• Spring Boot 2.5 Release Notes
• Upgrading from Spring Boot 2.4
• SQL Script DataSource Initialization
• schema.sql and data.sql Files
• Separate Credentials
• Hibernate and data.sql
• Initialization ordering
• Flyway and Liquibase JDBC URLs
• Spring Data JPA
• Spring Data Solr
• Secure Info Endpoint
• Task Scheduling Harmonization with Spring Integration
• Default Expression Language (EL) Implementation
• Messages in the Default Error View
• Logging Shutdown Hooks
• Gradle Default jar and war Tasks
• Cassandra Throttling Properties
• Customizing jOOQ’s DefaultConfiguration
• Groovy 3
• Minimum Requirements Changes
• Hibernate Validator 6.2
• Deprecations from Spring Boot 2.3 and 2.4
• New and Noteworthy
• Environment Variable Prefixes
• HTTP/2 over TCP (h2c)
• Generic DataSource Initialization
• Database Initialization with R2DBC
• Liquibase DataSource
• Layered WARs
• Docker Image Building Support
• Custom Buildpacks
• Bindings
• War Support
• OpenMetrics for Prometheus
• Metrics for Spring Data Repositories
• @Timed Metrics with WebFlux
• MongoDB Metrics
• Actuator Endpoint for Quartz
• GET requests to actuator/startup
• Abstract Routing DataSource Health
• Java 16 Support
• Gradle 7 Support
• Jetty 10 Support
• Documentation Updates
• Miscellaneous
• Dependency Upgrades
• Notable Deprecations in Spring Boot 2.5