• Spring Boot 2.4.0 M2 Release Notes
• Upgrading from Spring Boot 2.3
• Config File Processing (application properties and YAML files)
• Neo4j
• R2DBC
• HTTP traces no longer include cookie headers by default
• Metrics export in integration tests
• Version management for exec-maven-plugin
• Deprecations from Spring Boot 2.3
• Minimum requirements changes
• New and Noteworthy
• Spring Framework 5.3-M2
• Spring Data 2020.0-M2
• Neo4j
• R2DBC
• Importing Additional Application Config
• Volume Mounted Config Directory Trees
• Custom property name support
• Layered jar enabled by default
• Slice test for Cassandra
• Dependency Upgrades
• Miscellaneous
• Deprecations in Spring Boot 2.4.0 M2