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JHipster release v6.0.0

This is the first official release of JHipster v6.

It builds upon our v6.0.0.beta.0 release, after one month of beta testing and 120 closed tickets and pull requests.

Most important new features and upgrades​

Those are the release notes from our previous beta release (v6.0.0.beta.0), updated for this stable release (v6.0.0).

  • Migration to Spring Boot 2.1.x
  • JDK 11 support (while keeping JDK 8+ compatibility)
  • HTML 5 pushstate #9098
  • Kubernetes enhancements (Istio, Helm)
  • Migration to Spring Cloud Greenwish.x
  • Upgrade to Spring Security 5.1's OIDC Support
  • Upgrade to JUnit 5
  • FakerJS support to generate sample data for entities #9104
  • Update to latest Angular version #8161
  • Update to latest React version
  • Lazy Loading of Angular entities
  • Bootswatch theme selection
  • Removed CSS Option #9350
  • Improvements in Sonar integration #9423 and #9482, including an externalized sonar-project.properties file.
  • Gatling 3 support, including several improvements with better and faster incremental builds and BOM support.
  • Integration tests are set up in their separate phase for Maven and Gradle
  • Update to Gradle 5
  • Migration to Liquibase 3.6.x
  • Update Elastic to 6.4.x
  • Update to Couchbase 6.x
  • Update to Infinispan 9.4.x
  • Update to Cassandra 4.x
  • Update to Hazelcast 3.11.x
  • Logging to the console in json format
  • Changing the default packaging to Jar while still being able to produce a War #9034
  • Prettier for formatting YAML #9281
  • Prettier transform to prettify the output from all sub-generators #9371

We also removed a few features:

  • Removed deprecated 'rancher-compose' sub-generator
  • Removed Chocolatey and Homebrew installations, as we found out they didn't provide much benefits to users
  • Deprecated the JHipster Devbox for the moment: we are looking for a maintainer, if you are interested please ping us!

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: