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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

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.