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JHipster release 4.14.0

What's new

The big news is that this is the last 4.x release from the master branch. Starting now, our focus will be JHipster 5, and JHipster 4 will be in maintenance mode: we will do patches if necessary, but the main development work will be on JHipster 5.

For the record, JHipster 5 will focus on Spring Boot 2 and on React. Angular will still be a first-class citizen, but AngularJS will be excluded from the main project (you will still be able to use AngularJS as an external "blueprint", which is a new system that will be published with JHipster 5).

Here are the highlights of this release:

  • Upgrade to Spring Security 4.2.4 to fix CVE-2017-8030 - see #7059
  • Migrate to the new HttpClientModule from Angular 4.3 - see #6281
  • Upgrade to Angular 5.2 and Bootstrap 4.0.0 - see #7005
  • Upgrade to Angular CLI to 1.6.6 - see #7052
  • Heroku deployments can now be made directly through Git - see #7045
  • React support is still "experimental", so you need to run jhipster --experimental to enable React support. This is not complete yet, but we are quickly moving forward, so you can already have a good taste of JHipster 5 here. And if you're a React expert, don't hesitate to contribute!
  • Generate i18n mouseover/tooltip help from JDL comments - see #6797

Closed tickets and merged pull requests

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

How to upgrade

Automatic upgrade

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

Upgrade your version of JHipster:

yarn global upgrade generator-jhipster

And then run the upgrade sub-generator:

jhipster upgrade

Manual upgrades

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

yarn global upgrade 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

You can also update your project and all its entities by running

jhipster --with-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

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: