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JHipster release v8.4.0

This is a minor release for JHipster v8.

It includes 224 closed issues and pull requests on the main branch after the 8.3.0 release.

What's new?​

  • Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.2.5 (#25902)
  • Update Codec for Redis to fix LazyInitializationException (#25988)
  • Use custom CSRF handler to provide BREACH protection (#25907)
  • Fix Spring Boot profiles to inherit from Spring Boot parent (#25980)
  • Add support for homepage customizations in blueprints (#25943)

💻 Frontend​

  • [Angular] Remove LocaleConfiguration that's no longer needed (#23818)
  • [Node] Upgrade to Node 20.12.2 (#25801)

📜 Others​

  • Several improvements, library upgrades, and bug fixes

Closed tickets and merged pull requests​

As always, you can check all closed tickets and merged pull requests here.

How to install​

To install JHipster v8.4.0:

npm install -g generator-jhipster

It is also available using the JHipster Docker image, as it is automatically built from our source code.

How to upgrade​

Automatic upgrade

For an automatic upgrade, use the JHipster upgrade sub-generator on an existing application:

Upgrade your version of JHipster:

npm update -g generator-jhipster

And then run the upgrade sub-generator:

jhipster upgrade

You can also use the migrate blueprint for more advanced upgrade features.

npm i -g generator-jhipster-migrate
jhipster-migrate

Manual upgrades

For a manual upgrade, first upgrade your version of JHipster with:

npm update -g generator-jhipster

If you have an existing project, it will still use the JHipster version with which it was generated. To upgrade your project, you must first delete its node_modules folder and then run:

jhipster

Since JHipster 8.0, this command will update your project and all its entities.

You can also update your entities one-by-one by running again the entity sub-generator, for example if your entity is named Foo, use:

jhipster entity Foo

Help and bugs​

If you find any issue with this release, don't hesitate to:

If the issue you have is an urgent bug or security issue, please: