New Features:

• The release is based on JakartaEE 9.1: the javax.*  packages are migrated to jakarta .* ()

• Support of Spring Framework 6 / Spring Boot 3

  The Spring Framework 6 / Spring Boot 3 runtimes are compatible with Jakarta EE 9.1 and Jakarta EE 10, but may bring Jakarta EE 10 dependencies by default at build time (for example, https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-framework/issues/29435). The Apache CXF 4.0 is not yet compatible with Jakarta EE 10 (see please ) and in some cases you may need to manually override the versions of the dependecies.

  
  

• Support of ActiveMQ Artemis ()

Major Dependency Changes:

• The javax.* specs are replaced with jakarta .* specs ()
• Update to Jetty 11 ()
• Update to Tomcat 10.1
• Update to Hibernate 6.1
• Update to Hibernate Validator 7.0
• Update to Slf4j 2.0 ()
• Update to Hazelcast 5.2.0
• Update to WSS4J 3.0.0
• Update to Atmosphere 3.0.0
• Update to Spring Security 6
• Update to Spring Framework 6
• Update to Spring Boot 3
• Update to EasyMock 5.0
• Update to Lucene 9.4.x ()
• Update to Swagger 2.2.x
• Apache HttpClient5 5.2 and HttpCore5 5.2 ()

Removed Features:

• OSGi support is removed ()
• Swagger 1.x support is removed  ()
• ActiveMQ 5.x support is removed  ()
• Legacy Jetty 9.x Continuations support is removed ()

Important Notes:

• The default authentication scheme for the JwtAuthenticationFilter has changed from "JWT" to "Bearer".
• The minimum JDK baseline is set to JDK-11. However, in case when Spring 6 / Spring Boot 3 integration is used, the minimum JDK version should be considered to be JDK-17.