Dependency management for ANTLR 2 is introduced in #2814 to solve conflicts of Hibernate and Velocity. However, it is unnecessary in Spring Boot 3.0 because of following reasons:

  • Velocity is not supported since Spring Boot 1.5.
  • Hibernate 6.1.1.Final use ANTLR 4.

Comment From: wilkinsona

Thanks very much, @hak7a3.