Framework 5.3.23

Spring GraphQL 1.0.2

Spring HATEOAS 1.5.2

Spring Integration 5.5.15

Spring Kafka 2.8.9

UnboundID LDAPSDK 6.0.6