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JHipster release v5.8.0

This new minor release has 133 closed tickets and merged pull requests.

Here are the most significant ones:

  • Switch to Micrometer - #8812
  • Angular: Lazy load entities - #8925
  • Support JPA derived identifiers for one-to-one - #8685
  • Add global logout for OIDC authentication - #8757
  • Many libraries upgrades, including an upgrade to Spring Boot 2.0.8.RELEASE

After this release, we will focus on JHipster 6, so JHipster 5 will go into maintenance mode. We should announce beta releases of JHipster 6 shortly.

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: