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.

·       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.