Across 5.4.0 Release notes

The main change in Across 5.4 is the upgrade from Spring Boot 2.4 to 2.6. This required no changes in the Across code itself, only a few minor changes in tests. If you are on Across 5.2 or 5.3, it should be almost trivial to upgrade.

Note that Spring Boot 2.5 is the first version to support Java 17, so it should finally be possible to upgrade, but this hasn’t been tested at this moment. FYI, all Across 5.x releases are still built with Java 8.

Upgrades

Most important upgrades (compared to 5.3.0):

• Spring Boot: from 2.4.13 to 2.6.15:

  • https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-Boot-2.5-Release-Notes
  • https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/wiki/Spring-Boot-2.6-Release-Notes

• Spring Framework: from 5.3.30 to 5.3.31

• Spring Security: from 5.4.9 to 5.6.12:

  • https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/site/docs/5.5.x/reference/html5/#new
  • https://docs.spring.io/spring-security/reference/5.6-SNAPSHOT/whats-new.html (the actual release notes link in the announcement is broken; this is the best I could find).

• QueryDSL: from 4.4.0 to 5.0.0: https://github.com/querydsl/querydsl/releases/tag/QUERYDSL_5_0_0

• Hibernate: from 5.4.32 to 5.6.15:

  • https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/5.5/migration-guide.adoc
  • https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/blob/5.6/migration-guide.adoc

• Jackson: from 2.11.4 to 2.13.5:

  • https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-2.12
  • https://github.com/FasterXML/jackson/wiki/Jackson-Release-2.13

• Mockito: from 3.6.28 to 4.0.0: https://github.com/mockito/mockito/releases/tag/v4.0.0

Across Framework/Modules/Platform Versions

across-framework:            5.4.0
across-autoconfigure:        2.4.0
across-base-modules:         4.4.0
across-entity-admin-modules: 4.4.0
across-user-auth-modules:    4.4.0
across-media-modules:        6.4.0
across-platform:             5.4.0

Code changes

Spring Boot 2.6 required an NPE fix in across-web, but that fix was already included in 5.2.2.

In the user-module, many services have a new findBy method, because the org.springframework.data.querydsl.QuerydslPredicateExecutor interface added that method.

In the main code, that’s all that was changed.

In the tests, the only code changes were adaptations for the upgrade to Mockito 4: the deprecated method verifyZeroInteractions has been removed, and all calls had to be replaced with verifyNoInteractions or verifyNoMoreInteractions.

Configuration changes

The Maven coordinates for the Oracle JDBC driver have changed: See the Spring Boot 2.6 Release notes for details.

Since Spring Boot 2.6, circular bean references are prohibited by default. For all Across tests, this has been reverted back.

Idem for PathPattern Based Path Matching Strategy for Spring MVC.

Both options still exist in Spring Boot 3.2, so they shouldn’t cause a problem for the future upgrade to Spring Boot 3.

Removed features

Support for Solr has been removed from entity-module, because Spring Data Solr has been discontinued. Note that in fact no changes were made to the main code of entity-module itself: it’s just that the tests have been removed.

Thanks

Thanks to:

• Arno for testing a snapshot build with a client application.