1.4.0

⭐ New Features

• Support for bean instances located in test sources for @ApplicationModuleTest #202
• Automatically create counters for cross-module application events #1068
• Provide abstraction to access ApplicationModuleIdentifiers in order of module dependency #1066
• Avoid the bootstrap of an ApplicationModules instance to execute ApplicationModuleInitializers #1065
• Documenter should automatically write application module metadata #1063
• Application metadata JSON should list ApplicationModuleInitializer beans #1062
• Avoid dependency on JGraphT #1060
• Migrate to FinishedSpan.localServiceName(…) #935
• Remove AWS integration in favor of Spring Cloud AWS port #1024
• Allow detecting NamedInterfaces programmatically #1009
• Move to Micrometer's Observations API #928

💡 Improvements

• Remove deprecated support for Spring AutoRestDocs for Javadoc extraction #1193^*
• Deprecate @CheckReturnValue in favor of the Spring Framework variant #1189^*
• Support to disable automatic additional verifications executed by ApplicationModules.verify() #1185^*
• Improve rendering of tree structures in reference documentation #1171
• Removed deprecated FormatableType #1153
• ApplicationModules should expose root packages #1152
• ApplicationModule should expose internal types #1150
• Module observability listener performance issue on publishEvent #1149
• Performance problem with event publication lookup #1146
• State change detection for Scenarios should only accept non-empty collections by default #1131
• Event externalization bootstrap should log which event types it's configured to externalize. #1130
• Align automatic module names with project portfolio #1122
• Register AssertablePublishedEvents in test ApplicationContext if AssertJ is on the classpath #1110
• ModuleTestExecution should use ApplicationModulesFactory to create ApplicationModules instance #1090
• Set up DCO infrastructure #1087
• Move AOT processor generating application module metadata to runtime module #1064
• Structurally identical events cause the wrong publication to be selected for completion #1056
• Avoid dependency on Apache Commons Logging from spring-modulith-docs artifact #1055
• ModulithMetadata.of(String) should pick up classes annotated with @Modulithic in the given package #1015
• Allow filtering Violations #995
• Allow registering skin parameters in generated PlantUML diagrams #983
• Provide a Spring Boot compatibility matrix #971
• Improve Application Module Canvas rendering #968
• Improve documentation when to add the Spring Modulith Core artifact in compile scope #943
• Controllers implementing interfaces not mapped when the observability module is used #933

🪲 Bugs

• FormattableType.getAbbreviatedTypeName(…) skips containing class for nested ones #1151
• @NamedInterface not detected on composed annotation #1139
• Fix Kotlin examples for module and named interfaces declarations and … #1138
• Severe performance regression in JavaPackage #1098
• Complete description for Neo4j index property #1084
• Application module identifier not picked up on package marker types #1052
• Resubmission of publications must not unregister in-progress publications in case of successful invocation #1051
• @ApplicationModuleTest in separate test files does not cache the ApplicationContext #1050
• ApplicationModuleSource picks up module identifier from nested modules #1042
• NamedInterfaces.Builder excludes all packages by default #1040
• JavaPackage.getSubPackages() does not include empty intermediate packages #1039
• ApplicationModuleInformation needs to be public #1038
• Proxy creation in observability support should use the original bean's classloader #1016
• IllegalArgumentException in AsciiDoc generation for Spring @EventListeners without parameters #1006
• Prevent compile time dependency of APT on docs artifact #984
• Asciidoctor.toInlineCode(String) does not handle local method references correctly #965
• Archiving JPA entity causes unnecessary need to set up archive table #964

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Upgrade Micrometer Tracing to 1.5.0 #1205^*, #1169, #1104, #1072, #1036
• Upgrade to Spring Boot 3.5 #1203, #1176, #1073, #1037
• Upgrade Spring Framework to 6.2.7 #1202, #1168, #1116, #1103, #1071, #1046
• Upgrade jMolecules to 2023.3.1 #1167, #1045
• Upgrade to ArchUnit 1.4 #1097
• Upgrade to APTK 0.29 #992
• Upgrade to Structurizr 3.1 #961

❤️ Contributors

Thank you to all the contributors who worked on this release:

@Alexander-Miller @ciberkleid @marcingrzejszczak @lukasdo @dtsaryov @sangjun121

^* – Added between RC1 and GA.