diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-devtools/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/devtools/restart/classloader/RestartClassLoader.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-devtools/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/devtools/restart/classloader/RestartClassLoader.java
index 1edc0641f575..3ec58716ae96 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-devtools/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/devtools/restart/classloader/RestartClassLoader.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-devtools/src/main/java/org/springframework/boot/devtools/restart/classloader/RestartClassLoader.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012-2020 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2012-2021 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 import java.net.URLClassLoader;
 import java.security.AccessController;
 import java.security.PrivilegedAction;
+import java.security.ProtectionDomain;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
 
 import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
@@ -167,6 +168,11 @@ protected Class<?> findClass(String name) throws ClassNotFoundException {
 		});
 	}
 
+	@Override
+	public Class<?> publicDefineClass(String name, byte[] b, ProtectionDomain protectionDomain) {
+		return defineClass(name, b, 0, b.length, protectionDomain);
+	}
+
 	private URL createFileUrl(String name, ClassLoaderFile file) {
 		try {
 			return new URL("reloaded", null, -1, "/" + name, new ClassLoaderFileURLStreamHandler(file));
diff --git a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-devtools/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/devtools/restart/classloader/RestartClassLoaderTests.java b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-devtools/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/devtools/restart/classloader/RestartClassLoaderTests.java
index 06136002702a..63ec38d2bae1 100644
--- a/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-devtools/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/devtools/restart/classloader/RestartClassLoaderTests.java
+++ b/spring-boot-project/spring-boot-devtools/src/test/java/org/springframework/boot/devtools/restart/classloader/RestartClassLoaderTests.java
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * Copyright 2012-2020 the original author or authors.
+ * Copyright 2012-2021 the original author or authors.
  *
  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.Enumeration;
+import java.util.HashMap;
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.jar.JarOutputStream;
 import java.util.zip.ZipEntry;
@@ -34,6 +35,7 @@
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.io.TempDir;
 
+import org.springframework.aop.framework.ProxyFactory;
 import org.springframework.boot.devtools.restart.classloader.ClassLoaderFile.Kind;
 import org.springframework.util.FileCopyUtils;
 import org.springframework.util.StreamUtils;
@@ -200,6 +202,14 @@ void getAddedClass() throws Exception {
 		assertThat(loaded.getClassLoader()).isEqualTo(this.reloadClassLoader);
 	}
 
+	@Test
+	void proxyOnClassFromSystemClassLoaderDoesNotYieldWarning() {
+		ProxyFactory pf = new ProxyFactory(new HashMap<>());
+		pf.setProxyTargetClass(true);
+		pf.getProxy(this.reloadClassLoader);
+		// Yield the warning but CapturedOutput does not give access to it
+	}
+
 	private String readString(InputStream in) throws IOException {
 		return new String(FileCopyUtils.copyToByteArray(in));
 	}