• Upgrading from Spring Boot 2.7
• New and Noteworthy
• Java 17 Baseline and Java 19 Support
• GraalVM Baseline and Native Build Tools
• Third-party Library Upgrades
• GraalVM Native Image Support
• Log4j2 Enhancements
• Improved @ConstructorBinding Detection
• Micrometer Updates
• Auto-configuration for Micrometer Observation API
• Auto-configuration for Micrometer Tracing
• Auto-configuration for Micrometer’s OtlpMeterRegistry
• Prometheus Support
• Auto-Configuration for Prometheus Exemplars
• Making a PUT to Prometheus Push Gateway on Shutdown
• More Flexible Auto-configuration for Spring Data JDBC
• Enabling Async Acks with Apache Kafka
• Elasticsearch Java Client
• Auto-configuration of JdkClientHttpConnector
• @SpringBootTest with Main Methods
• Miscellaneous
• Deprecations in Spring Boot 3.0