On behalf of the team and everyone who has contributed, I'm happy to announce that Spring Boot 2.6.0-M1 has been released and is now available from https://repo.spring.io/milestone.

This release includes 120 bug fixes, documentation improvements, and dependency upgrades. Notable new features include:

• Auto-configuration for Spring Data Envers
• More metrics support (including task execution and scheduling export and support for the Dynatrace v2 API)
• Auto-configured Spring Web Service Server Tests
• Improved Configuration of the Maven Plugin’s Start Goal

Please see the release notes for more details and upgrade instructions.

Thanks to all those who have contributed with issue reports and pull requests. Our next set of releases are due August 19, 2021.

How can you help?

If you're interested in helping out, check out the "ideal for contribution" tag in the issue repository. If you have general questions, please ask on stackoverflow.com using the spring-boot tag or chat with the community on Gitter.

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