Spring Boot auto-configuration occurs with minimal involvement from the programmer, so many developers assume that it's all ...

The spring-boot-parent module is no longer published. It provides dependency management for internal dependencies used, for example, in Spring Boot’s own tests. If you were using spring-boot-parent, ...

Full release notes will be available when 4.0 has been released. For now you can check out the release notes for the individual milestones: ...