Align Maven version in system requirements with what is actually tested

[snicoll]

Hi, this is a first-timers-only issue. This means we've worked to make it more legible to folks who either haven't contributed to our codebase before, or even folks who haven't contributed to open source before.

If that's you, we're interested in helping you take the first step and can answer questions and help you out as you do. Note that we're especially interested in contributions from people from groups underrepresented in free and open source software!

If you have contributed before, consider leaving this one for someone new, and looking through our general ideal-for-contribution issues. Thanks!

Problem

The documentation that lists the supported Maven versions states that Spring Boot supports Maven 3.3 and later. While we don't expect this to be problematic, our Maven Plugin is only tested as of Maven 3.5 onwards.

Solution

The documentation should be updated to changes the version from 3.3.+ to 3.5.+. This should be done in spring-boot-project/spring-boot-docs/src/docs/asciidoc/getting-started.adoc.

Steps to Fix

• Claim this issue with a comment below and ask any clarifying questions you need
• Set up a repository locally following the Contributing Guidelines
• Try to fix the issue following the steps above
• Commit your changes and start a pull request.

[zoosm3]

Hello, I am interested in the contribution.
Is that only document fix? Or should we modify source code?

[snicoll]

Hello @zoosm3, the issue is all yours. The Solution describes what needs to be done and it is a documentation fix, indeed.

[zoosm3]

Hello @snicoll, thank you very much for your reply and giving me the opportunity. I just opened #26209.

[snicoll]

Great. Closing in favor of #26209