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JHipster release v5.5.0

This minor release comes with 84 fixed issues and closed pull requests.

The most important one, as everybody doing front-end work will experience it, is our new "pacman" loader (you need to see it to understand!). Many thanks to @sabrinapayet who did #8558, that's a bug bounty which is well-deserved!

Here are the other important closed tickets and pull requests:

  • Fix compilation & test issue with MongoDB relationships in #8511.
  • Cloud Foundry sub-generator does not work: no suitable cloud connector found in #8518.
  • Docker-Compose: limit memory to 512m in #8539.
  • Generate correct Feign configuration for JWT gateways in #8542.
  • Gatling with OAuth2 and Keycloak in #8552.
  • Clean up and document ports in #8580.
  • Application shouldn't write log to file in #8582.
  • Updated Google App Engine Generator for latest JHipster in #8583.

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:

npm update -g generator-jhipster

And then run the upgrade sub-generator:

jhipster upgrade

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

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: