Spring Boot 2.3 enhances Docker support with new features

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Spring Boot is an open source framework based on Java. Originally developed by Pivotal, it helps users create stand-alone, production-grade Spring-based applications with minimal configuration.

The latest update is now available. Spring Boot 2.3 adds a few new noteworthy features, fixes some issues, updates dependencies, and includes improvements.

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Upgrades

Spring Boot 2.3 upgrades a handful of projects and dependencies. It moves to the stable version of several third-party libraries.

These upgrades include:

  • Spring HATEOAS 1.1
  • Spring Integration 5.3
  • Spring Kafka 2.5
  • Spring Security 5.3
  • Spring Session Dragonfruit
  • Cassandra Driver 4.6
  • Couchbase Client 3.0
  • Elasticsearch 7.6
  • Kafka 2.5
  • Micrometer 1.5
  • MongoDB 4.0

Be aware that with these upgrades comes a number of deprecations and backwards incompatible changes.

For instance, Cassandra v4 introduces two new customizers (DriverConfigLoaderBuilderCustomizer  and CqlSessionBuilderCustomizer ) to replace ClusterBuilderCustomizer .

The minimum requirements for running Spring Boot have been updated. Users now require either Gradle 6.3+ or Jetty 9.4.22+.

Docker support changes

A few additions to help Docker support have been added.

Support for building Docker images with Cloud Native Buildpacks has been added. By default, the Paketo buildpack will be used. This will allow for more efficient Docker builds.

Spring Boot 2.3 adds support for building jar files with contents separated into layers for Maven and Gradle plugins.

From the changelog:

When you create a layered jar, the spring-boot-jarmode-layertools jar will be added as a dependency to your jar by default (this can be disabled with build configuration). With this jar on the classpath, you can launch your application in a special mode which allows the bootstrap code to run something entirely different from your application, for example, something that extracts the layers.

Graceful shutdown

Jetty, Reactor Netty, Tomcat, and Undertow all now support graceful shutdown when enabling server.shutdown=graceful with reactive and Servlet-based web apps.

With this feature, after shutdown, the web server will wait a grace period before beginning any new requests. It will wait for all active requests to complete.

Configure the grace period using spring.lifecycle.timeout-per-shutdown-phase.

Spring Data Neumann GA

Now that Spring Data Neumann is generally available, it will ship with Spring Boot 2.3.

The new major GA release for Spring Data includes over 650 features, as well as numerous bug fixes.

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Deprecations

The following are now deprecated with Spring Boot 2.3:

  • spring.http. properties moved to server.servlet.encoding., spring.mvc. and spring.codec.
  • SpringApplication#refresh(ApplicationContext) is now deprecated. Please use SpringApplication#refresh(ConfigurableApplicationContext) instead.
  • ON_TRACE_PARAM has been renamed ON_PARAM.

Get started

That’s not all that has been added and changed in the newest version. For more information about all the changes implemented in Spring Boot 2.3, view the release notes. Additionally, view the configuration changelog here.

Download the latest updates via Maven Central or from repo.spring.io/release/.

Read the update instructions and begin your upgrade to Spring Boot 2.3. Be aware of deprecations, removals, and version changes.

Spring Boot newcomers should first familiarize themselves with the quick start guide and learn how to create a basic “Hello World” endpoint. You will need a JDK and an IDE.

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