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JHipster release v6.0.0-beta.0

This is our first beta release for JHipster v6.

It includes more than 400 closed tickets and pull requests on the main project, so it is really a huge work.

It is not available through the usual channels as this is a beta release, please read below for more information!

Most important new features and upgrades​

  • Migration to spring-boot 2.1.x
  • JDK 11 support (while keeping JDK 8+ compatibility)
  • HTML 5 pushstate #9098
  • Kubernetes enhancements (Istio, Helm)
  • Migration to spring-cloud Greenwish.x
  • Upgrade to Spring Security 5.1's OIDC Support
  • FakerJS support to generate sample data for entities #9104
  • Update to latest Angular version #8161
  • Update to latest React version
  • Lazy Loading of Angular entities
  • Bootswatch theme selection
  • Removed CSS Option #9350
  • Improvements in Sonar integration #9423 and #9482
  • Gatling 3 support, including several improvements with better and faster incremental builds and BOM support.
  • Integration tests are set up in their separate phase for Maven and Gradle
  • Update to Gradle 5
  • Migration to Liquibase 3.6.x
  • Update Elastic to 6.4.x
  • Update to Couchbase 6.x
  • Update to Infinispan 9.4.x
  • Update to Cassandra 4.x
  • Update to Hazelcast 3.11.x
  • Logging to the console in json format
  • Changing the default packaging to Jar while still being able to produce a War #9034
  • Prettier for formatting YAML #9281
  • Prettier transform to prettify the output from all sub-generators #9371
  • Removed deprecated 'rancher-compose' sub-generator

How to install​

This is a beta release, so it is not available on our usual "stable" release channel.

To install JHipster v6.0.0-beta.0 using using NPM:

npm install -g generator-jhipster@beta

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

However, as this is a BETA release it will not be available using our other usual channels like:

You also won’t be able to use the jhipster upgrade sub-generator, as it won’t “see” the BETA release, which is distributed through a specific beta channel on NPM.

Closed tickets and merged pull requests​

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

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: