Spring boot 2.0 features unveiled by the spring.io team. This announcement was the first ever major revision on Spring Boot since 1.0 was released almost 4 years ago. It’s also the first GA version of Spring Boot that provides support for Spring Framework 5.0.
Spring boot 2.0 upgrades:
Spring Boot 2.0 builds on and requires Spring Framework 5. They also upgraded to the latest stable releases of other third-party jars wherever possible. Some notable dependency upgrades in this release include:
- Tomcat 8.5
- Flyway 5
- Hibernate 5.2
- Thymeleaf 3
Spring boot 2 new features list
- A Java 8 baseline, and Java 9 support.
- Reactive web programming support with Spring WebFlux/WebFlux.fn.
- Auto-configuration and starter POMs for reactive Spring Data Cassandra, MongoDB, Couchbase and Redis.
- Support for embedded Netty.
- HTTP/2 for Tomcat, Undertow, and Jetty.
Kotlin support. - A brand new actuator architecture, with support for Spring MVC, WebFlux and Jersey.
Micrometer based metrics with exporters for Atlas, Datadog, Ganglia, Graphite, Influx, JMX, New Relic, Prometheus, SignalFx, StatsD, and Wavefront. - Quartz scheduler support.
- Greatly simplified security auto-configuration.