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JHipster release v5.5.0

This minor release comes with 84 fixed issues and closed pull requests.

The most important one, as everybody doing front-end work will experience it, is our new "pacman" loader (you need to see it to understand!). Many thanks to @sabrinapayet who did #8558, that's a bug bounty which is well-deserved!

Here are the other important closed tickets and pull requests:

  • Fix compilation & test issue with MongoDB relationships in #8511.
  • Cloud Foundry sub-generator does not work: no suitable cloud connector found in #8518.
  • Docker-Compose: limit memory to 512m in #8539.
  • Generate correct Feign configuration for JWT gateways in #8542.
  • Gatling with OAuth2 and Keycloak in #8552.
  • Clean up and document ports in #8580.
  • Application shouldn't write log to file in #8582.
  • Updated Google App Engine Generator for latest JHipster in #8583.

Closed tickets and merged pull requests​

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

How to upgrade​

Automatic upgrade

For an automatic upgrade, use the JHipster upgrade sub-generator on an existing application:

Upgrade your version of JHipster:

npm update -g generator-jhipster

And then run the upgrade sub-generator:

jhipster upgrade

Manual upgrades

For a manual upgrade, first upgrade your version of JHipster with:

npm update -g generator-jhipster

If you have an existing project, it will still use the JHipster version with which it was generated. To upgrade your project, you must first delete its node_modules folder and then run:

jhipster

You can also update your project and all its entities by running

jhipster --with-entities

You can also update your entities one-by-one by running again the entity sub-generator, for example if your entity is named Foo

jhipster entity Foo

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: