Is there a plan to upgrade to Spring boot 3 & Spring 6?

[KeshavRathi]

Is there a plan to upgrade to Spring boot 3 & Spring 6

Context

A project of our uses Riptide and we wanted to upgrade the Spring version in it but can't as Riptide still uses the previous version and has few deprecated classes.

[fatroom]

We evaluating upgrade to spring boot 3, but no established timeline for a moment

[fatroom]

At the moment there's no immediate plans to upgrade.
Some of our dependencies are not ready to be used with spring 6 (i.e. rest-driver) neither appropriate replacement (wiremock in unit test mode).

If you want to work on upgrade I would be happy to support with reviews and release of the new version.

[fatroom]

Steps needs to be performed before migration to spring 6:

• Switch to JDK17 #1391
• Consolidate usage of http mock servers in tests #1392
• Cleanup AsyncRestTemplate support #1393
• switch to apache components >= 5.1
• switch to Jakarta EE >= 9
• accommodate spring changes in sync http client version

Open points:

1. deprecate async Http (?) / find the way to work with reactive spring? maybe outside of the basic spring 6 migration
2. evaluate interface based http clients and decide if can be supported?
3. is migration guide required?