generator-jhipster

What's changed

JHipster 9.3.0 goes all-in on Spring Boot 4! Support for Spring Boot 4 first arrived in 9.0.0, and this release completes the migration: Spring Boot 3 and Jackson 2 support are gone, and every generated application now runs on Spring Boot 4.1. Josh Long asked us about this back in July, so consider this our answer. 😄

Beyond the backend, Angular apps move to Angular 22, React apps now build with Vite, and backend integration tests use Testcontainers ServiceConnection across the board.

🌟 Highlights

🍃 Spring Boot 4

• Generated applications are now Spring Boot 4 only, with Spring Boot 3 support dropped and Jackson 2 support removed; Spring Boot itself moves to 4.1.1
• Relational databases with WebFlux (R2DBC) and Couchbase finished their migration from Spring Boot 3 to 4.1
• Integration tests now use Testcontainers ServiceConnection for relational databases, Couchbase, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, Cassandra, MongoDB, and Kafka
• SecurityUtils no longer returns anonymousUser and LoggingAspect gains reactive support

🖥️ Frontend

• Angular apps are generated with Angular 22, which enables OnPush change detection and strictTemplates by default, plus a broader migration to signals
• React apps now build with Vite instead of webpack
• Angular's webpack module federation migrated to @module-federation/enhanced, monoliths and gateways now load entities through module federation, and user management screens are generated from the shared entity templates
• Notable fixes include static resource loading on deep client-side routes, OAuth2 post-login redirects hijacked by websocket polling, embedded many-to-one relationships in React and Vue, and blank parent columns in Vue entity lists

📦 Toolchain updates

• Build tooling moved to Node.js 24.20.0, npm 12, and Gradle 9.7.1
• GraalVM native image support got a PropertyFilter resolution fix and generated CI/CD pipelines gained GraalVM workflow support

📊 By the numbers

• 669 closed issues and pull requests since [9.2

What's changed

JHipster 9.2.0 is a polish release for v9. It focuses on finishing the move to Vitest on the frontend, tightening generated backend security and validation, fixing a few high-impact generation bugs, and continuing the TypeScript and template cleanup across the generator.

🌟 Highlights

🧩 Templates and internal improvements

• Our 3000+ EJS templates are now checked and formatted by eslint
• Improved blueprint generation and internals with stronger generate-blueprint typing and compatibility, reworked bootstrap generator composition, and MemFsEditorFile integration

🍃 Spring Boot and security

• Upgraded to Spring Boot 4.0.7 and improved generated backend hardening with a safer AccountResource
• An application generation fix restores initial project generation without requiring --force in the affected scenarios
• Reactive generated entities avoid negative BigDecimal scales (#33751) and Neo4j samples add BlockHound customization (#33816)

🖥️ Frontend

• Vitest is now the only generated frontend test framework, with Jest removal from client choices and Angular cleanup of leftover Jest conditionals
• Generated frontend behavior is more reliable across frameworks with PUT support for entities without autogenerated IDs, a React entity creation fix, and a Vue Boolean field rendering fix
• Vue webpack microservice samples now use Vite, and the selected auth option is preserved when generating client apps with --skip-server

📦 Toolchain updates

• Build tooling moved to Node 24.18.0, Gradle 9.6.1, and webpack-dev-server 6
• Supporting dependencies moved to Spring Cloud 2025.1.2, Prettier 3.9.3, GraalVM reachability metadata 1.0.5, and ngx-translate 18

📊 By the numbers

• 515 closed issues and pull requests since 9.1.0 (full list)
• 7 human contributors helped ship this release
• Toolchain updates include Spring Boot 4.0.7, Node.js 24.18.0, Gradle 9.6.1, and webpack-dev-server 6

🔧 More changes

🔧 Core generator, testing, and code quality

• Sonar: Replace this fixed wait with a synchronization on an observable condition (#34033) @qmonmert
• chore(deps): update dependency graalvm-reachability-metadata to v1.0.5 (#34026) @renovate[bot]
• Simplify EJS templates (#33973) @qmonmert
• ESLint: enable and configure @typescript-eslint/no-unused-vars (#34004) @qmonmert

What's changed

🌟 Highlights

🍃 Spring Boot and security

• Spring Boot 4.0.6 (#33553) - latest Spring Boot version for generated applications
• Configuration sanitization for hardening (#32708) - tighter handling of generated configuration
• JWT credentials fix (#33479) - fixes SecurityUtils.getCurrentUserJWT for JWT credentials

🅰️ Angular

• OnPush change detection everywhere (#33218) - all generated components now use ChangeDetectionStrategy.OnPush
• Rewritten service worker provider (#33329) - cleaner service worker setup in generated apps
• SSR-safe html lang updates (#33330) - uses inject(DOCUMENT) for server-safe language updates

⚛️ React

• Jest to Vitest migration (#33200) - generated React apps now use Vitest
• react-top-loading-bar (#33039) - replaces react-redux-loading-bar
• User management reducer fix (#33555) - fixes errorMessage handling

🟩 Vue

• @module-federation/vite (#33283) - Vue microfrontends now use the Vite integration
• rsbuild microfrontends by default (#33455) - rsbuild is now the default for generated Vue microfrontends
• Gateway resources through module federation (#33485) - exposes and loads gateway resources through module federation
• Stale auth token cleanup (#33503) - removes outdated authentication tokens from storage

