In our project, we have close to around 200 spring boot microservices. We are in the process of fixing the Open source vulnerabilities for these microservices. Our microservices are spring boot based and the version that is currently available is 2.3.X. While upgrading the spring boot parent version, I have the below queries

1. When upgrading the spring boot version, Is there any guiding principle based on which we need to select the version of spring boot. Currently when I checked the mvn repository for spring boot parent, the latest version available is 3.0. Can I directly update to the latest version ? or is there any parameters to be considered while selecting the latest version
2. In our project, We also have the spring cloud dependencies, I checked the spring site(