• Spring Boot 2.6 Release Notes
• Upgrading from Spring Boot 2.5
• Deprecations from Spring Boot 2.4
• Circular References Prohibited by Default
• PathPattern Based Path Matching Strategy for Spring MVC
• Actuator Env InfoContributor Disabled by Default
• Application Startup
• Web Resources Configuration
• Dependency Management Removals
• JBoss Transaction SPI
• Nimbus DS
• HAL Browser
• Prometheus Version Property
• Embedded Mongo
• Oracle Database Driver Dependency Management
• Vault-related Flyway Properties Removed
• WebFlux Session Properties
• Elasticsearch Property Consolidation
• @Persistent no longer considered with Spring Data Couchbase
• Maven Build Info’s Default Time
• Records and @ConfigurationProperties
• Deferred OpenID Connect Discovery
• Kafka 3.0
• Minimum Requirements Changes
• New and Noteworthy
• SameSite Cookie Attribute Servlet Support
• Reactive Server Session Properties
• Pluggable Sanitization Rules
• Java Runtime Information
• Build Info Property Exclusions
• Health Support
• Additional Path on Main or Management Port
• Composite Contributor Include/Exclude Support
• Metrics Support
• Application Startup
• Disk Space
• Task Execution and Scheduling
• Jetty Connection and SSL
• Exporting to the Dynatrace v2 API
• Docker Image Building Support
• Additional Image Tags
• Network Configuration
• Cache Configuration
• Auto-configuration for Spring Data Envers
• Redis Connection Pooling
• Auto-configuration for spring-rabbit-stream
• Support for PEM format in Kafka SSL Properties
• Improved Configuration of the Maven Plugin’s Start Goal
• Auto-configured Spring Web Service Server Tests
• MessageSource-based Interpolation of Bean Validation Messages
• Using WebTestClient for Testing Spring MVC
• Spring Integration PollerMetadata Properties
• Support for Log4j2’s Composite Configuration
• Dependency Upgrades
• Miscellaneous
• Deprecations in Spring Boot 2.6.0