• Spring Boot 2.4.0 M1 Release Notes
• Upgrading from Spring Boot 2.3
• JUnit 5’s Vintage Engine Removed from spring-boot-starter-test
• Removal of Plugin Management for Flatten Maven Plugin
• Deprecations from Spring Boot 2.3
• Minimum requirements changes
• New and Noteworthy
• Spring Framework 5.3-M1
• Spring Data 2020.0-M1
• Spring Batch 4.3.0-M1
• Preliminary support for JDK 15
• Configuration property for H2 Console’s web admin password
• CqlSession-Based Health Indicators for Apache Cassandra
• Filtered Scraping with Prometheus
• Dependency Upgrades
• Miscellaneous
• Deprecations in Spring Boot 2.4.0 M1