Release v2.5.8 · spring-projects/spring-boot

🐞 Bug Fixes

DatabaseInitializationDependencyConfigurer triggers eager initialization of factory beans #28977
App fails to start when it depends on thymeleaf-extras-springsecurity5 but does not have Spring Security on the classpath #28967
Platform used for Quartz, Session, Integration, and Batch schema initialization cannot be configured #28932
Image buildpack references without tag do not default to latest version #28921
The getter and setter that's used during configuration property binding varies when a getter or setter has been overridden to use a subclass of the property's type #28917
Invalid classpath index manifest attribute in war files built with Maven #28895
The name of the matching-strategy property is incorrect in the action message of the failure analysis for a PatternParseException #28809
Dependency management for org.elasticsearch.distribution.integ-test-zip:elasticsearch should declare its type as zip #28725

Polish Creating Your Own Auto-configuration section in Core Features reference doc #29115
Polish CacheManager customization section in reference doc #29094
Document that using DevTools with a remote application is not supported with WebFlux #28955
2.5.x snapshot documentation links to source code on the main branch #28856
Polish README.adoc #28835
Fix output of "spring --version" in reference documentation #28831
Fix typos in the "External Application Properties" section #28830
Improve deprecation notice on ResourceProperties to direct people to WebProperties for dependency injection and then getResources() #28762
Add a package description for org.springframework.boot.actuate.metrics.data #28756

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!