Phillip Webb

Consider dropping ApplicationContextAotInitializer

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Spring Boot recently introduced [`AotApplicationContextInitializer`](https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/blob/main/spring-boot-project/spring-boot/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/AotApplicationContextInitializer.java) to aid with AOT testing support. This class replaces the need to call `org.springframework.context.aot.ApplicationContextAotInitializer` from Spring Boot. If we're the only consumer, then the Framework...

We're currently a little inconsistent.

Consider allowing to exclude some beans from AOT processed applications

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See https://github.com/spring-projects/spring-boot/issues/32262 for background. Currently we have a number of areas where we want to exclude beans from being used in AOT processed applications. There are a number of ways...

Crosslinks should not include .html

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Eg: > read the "[getting-started.html](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.6.x/reference/html/getting-started.html#getting-started)" and "[using.html](https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.6.x/reference/html/using.html#using)" sections in https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.6.x/reference/html/features.html#features

Tests for spring-boot-gradle-plugin cannot be run in Eclipse due to missing spring-boot-loader.jar

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Running spring-boot-gradle-plugin tests with Eclipse fails out of the box because the `spring-boot-loader.jar` resource is missing. If you update `spring-boot-loader-tools` to include `build/generated-resources/main` as a source folder then the tests...

I think we can remove our own in favor of https://github.com/spring-io/concourse-release-scripts

JarFile implementation calls close early which breaks verification of signed unpacked nested jars on Oracle JDK

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The attempted fix for #29356 caused regression #31853. We'll need to try and find another approach. This might be easier in 3.x since we have fewer Java versions to support.

Add a Bomr option to move to SNAPSHOTs

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It would be really handy if we had a quick way to jump all Spring dependencies to SNAPSHOTs about a week before we release. I think this is currently a...

Add how-to documentation for test-only database migrations with Flyway/Liquibase

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See #26692 for background. Our current documentation has the following: > If you are using a Higher-level Database Migration Tool, like Flyway or Liquibase, you should use them alone to...

We currently can't because of the generated goal documentation