On behalf of the Spring Boot team and everyone that has contributed, I am pleased to announce that Spring Boot 2.7.0 has been released and is available from Maven Central.

This release adds a significant number of new features and improvements. For full upgrade instructions and new and noteworthy features please see the release notes .

What's new in 2.7

The highlights of the 2.7 release include:

Auto-configuration and metrics for Spring for GraphQL; see related 1.0 release announcement

New @DataCouchbaseTest and @DataElasticsearchTest support

Podman can now be used when building images using Cloud Native Buildpacks

Support for Cache2k

Simplified registration of Jackson Mixins

Web server SSL configuration using PEM-encoded certs

Dependency upgrades

Spring Boot 2.7 moves to new versions of several Spring projects:

Spring Data 2021.2

Spring HATEOAS 1.5

Spring LDAP 2.4

Spring Security 5.7

Spring Session 2021.2

We’ve also upgraded to the latest stable releases of other third-party libraries wherever possible. Please see the release notes for details.

Other changes

There's a whole host of other changes and improvements that are documented in the release notes . You can also find a list of deprecated classes and methods that we plan to remove in the next version.