🧩 Internal improvements

• Improved TypeScript support (#33332, #33096) - each generator exports its own types, and new blueprints are generated in TypeScript
• CI/CD generator split (#33398, #33388) - moves commands into ci-cd and ci-cd:common
• Typed generator utilities (#33352, #33351, #33391) - more typed helpers and better writeFiles inference

🤖 AI and generator workflow

• AGENTS.md and AI assistant disclosure policy (#33130) - documents expectations for AI-assisted contributions

📊 By the numbers

• 878 closed issues and pull requests since 9.0.0 (full list)
• Toolchain updates include Node.js 24.16.0, Gradle 9.5.1, and Maven 3.9.16

🔧 More changes

🔧 Core generator and templates

• Fix CLI filename: cli/jhipster.cjs (#33526) @qmonmert
• TextBlob fake data not loading properly (#33523) [@qmonmert](https://githu

We're pumped to announce the official release of JHipster 9.0.0! 🎉

Highlights

• Spring Boot 4 support
• React 19 with react-bootstrap (replacing reactstrap)
• Angular 21 with zoneless by default, Vitest support, and signals migration
• Vue with Bootstrap 5 (Bootstrap Vue Next)
• GraalVM native image support
• Java 21 minimum required (dropped Java 17)
• Node 22 minimum required (dropped Node 20)
• Complete TypeScript rewrite of the generator codebase

Thanks to our amazing community for all the feedback during the beta releases!

What's Changed

🍃 Spring Boot

• spring-boot: re-add in-memory user credentials to application config (#32282) @mshima
• spring-boot: fix sonar properties (#32253) @mshima
• spring-boot: re-add application-tls to sonar ignored rule (#32235) @mshima
• spring-boot: move oauth2 configuration to secret-samples (#32550) @mshima
• spring-boot: move sensitive data to application-secret-samples.yml (#32218) @mshima
• Add default user and admin credentials to application properties (#32389) @mshima
• fix(kubernetes): generate Helm 3-only apply script and docs (#32494) @yuliuyi717-ux
• kafka: don't start kafka in backend tests (#32388) @mshima
• kafka: split kafka configuration (#32090) @mshima

🖥️ Frontend

• feat(react): upgrade to React 19 and replace reactstrap with react-bootstrap (#32495) @sreeshanth-soma
• [React] Fix duplicate exports (#32642) @qmonmert
• [React] React Bootstrap: remove invalid prop 'navbar' (#32583) @qmonmert
• [React] Upgrade react-router (#32404) @qmonmert
• [React] Remove lodash (#32416) @qmonmert
• [React] Remove redux-mock-store (#32401) @qmonmert
• [React] Remove Loadable (#32398) @qmonmert
• [React] ESLint: Fix no-useless-escape rule (#32331) @qmonmert
• [Vue] 'any' overrides all other types in this union type (#32628) @qmonmert
• [Vue] ESLint 10 (#32368) @qmonmert
• [Vue] Remove numeral dependency (#32439) @qmonmert
• [Vue] Remove flush-promises dependency (#32438) @qmonmert
• [Angular] Bump ESLint 10 (#32582) @qmonmert
• angular: fix UserManagement menu translation (#32622) @mshima
• angular: move resource error handling to the service and replace authorities from UserManagement service (#32616) @mshima
• angular: use entities templates in UserManagement routes (#32597) @mshima
• fix(angular): prevent code injection via JDL pattern in generated TypeScript (#32601) @Mistz1
• [Angular] Use arrow functions directly in templates (#32614) @qmonmert
• [Angular] Fix: Prefer globalThis over window (#32608) @qmonmert
• [Angular] Remove withInterceptorsFromDi (#32609) @qmonmert
• angular: simplify entity service api (#32592) @mshima
• angular: convert filterOptions to signal (#32460) @mshima
• angular: fix resource in error state (#32459) @mshima
• angular: migrate entity list to httpResource based service (#32373) @mshima
• angular: simplify account service (#32360) @mshima
• [Angular] Imports specific components and not all NgbModule (#32443) @qmonmert
• [Angular] Remove unused dependency: @angular/platform-browser-dynamic (#32418) @qmonmert
• [Angular] Remove unused dependency: buffer (#32417) @qmonmert
• [Angular] Remove ChangeDetectorRef, not useful with Signals (#32437) @qmonmert
• [Angular] Remove enableProdMode (#32497) @qmonmert
• client: add getPageNumberFromLinkHeader and parseLinkHeader to common (#31865) @mshima
• client: fix translation when executing entity command (#32314) @mshima

🧪 Cypress

• cypress: fix coverage (#32415) @mshima
• cypress: add type to username and password variables (#32414) @mshima
• cypress: credentials adjusts (#32338) @mshima
• cypress: disable cypressAudit by default (#32312) @mshima
• cypress: replace nested get with find, get always traverses from root (#32600) @mshima
• cypress: enable UserManagement for React and Vue (#32538) @mshima
• cypress: enable tests for UserManagement entity (#32419) @mshima
• Fix: Cypr