2.4.0-M2

⭐ New Features

• The current gradle version is extremely old #581
• Move Samples to Support JDK 9+ #573
• Is there any plan to rebuild some demo to springboot? #558
• Failed to read schema document ".../spring-repository.xsd" #32

🪲 Bug Fixes

• Close searchResults so LDAP context can close. #609
• Fix find LdapTemplate, specifying return attributes. #569
• Puzzled about the boolean authenticate . #537
• LDAP connection not closed due to DefaultDirContextValidator #489
• Fixed debug log format strings #467
• LdapTemplate.find method is NOT taking the attributesToReturn from LdapQuery #465

🔨 Dependency Upgrades

• Spring LDAP should build with JDK 11 #626
• Update to Spring Data BOM 2021.0.8 #625
• Update to Spring Framework 5.3.15 #624
• Update to Spring Security 5.6.1 #623
• Update to UnboundId 6 #615
• Update typica dependency to 1.7.2 #575

❤️ Contributors

We'd like to thank all the contributors who worked on this release!

• @orlandosso
• @perry2of5
• @mfijas