[NIFI-8502] Upgrade Spring Framework to latest 5.x version

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.13.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.14.0
• Labels: security springframework springsecurity
• Assignee: David Handermann
• Reporter: Joe Gresock
• Created: 29/Apr/21 18:00
• Updated: 12/May/21 10:54
• Resolved: 12/May/21 10:54

Description

In order to take advantage of more recent Spring services like Spring Vault (relies on 5.3.5), we should consider upgrading spring-core and other Spring dependencies to the latest 5.x release. Note that this would be a major version upgrade for most Spring dependencies.

Issue Links

• relates to: NIFI-8513 Upgrade Spring Framework to 4.3.30
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5066