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Spring Boot 2.7.0 has just been released :

Spring Boot 2.7.0 Released with Support for GraphQL, Podman and Cache2k - InfoQ

VMware has released Spring Boot 2.7.0, the latest and final branch of the 2.x series. This latest version of Spring Boot includes support for Spring for GraphQL 1.0; support for the Podman container engine; dependency management and auto-configuration for Cache2k; and new test annotations for ElasticSearch and CouchBase.

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👉 Let's summarize what it brings and what's the next step.

🛍️ What it brings

• Support for GraphQL 1.0
• Support for the Podman container engine as an alternative to Docker Engine
• Dependency management and auto-configuration for Cache2k

🧰 Testing related features

Hot news around testing as new test annotations are coming for :

• ElasticSearch
• Couchbase

📖 /actuator/info related features

JavaInfoContributor and OsInfoContributor classes have been improved and can now expose more information about :

• Java version & vendor
• Underlying OS

⬆️ Dependencies updates

• Spring Data 2021.2
• Spring Security 5.7
• Infinispan 13
• Micrometer 1.9
• Elasticsearch 7.17
• H2 2.1
• Flyway 8.5

🛤️ Head to Spring Boot 3.0

Based on Spring Framework 6.0, Spring Boot 3.0 will be the next major revision and will require Java 17 or above.

☝️ Spring Boot 3.0, planned for November 2022, will be the next version.

Spring Boot 3.0 will also support AOT (ahead-of-time) compilation and native executables thanks to Spring Native.