[NIFI-8721] Upgrade Spring Boot to 2.5.1

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.14.0
• Component/s: NiFi Registry
• Labels: dependency-upgrade
• Assignee: David Handermann
• Reporter: David Handermann
• Created: 21/Jun/21 17:53
• Updated: 23/Jun/21 08:39
• Resolved: 23/Jun/21 08:39

Description

NiFi Registry currently uses Spring Boot 2.2.6.RELEASE, which references Spring Framework and Spring Security libraries that are several minor revisions behind current versions.  Upgrading to Spring Boot 2.5.1 upgrades these transitive dependencies with associated bug fixes and improvements.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #5172