Release 1.6 contains major dependency updates and drops support for Spring Boot 1.x.

Improvements

Move afterburner registration to dedicated method to better support frameworks that want to use the module in GraalVM (#369 - thanks to @geoand)
Improved extensibility to allow other servlets besides Spring DispatcherServlet (#399)
Fixed build process with latest Gradle version and JDK 11

Dependencies

Spring Boot 1.x is no longer supported (was already deprecated in a previous release), please migrate to Spring Boot 2.x https://spring.io/blog/2019/08/06/it-is-time-goodbye-spring-boot-1-x (#419)
Update to Spring Framework 5.3.9, Spring Security 5.5.1 and Spring Boot 2.5.3
Update to Apache HttpComponents Core 4.14.4 - This is now declared as an optional dependency and only used by AwsProxyRequestBuilder (#394)
Update to Apache HttpComponents Client 4.5.13
Update to Struts 2.56 (#395 - thanks to @jogep)
Update to SLF4J 1.7.32
Update to Log4J 2.14.1
Update to JUnit 4.13.2
Update to Jackson 2.12.4
Update to Sparkjava 2.9.3
Update to aws-lambda-core 1.2.1
Update to Jersey 2.34
Update to Hibernate Validator 5.4.3/ 6.1.7